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A flat, leavened bread of northwest India, made of white flour and baked in a tandoor.

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Origin: Hindi nān, bread

Origin: , from Farsi

Origin: , ultimately from Old Persian *nagna, naked, bare (probably from being baked uncovered in an oven rather than covered in ash); see nog^w- in Indo-European roots

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