নানখাতাই
Bengali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian نَانِ خَطَائِی (nān-i xatā'ī, “Cathayan bread, bread of Cathay”).[1]
Noun
[edit]নানখাতাই • (nankhatai)
References
[edit]- ^ 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.