নানখাতাই

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Bengali

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian نَانِ خَطَائِی (nān-i xatā'ī, Cathayan bread, bread of Cathay).[1]

Noun

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নানখাতাই (nankhatai)

  1. nankhatai

References

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  1. ^ Indian Antiquary[1], volume 60, 1931, page 213:
    The derivation from ‘K̲h̲aṭâî,’ of Cathay or China is correct. […] Recipes for making ‘Nuncaties’ are given in many Indian cookery books, but there is no special mention in any of them of Mr. Weir’s six ingredients; and ‘leaven produced from toddy’ does not, so far as I know, enter into the composition of these cakes at all.