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tandoor
Tandoor (noun) means a round clay oven used across the Caucasus, the Middle East and South Asia for baking flatbread and cooking meat.
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A round clay oven used across the Caucasus, the Middle East and South Asia for baking flatbread and cooking meat.
"You can cook naan in a normal oven, but the results will inevitably disappoint; even Indians generally wait to savour them in restaurants, as very few homes are equipped with a tandoor."
— Martin Hughes, World Food: India (2001)
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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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"tandoor" (noun) means a round clay oven used across the Caucasus, the Middle East and South Asia for baking flatbread and cooking meat.
