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Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabicتنّور(tannūr). Cognate with Englishtandoor, Hebrewתנור(tanúr), all ultimately from Akkadian𒋾𒂟(tinūru), meaning (clay) oven. According to the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the Akkadian word consists of the parts tin meaning "mud" and nuro/nura meaning "fire" and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh.
Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “tenûr”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 605