[Vocabulary] dried peas

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It's a kind of peas which is dried in front of heat or fire and people use it among nuts.
 

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What is your question?
 

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I don't know what the name of 'dried chickpeas' is. Here they are called 'spiced roasted chickpeas' but I think there might be a simpler word.

We use salty 'dried chickpeas' with 'raisins' as a kind of nut.
 
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The word might be gram. Does gram sound like it might have a Persian origin?
 

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Chickpea itself is a simpler word for garbanzo nut, but hardly anybody will have heard of that.

I think you mean 'We eat salted dried chickpeas with raisins as a kind of snack'.
 

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I call it roasted channa.
 
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