tandoor
/tænˈdʊə(ɹ)/
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tandoor noun: a cylindrical clay oven used in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent to make flat bread or to cook meat.
Noun
tandoor (plural tandoors)
- A cylindrical clay oven used in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent to make flat bread or to cook 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.2001, Martin Hughes, World Food: India, Lonely Planet, page 53
tandoor meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
tandoor in Hindi
- cylindrical clay oven
- तन्दूर tandūr, तनूर tanūr
tandoor in Marathi
- cylindrical clay oven
- तन्दूर tandūr
tandoor in Urdu
- cylindrical clay oven
- تندور tandūr, تنور tanūr
tandoor in Bengali
- cylindrical clay oven
- তন্দুর tondur
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- tandoor in Punjabi
- ਤੰਦੂਰ tandūr
- tandoor in Gujarati
- તંદૂર tandūr
- tandoor in Arabic
- تَنُّور tannūr
- tandoor in Persian
- تنور tanur
Forms of tandoor
| plural | tandoors |
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Origin of tandoor
Borrowed from Hindustani तंदूर (tandūr) / تندور (tandūr), from Classical Persian تنور (tannūr), from Middle Persian [script needed] (tnwl /tanūr/, “oven”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒋾𒂟 (tinūru), all meaning "(clay) oven". Compare also Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬥𐬏𐬭𐬀 (tanūra). Doublet of athanor.
Words that rhyme with tandoor
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- muir
- obscure
- amour
- assure
- boor
- immure
- impure
- lure
- recure
- immature
- inure
- manure
- moor
- cour
- Darfur
- demure
- du jour
- fure
- insecure
- liqueur
- mure
- reassure
- roture
- Ruhr
- unsure
- adure
- allure
- bonheur du jour
- bonjour
- brochure
- bure
- chaussure
- combure
- couture
- de jour
- dhuhr
- dure
- guipure
- Kapur
- L'Anse Amour
- Namur
- parkour
- parure
- plat du jour
- poseur
- purpure
- smoor
- soup du jour
Questions about tandoor
- What does tandoor mean?
- Tandoor means a cylindrical clay oven used in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent to make flat bread or to cook meat.
- What is tandoor in Hindi?
- Tandoor in Hindi is तन्दूर (tandūr), तनूर (tanūr). See Tandoor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tandoor?
- Tandoor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tandoor?
- Tandoor is pronounced /tænˈdʊə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of tandoor?
- The plural of tandoor is tandoors.
Words near tandoor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tandoor (page history and authors); તંદૂર (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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