Naan vs. Paratha

Naannoun

A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

Naan

Naan (Persian: نان‎, romanized: nān, Pashto : نان Dari: نان, Punjabi: ਨਾਨ, Hindi: नान, Bengali: নান) is a leavened, oven-baked flatbread found in the cuisines mainly of Western Asia, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Caribbean.

Parathanoun

an Indian bread with a texture somewhat resembling puff pastry; sometimes stuffed with vegetables etc.

Paratha

A paratha (pronounced [pəˈrɑːtʰə]) is a flatbread native to the Indian subcontinent, prevalent throughout the modern-day nations of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Myanmar, where wheat is the traditional staple. Paratha is an amalgamation of the words parat and atta, which literally means layers of cooked dough.