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 نان۲, informal 1st possessive نانکو, 2nd possessive نانمو, 3rd possessive نانڽ)

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], 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).

Readings
Classical reading?	nān
Dari reading?	nān
Iranian reading?	nân
Tajik reading?	non

• (Madaklashti) IPA^(key): /nuːn/

• Audio (Iran):

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Dari	نان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	нон

نان • (nân) (plural نان‌ها (nân-hâ))

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 (ğizā), 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

Declension of نان
dir. sg.	نان (nān)
dir. pl.	نان (nān)
	singular	plural
direct	نان (nān)	نان (nān)
oblique	نان (nān)	ناناں (nānāṉ)
vocative	نانا (nānā)	نانو (nāno)
ablative	نانوں (nānoṉ)	ناناں (nānāṉ)
locative	نانے (nāne)	نانِیں (nānīṉ)
instrumental	نانوں (nānoṉ)	–

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)