nankhatai

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindustani नानख़टाई (nānxaṭāī)/نان خَطائی (nān xatāī), from Classical Persian نَانِ خَطَائِی (nān-i xatā'ī, “Cathayan bread, bread of Cathay”).[1]

Noun

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nankhatai (plural nankhatais)

  1. Shortbread biscuit popular in the Indian subcontinent.

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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.
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