leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
naan
How to use naan in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for naan.
Editorial note
> The best naan is to be had in Japan O_o
Quick take
leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for naan.
noun
leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
See also: nan
Example sentences
> The best naan is to be had in Japan O_o
BTW: how many people here know the words awn, naan and alb?
For 50 bucks u get 2 plain naan on road side dhaba in Maharashtra
The rice and naan isn't going to help one bit with your weight loss, and curry is boring without them.
The naan in Japan is also much better than the naan in India.
People are making bread, pizza, naan, waffles, all sorts of things. I don't think this is people buying flour who aren't going to bake with it.
Except for the foil wrapped naan. Toasting it briefly sometimes helps...
My local Kurdish naan bakery makes barley naans. They're rather tasty, and a third the price of the wheat ones.
At least it's closer than calling you "naan" or "non". ;P As far as I can tell, the best spelling to get people to say your name correctly is probably "nyen".
Then before I'm packing up to go home, I'm gonna text "Get me a lamb korma, hot, and some naan from Little Delhi, cost + $12 for delivery is fine". Then they're gonna say "ok, btw total is $25".
Probably not the answer you’re expecting but damn I love avocado toast, pizza, naan, french toast, burger, croissants and any form of bread. I don’t care if I die a few years early, I love bread.
The cybermart description matches exactly my memory of Sim Lim Square from when I lived in Singapore, except that place is immense and you could get the best naan you've ever had in the basement.
We also have 'naan bread' and 'lentil dal'... I might sympathise with the former if we also said 'ciabatta bread' and 'brioche bread', etc. but we don't, for whatever reason it's unique to naan.
Is there a 3rd source of user-specific features that are only sometimes used because DD knows what places I order from often and suggests them but can’t seem to remember that I always order roti and not naan when making suggestions. Is it a performance thing where user-specific lookups are costly?
The same happens in Japan: expensive but every bar has a wood fired pizza oven, every Indian restarsunt has a wood fired naan oven, ... The food is just so good there, they don't cut corners at all.
I doubt the place I'm thinking of is still in the basement of SLS, since that was more than a decade ago, but they advertised "Pakistani-Afghanistan" food and the big burly guy who punched the naan then threw it directly into the tandoor. In addition to Singapore and Japan, I've also had naan in India and many other places... Eventually I'll have my own tandoor. Even if I'd missed the naan in Japan, my experience with Japanese Mexican food alone would have left me somewhat skeptical of your claim.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use naan in a sentence?
> The best naan is to be had in Japan O_o
What does naan mean?
leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
What part of speech is naan?
naan is commonly used as noun.