نان

From Persian نان (nân); compare the native doublet نگن (nagan).

نان • (nán)

1. bread

• نگن (nagan)

• نیان (niyan)

• IPA^(key): /naːn/

نان (nan) (present stem نێ- (nê-))

1. (transitive) to put

نان (nan)

1. bread

From Persian نان (nân).

نان (nān) (plural نانلار)

1. bread

• Uyghur: نان (nan)
• Uzbek: non

نان (nan)

1. bread

نان (plural نان-نان or نان٢)

1. Jawi spelling of nana.‎‎

Borrowed from Persian نان (nân).

نان • (nan)

1. bread

   Synonyms: اكمك (ekmek), خبز (hubz)

2. (in general) food
3. (by extension) livelihood

• Turkish: nan

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1267
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 5119–5120
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2070

• نون (nun) (Tehrani)

From Middle Persian LHMA (nān, “bread, food”), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *nagna- (“naked bread (bread that was baked without ash)”) (antonym: *nikāna- "buried bread (bread that was baked in ash)".

Compare Sogdian [script needed] (nγn- /⁠naγn⁠/, “bread”), Manichaean Parthian ngn (naγn), Khotanese [script needed] (nāṃji), Northern Kurdish nan, Zazaki nan, Central Kurdish نان (nan), Northern Luri نۆ (nø), Baluchi نگن (nagan), Pashto نغن (naγan), Laki نان (nan), Natanzi نون (nun), Gurani [script needed] (nāna), [script needed] (nān, “bread, food”), Sanskrit नग्नहु (nagnahu), and possibly the Old Armenian loanword նկան (nkan).

• (Madaklashti) IPA^(key): /nuːn/

• Audio (Iran):

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نان • (nân) (plural نان‌ها)

1. bread, including the kind called naan in English and any other kind of bread

   نان بربری ― nân-e barbari ― barbari bread

   نان تافتان ― nân-e tâftân ― taftoon bread

   نان سنگک ― nân-e sangak ― sangak bread

   نان لواش ― nân-e lavâš ― lavash bread

   نان تست ― nân-e tost ― American-style bread for toasting

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 16:

     همچو دیو از وی فرشته میگریخت
     بهر نانی چند آب چشم ریخت

     hamčō dēw az way farišta mē-gurēxt
     bahr-i nān-ē čand āb čašm rēxt

     The angels were fleeing from him [Adam] as from a devil:
     how many tears did he shed for the sake of a single loaf!

2. (Dari, colloquial) any food

   Synonyms: (in Dari) غذا (ġizā), خوراک (xōrāk)

• → Baluchi: نان (nán) (reborrowing)
• → Bengali: নান (nan)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नान (nān)

  Urdu: نان (nān)

  • • → Burmese: နံပြား (nampra:)
    • → English: naan
    • → Thai: นาน (naan)
• → Kazakh: нан (nan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: نان (nan)
  • Turkish: nan
• → Pashto: نان (nān) (reborrowing)
• → Punjabi: ਨਾਨ (nān)
• → Sindhi: نان (nānu)
• → Uyghur: نان (nan)
  • → Mandarin: 饢 / 馕 (náng)
• → Uzbek: non

From Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread”).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /näːn/

نان • (nān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਾਨ)

1. naan

From Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread”).

• IPA^(key): [nɑːnʊ]

نان • (nānu) m (Devanagari नानु)

1. naan

• “نان”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

From Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

نان • (nān) f (Hindi spelling नान)

1. naan, A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

From Persian نان (nân).

• IPA^(key): /nɑn/

نان • (nan) (plural نانلار (nanlar))

1. naan, A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

• ئەتمەك (etmek)

• → Mandarin: 饢 / 馕 (náng)