# نان
## Baluchi
### Etymology

From Persian نان (nân); compare the native doublet نگن (nagan).

### Noun

نان • (nán)
* bread

### See also

* نگن (nagan)

## Central Kurdish
### Alternative forms

* نیان (niyan)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naːn/

### Verb

نان (nan) (present stem نێ- (nê-))
* (transitive) to put

#### Conjugation
### Noun

نان (nan)
* bread

## Chagatai
### Etymology

From Persian نان (nân).

### Noun

نان (nān) (plural نانلار)
* bread

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: نان (nan)
* Uzbek: non

## Laki
### Noun

نان (nan)
* bread

## Malay
### Noun

نان (plural نان-نان or نان۲, informal 1st possessive نانکو, 2nd possessive نانمو, 3rd possessive نانڽ)
* Jawi spelling of nana‎

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نان (nân).

### Noun

نان • (nan)
* bread
    Synonyms: اكمك (ekmek), خبز (hubz)
* (in general) food
* (by extension) livelihood

#### Descendants

* Turkish: nan

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, Vienna, columns 5119–5120
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2070

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* نون (nun) (Tehrani)

### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [nɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [nɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [nɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [nɒːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [nɒːn]
** (Tehrani) IPA: [nuːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [nɔn]
* (Madaklashti) IPA: /nuːn/
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

| Dari | نان |
| Iranian Persian | نان |
| Tajik | нон |
نان • (nân) (plural نان‌ها (nân-hâ))
* 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 ریختhamčō dēw az way farišta mē-gurēxt bahr-i nān-ē čand āb čašm rēxtThe angels were fleeing from him [Adam] as from a devil: how many tears did he shed for the sake of a single loaf!
* (Dari, colloquial) any food
    Synonyms: (in Dari) غذا (ğizā), خوراک (xōrāk)

#### Descendants

* → 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

## Punjabi
### Etymology

From Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /näːn/

### Noun

نان • (nān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਨਾਨ)
* naan

#### Declension
## Sindhi
### Etymology

From Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [nɑːnʊ]

### Noun

نان • (nānu) m (Devanagari नानु)
* naan.

### References

* “نان”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /nɑːn/
* Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Noun

نان • (nān) f (Hindi spelling नान)
* naan, A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

## Uyghur
### Etymology

From Persian نان (nân).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɑn/

### Noun

نان • (nan) (plural نانلار (nanlar))
* naan, A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

#### Synonyms

* ئەتمەك (etmek)

#### Derived terms

* ئاق نان (aq nan)
* جۆۋەندە نان (jöwende nan)
* زاغرا نان (zaghra nan)
* نان - پان (nan - pan)
* نان ئوشتۇماق (nan oshtumaq)
* نان ئۇرماق (nan urmaq)
* نان ئۇۋىقى (nan uwiqi)
* نان بەرگەن قولنى چىشلىمەك (nan bergen qolni chishlimek)
* نان توغرىماق (nan toghrimaq)
* نان تېپىپ يىمەك (nan tëpip yimek)
* نان تەگمەك (nan tegmek)
* نان جىگدە (nan jigde)
* نان دەسسەپ بەرمەك (nan dessep bermek)
* نان زارلىق تارتماق (nan zarliq tartmaq)
* نان قومۇرماق (nan qomurmaq)
* نان كور (nan kor)
* نانقايناق (nanqaynaq)
* نانقېپى (nanqëpi)
* نېنى يوقنىڭ جېنى يوق (nëni yoqning jëni yoq)
* نېنى پۈتۈن (nëni pütün)
* پۈتۈن نان (pütün nan)

#### Descendants

* → Mandarin: 饢 / 馕 (náng)