flatbread

English

Flatbreads

Alternative forms

• flat bread

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *flataz

Old Norse flatrbor.

Middle English flat

English flat

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.?

Proto-Germanic *braudą

Proto-West Germanic *braud

Old English brēad

Middle English bred

English bread

English flatbread

From flat + bread.

Pronunciation

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Noun

flatbread (countable and uncountable, plural flatbreads)

1. A thin, flat bread, often made from unleavened dough.
   • 2026 March 15, Genevieve Ko, “‘This Is the Best Dish I Have Ever Made From NYT Cooking’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 March 2026:

     The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread.

Hyponyms

• crispbread
• focaccia
• lavash
• matzo
• naan
• paratha
• pita
• pupusa
• tortilla

Derived terms

• Ethiopian flat bread
• Scandinavian flat bread

Translations

thin, flat bread

• Arabic: قُرْصَة (qurṣa)
• Azerbaijani: yuxa, yayma
• Basque: ogi zapal
• Catalan: pa pla m, fogassa (ca) f
• Dutch: platbrood n
• Finnish: ohutleipä
• French: pain plat m
• German: Fladenbrot (de) n
• Greek: πιτόψωμο n (pitópsomo), πίτα (el) f (píta)
• Ingrian: kakku
• Italian: pane basso m
• Kaitag: бурз (burz)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nanê tenkî (ku), nanê sêlê (ku)

• Kyrgyz: токоч (ky) (tokoc)
• Latin: laganum n
• Norwegian: flatbrød n
• Polish: chleb w kształcie placka m, podpłomyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: pão folha m, pão achatado m
• Russian: лепёшка (ru) f (lepjóška)
• Spanish: pan plano m, pan ázimo m, ázimo m, ácimo (es) m, pan ácimo m, pan sin levadura m
• Swedish: tunnbröd (sv) n, plattbröd n
• Turkish: yufka (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: یوفقه (yufka)

• Ukrainian: корж (uk) m (korž)

See also

• azyme

Anagrams

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