bread, including the kind called naan in English and any other kind of bread · any food
çekim: çoğul نانها
köken: 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),…
köken: Inherited from Proto-South Dravidian *ñān. Cognates Cognate with Irula நா (nā), Old Kannada ನಾನ್ (nān), Kannada ನಾನು (nānu), Malayalam ഞാൻ (ñāṉ) and Telugu నా (nā), నేను (nēnu). Unrelated to Proto-Dravidian *yĀn, whose descendant is யான் (yāṉ). However, the oblique forms of this pronoun are suppleted from யான் (yāṉ). Compare the similar case of suppletion in நாங்கள் (nāṅkaḷ).
naan (a type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine)
çekim: tamlayan নানের
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian نان (nān), which is from Middle Persian LHMA (nān, “bread, food”), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *nagna-. Cognate with Sanskrit नग्नहु (nagnahu).