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A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: German tinder
Antonyms: none provided
From French amadou (“tinder, lure, bait”), from amadouer (“to allure, caress”), perhaps from Icelandic mata (“to feed”), which is akin to English meat.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
vuurswam
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Albanian:
eshkë
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Armenian:
աբեթ
(abetʻ)
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Armenian:
ղավ
(ġav)
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Azerbaijani:
qov
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Finnish:
taula
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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French:
amadou
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Georgian:
აბედი
(abedi)
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Polish:
hubka
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Russian:
трут
(trut)
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Swedish:
fnöske
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Turkish:
kav
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Ottoman Turkish:
قاو
(kav)
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Ukrainian:
трут
(trut)
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
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Ukrainian:
гу́бка
(húbka)
— spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi
