tandoor
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Noun — A round clay oven used across the Caucasus, the Middle East and South Asia for baking flatbread and cooking meat.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani तंदूर (tandūr), also written تندور (tandūr), which came from Classical Persian تنور (tannūr), from Middle Persian tnwl (/tanūr/), meaning “oven”, ultimately from Akkadian tinūru — all of these meaning “(clay) oven” (compare also Avestan tanūra). It is a doublet of athanor.
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