Etymology

naan

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Today it means: A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine. Full definition →

Hindi नान ← Urdu نان ← Classical Persian نان
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The story

  1. Middle Persian · derived fromLHMA“bread, food”
  2. Classical Persian · derived fromنان
  3. Urdu · borrowed fromنان
  4. Hindi · borrowed fromनान
  5. English todaynaan

From Hindi नान (nān) / Urdu نان (nān), from Classical Persian نان (nān), from Middle Persian LHMA (nān, “bread, food”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.