Tannour
/təˈnʊər/noun
A traditional cylindrical oven, especially one heated by charcoal or wood and used for baking flatbread.
Did you know?Tannour is a variant transliteration of the same ancient Near Eastern word behind tandoor, linking modern kitchens to ovens known from antiquity.
Etymological Timeline
2nd Millennium BCE
Akkadian
tinūru
“A kiln or oven; often identified as an early written form related to the later Semitic oven word.”
1st Millennium BCE
Aramaic
tannūrā
“An oven, especially a fixed cylindrical oven used for baking.”
Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew
תַּנּוּר (tannūr)
“A furnace or oven; the term appears in descriptions of intense heat and baking.”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
تَنُّور (tannūr)
“A traditional oven, commonly a clay or earthenware baking oven.”
19th–20th Century
English
tannour
“An English transliteration and variant spelling for the traditional Near Eastern oven.”