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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/#x1)
- We ordered two garlic naans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/#x2)
- Naan is baked inside a hot clay oven called a tandoor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/#x3)
- Dad made pizza on naan bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/#x4)
- The naan was warm and buttery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/#x5)
- Would you like rice or naan with your meal? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/naan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.