naan

«naan» in Mova's school dictionary: a soft, flat bread, often shaped like a teardrop, baked… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a naan, naans; also nan, naan bread)

meaning for a pupil

Naan is a soft, flat bread, often shaped like a teardrop, baked in a hot oven, eaten with curry in Indian, Pakistani and other South Asian food. tree →

sense in the lessons

In food and culture lessons: foods from around the world. In everyday life (UK, Ireland, Australia): ordering naan with a takeaway curry; garlic naan, peshwari naan.

examples

• I dipped my naan in the curry. tree →
• We ordered two garlic naans. tree →
• Naan is baked inside a hot clay oven called a tandoor. tree →
• Dad made pizza on naan bread. tree →
• The naan was warm and buttery. tree →
• Would you like rice or naan with your meal? tree →

note

Also spelled «nan». Trap: «nan» or «nana» is also an informal UK word for grandmother; context tells you which. Countable (two naans) or uncountable (some naan).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «naan» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.