naans
SayNAHNZUS/nɑnz/UK/nɑːnz/
- 1Plural of naan.
The restaurant served warm naans alongside bowls of spicy lentils.
Stacks of fresh naans were piled high at one end of the buffet.
Note
A regular English plural for a borrowed word: the -s simply counts the round, flat loaves baked in a tandoor. Use it when the breads are separate items, as in stacks of fresh naans on a buffet. In source languages such as Hindi and Urdu the word often works as a mass noun with no distinct plural, much as English treats bread.
naans is a form of naan
naan, noun: A round flatbread of South and Central Asian cooking, traditionally baked in a tandoor. Full entry
- Forms
- naan also pluralnaans plural
- Spelling
- naan → naans: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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