Tanur
/təˈnʊər/noun
A traditional oven, especially one used for baking flatbread or cooking food.
Did you know?The word ultimately appears in Akkadian as tinūru, linking the modern tanur to oven technology documented in ancient Mesopotamia thousands of years ago.
Etymological Timeline
2nd millennium BCE
Akkadian
tinūru
“Oven or furnace, especially a clay baking oven”
Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew
תַּנּוּר (tannūr)
“Oven or portable hearth”
Late Antiquity
Aramaic
תנורא (tanūrā)
“Oven or furnace”
Classical and Medieval Arabic
Arabic
تَنُّور (tannūr)
“Clay oven or furnace”
Medieval Persian
Persian
تنور (tanūr)
“Oven, especially a cylindrical clay oven”
Modern English
English
tanur
“A variant spelling of tannur or tandoor”