tandoor
pronunciation
How to pronounce tandoor in British English:
UK [tæn'dɔ:r]
How to pronounce tandoor in American English:
US [tæn'dɔr]
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- Noun:
- a clay oven used in northern India and Pakistan
Word Origin
- tandoor (n.)
- 1660s, from Turkish pronunciation of Persian and Arabic tannur "oven, portable furnace" (see tandoori).
Example
- 1. A woman showed me how to slap the dough on the searing inner wall of a clay tandoor oven . The moghuls carried the tandoor from central asia to india in their 16th-century invasion .