tinder

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɪndəː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [thɪndəː]
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• General-American: /tɪndɚ/
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• General-American: [thɪndɚ] ~ [thɪndɹ̩]
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• homophone: tinder
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• homophone: tender (pin–pen merger)
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɪn.dəː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈthɪn.dəː]
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• General-American: /ˈtɪn.dɚ/
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• General-American: [ˈthɪ̟n.dɚ] ~ [ˈthɪ̟n.dɹ̩]
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• rhymes with -ɪndə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: T IH1 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The application's name is likely derived from the verb tinder (“to set fire to, to torch”), and a play on the various meanings of match (the prototype was called MatchBox).

From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: eshkë — dry sticks etc.
• Arabic: وَرْيَة نَار — dry sticks etc.
• Arabic: رِيَّة (riyya) — dry sticks etc.
• Arabic: حَرُوق (ḥarūq) — dry sticks etc.
• Arabic: حُرَاق (ḥurāq) — dry sticks etc.
• Arabic: صُوفَان (ṣūfān) — dry sticks etc.
• Armenian: աբեթ (abetʻ) — dry sticks etc.
• Armenian: կպչան (kpčʻan) — dry sticks etc.
• Armenian: ղավ (ġav) — dry sticks etc.
• Aromanian: eascã — dry sticks etc.
• Aromanian: iascã — dry sticks etc.
• Asturian: esca — dry sticks etc.
• Asturian: yesca — dry sticks etc.
• Azerbaijani: qov — dry sticks etc.
• Bulgarian: разпалки (razpalki) — dry sticks etc.
• Catalan: esca — dry sticks etc.
• Czech: troud — dry sticks etc.
• Esperanto: tindro — dry sticks etc.
• Finnish: sytyke — dry sticks etc.
• French: amadou — dry sticks etc.
• Friulian: lescje — dry sticks etc.
• Galician: esca — dry sticks etc.
• Galician: isca — dry sticks etc.
• Georgian: აბედი (abedi) — dry sticks etc.
• German: Zunder — dry sticks etc.
• Hungarian: gyújtós — dry sticks etc.
• Hungarian: gyúanyag — dry sticks etc.
• Hungarian: alágyújtós — dry sticks etc.
• Hungarian: aprófa — dry sticks etc.
• Ingrian: virite — dry sticks etc.
• Irish: sponc — dry sticks etc.
• Italian: esca — dry sticks etc.
• Latin: fōmes — dry sticks etc.
• Macedonian: борина (borina) — dry sticks etc.
• Māori: puaka — dry sticks etc.
• Māori: pangē — dry sticks etc.
• Māori: pangi — dry sticks etc.
• Māori: pūkoki — dry sticks etc.
• Māori: kōetoeto — dry sticks etc.
• Norman: tondre — dry sticks etc.
• Norwegian: kveike — dry sticks etc.
• Norwegian Bokmål: opptenningsved — dry sticks etc.
• Polish: hubka — dry sticks etc.
• Polish: podpałka — dry sticks etc.
• Polish: rozpałka — dry sticks etc.
• Portuguese: graveto — dry sticks etc.
• Portuguese: isca — dry sticks etc.
• Romanian: iască — dry sticks etc.
• Romansh: estga — dry sticks etc.
• Romansh: escha — dry sticks etc.
• Russian: трут (trut) — dry sticks etc.
• Southern Altai: куу (kuu) — dry sticks etc.
• Spanish: yesca — dry sticks etc.
• Spanish: encendaja — dry sticks etc.
• Spanish: incendaja — dry sticks etc.
• Swedish: fnöske — dry sticks etc.
• Tagalog: lulog — dry sticks etc.
• Turkish: çıra — dry sticks etc.
• Turkish: kav — dry sticks etc.
• Ottoman Turkish: قاو (kav) — dry sticks etc.
• Udmurt: сеньки (śeńki) — dry sticks etc.
• Ukrainian: трут (trut) — dry sticks etc.
• Venetan: lesca — dry sticks etc.
• Venetan: esca — dry sticks etc.
• Vietnamese: bùi nhùi — dry sticks etc.
• Dutch: tinderen — to use the dating application Tinder
• German: tindern — to use the dating application Tinder