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Chapati

2 stages from Sanskrit/Hindi to English.

Today it means a thin, round, unleavened flatbread from South Asia, cooked on a griddle
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Stage 1 of 2
capat
Sanskrit/Hindi · medieval
"flat"
flat, describing an unleavened round flatbread cooked on a griddle
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Stage 2 of 2
chapati
English · 1810s
"an unleavened South Asian flatbread"
adopted directly for the South Asian unleavened flatbread
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