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nān[Parsī, and Pehl. darūn; Zend draonaṅh; cf. S. िोण], s.f. Bread; a cake of bread; a loaf (syn. roṭī):—nān-ě-ābī, Bread kneaded with water:—nān-bā, or nān-bā`ī, or nān-paz, s.m. A baker:—nān-pazī, s.f. Baking; trade of a baker:—nān-ḵẖat̤ā`ī, s.f. A kind of sweetmeat:—nān-ḵẖẉurish, s.f. Meat or fish dressed with condiments (i.e. curry of meat or fish) and eaten with bread (cf. sālan); anything eaten with bread for creating an appetite and promoting digestion:—nān-dihī, s.f. The giving. of bread:—nān-ě-rauganī, Bread mixed with or dipped into boiled butter;—buttered toast:—nān-kār, s.m. Maintenanceallowance; an allowance of money or land to zamīṅdārs, chowdries, qānūn-gos, etc. as a maintenance;—land granted to servants for their subsistence:—nān-kārī, adj. Of or belonging to nān-kār; for maintenance:—nān-ě-němat, A kind of bread:—nān-ě-nahārī, Breakfast:—nān-wā, s.m. A baker (i.q. nānbā):—nān-wā`ī, s.f. =nān-pazī, q.v.:—nān-onafaqa, s.m. Maintenance.
Origin: Persian