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naan

[nahn]
–noun
a leavened, often tear-shaped flatbread of India, baked in a tandoor.
Also, nan.
naan or nan   (nän, nān)   
n.  A flat, leavened bread of northwest India, made of white flour and baked in a tandoor.

[Hindi nān, bread, from Farsi, ultimately from Old Persian *nagna, naked, bare (probably from being baked uncovered in an oven rather than covered in ash); see nogw- in Indo-European roots.]
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