an oven, originally in India, made of clay and capable of high temperatures, for fast cooking or baking
Origin of tandoor
Hindi, clay oven from Turkish tandur from Arabic tann?r, portable oven, ultimately from Akkadian tin?rutandoor
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tandoor
noun
pl. tan·doors, or tan·door·iA cylindrical oven made of clay, heated over charcoal or wood, and used in South Asia and Central Asia for baking bread and roasting meat.
Origin of tandoor
HindiUrdu tandūr from Persian tanūr, tundūr oven from Middle Persian tanūr from Old Iranian tanūra- Aramaic tannūrā Akkadian tinūru and Sumerian duruna all probably from a substrate source in southwest AsiaTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural tandoors)
Origin
From Hindustani तनà¥à¤¦à¥‚र (tandÅ«r) / تندور (tandÅ«r), from Persian تنور (tanur), from Middle Persian tnwl (tanÅ«r, “oven"), ultimately from Akkadian [script?] (tinÅ«ru)[script?], all meaning oven.
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Sentence Examples
- It's cooked in a Tandoor; a clay pot whose internal temperature can reach upwards to 600.
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