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tandoori

/tænˈdʊəɹi/US/tænˈdʊɹi/

tandoori adjective: cooked in a tandoor.

tandoori: cooked in a tandoor
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Adjective

tandoori (not comparable)

  1. Cooked in a tandoor.

Noun

tandoori (plural tandooris)

  1. A dish that was cooked in a tandoor.
  2. (UK, informal) A curry meal.
    • Call me when you get in and invite me out for a tandoori — Oh, and by the way, Jude e-mailed to say she's still having a ball with Marcus and everything's as sweet as a nut.2004 10, Terence Strong, Cold Monday, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 135
    • Having a relaxing stress-free pint with my fiancée, going for a tandoori afterwards and hoping that she'll come back to my place for B and B, or who knows, maybe even invite me to hers.'2010 January 7, Quintin Jardine, Gallery Whispers (Bob Skinner series, Book 9): A gritty Edinburgh crime thriller, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 64
  3. (UK, informal) An Indian restaurant, especially one with a tandoor.
    • He's done those lads at a tandoori when they started giving him grief.1991 03, Punch
    • Now, of course, there is a tandoori in every high street (and a balti and a Thai takeaway as well); proving, if proof were needed, that people's tastes even in conservative Britain are nothing like so conservative as is often supposed.2004 August 26, Colin Tudge, So Shall We Reap: What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food - and How to Fix it, Penguin UK, →ISBN

tandoori meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

tandoori in Hindi

dish that was cooked in a tandoor
तंदूरी tandūrī, तन्दूरी tandūrī

tandoori in Tamil

தந்தூரி உணவு வகை

tandoori in Urdu

dish that was cooked in a tandoor
تندوری tandūrī

tandoori in Bengali

dish that was cooked in a tandoor
তন্দুরি tonduri
More languagesFewer languages
tandoori in Punjabi
ਤੰਦੂਰੀ tandūrī
tandoori in Malay
tanduri
tandoori in Persian
تنوری tanuri

Examples of tandoori in a sentence

  • 'Let's go down the Shahbag for a tandoori!'2013 February 4, Jacky Hyams, White Boots & Miniskirts - A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties: The follow up to Bombsites and...
  • A sandwich at three, and dinner out at a tandoori this evening.2014 September 11, Stanley Middleton, An After-Dinner’s Sleep, Random House, →ISBN:

Forms of tandoori

pluraltandooris

Origin of tandoori

Borrowed from Hindustani तन्दूरी (tandūrī) / تندوری (tandūrī), from Classical Persian تنوری (tanūrī).

Questions about tandoori

What does tandoori mean?
Tandoori means cooked in a tandoor.
What is tandoori in Hindi?
Tandoori in Hindi is तंदूरी (tandūrī), तन्दूरी (tandūrī). See Tandoori meaning in Hindi.
How do you use tandoori in a sentence?
'Let's go down the Shahbag for a tandoori!'
What part of speech is tandoori?
Tandoori can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce tandoori?
Tandoori is pronounced /tænˈdʊɹi/ (US).

Words near tandoori in the dictionary

  1. Tandil
  2. Tandoc
  3. Tandon
  4. Tandons
  5. tandoor
  6. tandoori
  7. tandooris
  8. tandoors
  9. tandospirone
  10. Tandragee
  11. Tandridge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tandoori (page history and authors); tandoori (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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