tan·door (tän-dŏŏr') n.
pl.tan·doors or tan·door·i (-dŏŏr'ē) A cylindrical oven made of clay, heated to a high heat over charcoal or wood, and used in India for baking bread and roasting meat.
[Hindi and Urdu tandūr, from Persian, variant of tannūr, from Middle Persian, from Arabic, from Akkadian tinūru, oven.]
tan·door·i (tän-dŏŏr'ē) adj. Cooked in a tandoor.
[Hindi tandūri, from tandūr, tandoor; see tandoor.]
type of Indian cooking, 1958, from adj. form of Urdu or Punjabi tandur "cooking stove," from Turk. tandur, from Turk. pronunciation of Arabic and Pers. tannur "oven, portable furnace," of Sem. origin.