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Definition: AMADOU

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Amadou" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Amadou \Am"a*dou\, noun. [French expression amadou tinder, prop. lure, bait, from amadouer to allure, caress, perhaps from Icelandic mata to feed, which is akin to English meat.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: AMADOU

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] A variety of the boletus igniarius, found on old ash and other trees. This is written also amadow, and called black match, and pyrotechnical spunge, on account of its inflammability.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Geography 1: Amadou is geographically located in Cameroon. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 11.4339412193722 degrees North latitude and 15.0411376603963 degrees East longitude. (references)
  2: Amadou is geographically located in Morocco. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 30.48 degrees North latitude and 9.5 degrees West longitude. (references)
  3: Amadou is geographically located in Togo. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 6.3 degrees North latitude and 1.683333 degrees East longitude. (references)
Wikipedic Amadou is a spongy, flammable substance prepared from fungi of the genera Boletus or Polyporus. It is used as tinder (especially after being soaked in a solution of nitre) and in fly fishing, for drying out fly lures. It has great water-absorbing potential. (references)

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Common Expressions: AMADOU

Expressions Definition
Alphonse Amadou Alley Alphonse (Amadou) Alley (1930 - 1987) was a Beninese army officer and political figure. He served as the president of Benin from 21 December 1967 until 17 July 1968. (references)
Amadou and Mariam Amadou and Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born in Mali's capital Bamako 15 April 1958) and Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (born in Bamako 24 October 1954). The pair, known as "the blind couple from Mali" met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, and found they shared an interest in music. (references)
Amadou Bamba Amadou Bamba (1850-1927) (Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke in Wolof, Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb Allāh in Arabic, also known as Khadīmu r-Rasūl or "The Servant of the Prophet" in Arabic, and as Sëriñ Tuubaa or "Holy Man of Tuubaa" in Wolof), muslim Sufi religious leader in Senegal, founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya). See Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal. (references)
Amadou Coulibaly Amadou Coulibaly (born December 31, 1984) is a Burkinan football player who, as of 2004 was playing for RC Bobo Dioulasso. (references)
Amadou Diallo Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975 - February 4, 1999), a 23 year-old Guinean living in New York City, was killed under controversial circumstances by four police officers in the New York City Police Department's Street Crime Unit, at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Since Diallo was unarmed and, as it turned out, did not threaten the officers in any way, the killing caused outrage in New York and elsewhere. Many viewed it as police brutality stemming from racial profiling. (references)
Amadou Hampâté Bâ Amadou Hampâté Bâ (January or February 1900 or 1901 in Bandiagara, Mali - May 15, 1991 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) was a Malian writer and ethnologist. (references)
Amadou Tidiane Tall Amadou Tidiane Tall (born June 22, 1975) is a Burkinan football player who, as of 2004 was playing for Etoile Filante Ouagadougou. (references)
Amadou Toumani Touré Amadou Toumani Touré (b. November 4, 1948 in Mopti, Mali) is the president of Mali. He overthrew a military ruler, Moussa Traoré in 1991, then handed power to civilian authorities the next year. He won the presidential elections in 2002, with a broad coalition of support. Ousmane Issoufi Maïga is his prime minister. (references)
Amadou Touré Amadou Touré (born December 23, 1979) is a Burkinan football player who, as of 2004 was playing for ASFA Yennega. (references)
Hama Amadou Hama Amadou (born 1950) is the Prime Minister of Niger. He was PM from February 1995 to January 1996, when the government was overthrown by a military coup, and then again since January 3, 2000, shortly after democracy was restored and elections were held in 1999. (references)

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Extended Definition: AMADOU

Amadou

fishing
Artificial fly
Fly lure
Fly tying
Amadou
Cul De Canard
Trolling tandem streamer
Clouser Deep Minnow
Diawl bach
Egg sucking leech
Flesh Fly
Hare's Ear
Klinkhammer
Muddler Minnow
Pheasant Tail Nymph
Woolly Worm
Woolly Bugger
fly fishing
recreational
Fomes fomentarius
Fomes fomentarius
Romanian cap made from amadou
Romanian cap made from amadou

Amadou is a spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi. The species generally used is Fomes fomentarius (formerly Ungulina fomentaria or Polyporus fomentarius) which in English is also called horse's hoof fungus or tinder fungus. It is used as tinder (especially after being pounded flat, and boiled or soaked in a solution of nitre)and also used when smouldering as a portable firelighter. It is also used in fly fishing for drying out artificial flies. It is sometimes also used to form a felt-like fabric used in the making of hats and other items. It has great water-absorbing abilities.

Fomes fomentarius has also been used in Chinese medicine for chronic indigestion and prescribed for fighting stomach cancer. Today its medicinal properties are being researched by several scientists.

Amadou was a precious resource to ancient people, allowing them to start a fire by catching sparks from flint struck against iron pyrites. Remarkable evidence for this is provided by the discovery of the 5000-year-old remains of "Ötzi the Iceman", who carried it on a cross-alpine excursion before his death/murder and subsequent ice-entombment.

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Topics by Level of Interest: AMADOU

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Amadou 21     Alphonse Amadou Alley 4
Hama Amadou 20     Amadou 21
Amadou Diallo 16     Amadou & Mariam 9
Amadou Cissé 12     Amadou (alternative meanings) 3
Amadou Bamba 12     Amadou Bamba 12
Amadou Toumani Touré 12     Amadou Cheiffou 9
Amadou & Mariam 9     Amadou Cissé 12
Amadou Hampâté Bâ 9     Amadou Coulibaly 7
Amadou Cheiffou 9     Amadou Dia Ba 5
Amadou Coulibaly 7     Amadou Diallo 16
Amadou Konte 7     Amadou Gakou 2
Amadou Rabihou 5     Amadou Hampâté Bâ 9
Amadou Dia Ba 5     Amadou Konte 7
Alphonse Amadou Alley 4     Amadou Morou 4
Amadou Morou 4     Amadou Rabihou 5
Amadou (alternative meanings) 3     Amadou Tidiane Tall 2
Amadou Touré 2     Amadou Toumani Touré 12
Amadou Tidiane Tall 2     Amadou Touré 2
Amadou Gakou 2     Hama Amadou 20

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: amadou
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 touchwood, spunk, bavin, mettle, punk, spirit, tinder.
Consider also: apparition, courage, ghost, life, mood, animation, bravery, character, disposition, energy, enthusiasm, essence, heart, mind, phantom, soul, fortitude, liveliness, specter.

Other

 black-match, pluck.

Expression

 Pyrotechnical sponge, German tinder.
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Computed Synonyms: amadou

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   9.0091   amadou     touchwood     tinder, punk, spunk, conk, touch wood   
 2   8.0094   amadou     tinder     touchwood, punk, spunk, kindling, bar   
 3   5.0093   amadou     punk     villain, roughneck, rascal, ruffian, loon   
 4   4.0093   amadou     spunk     courage, mettle, nerve, bravery, pluck   
 5   2.0089   amadou     German tinder     touchwood, punk, spunk, tinder, conk   
 6   1.0194   amadou     anger     rage, wrath, fury, ire, indignation   
 7   1.0185   amadou     surgeon's agaric     tinder fungus, spunk, punk, touchwood   
 8   1.0093   amadou     conk     nose, punk, snout, knock, snitch   
 9   1.0093   amadou     fungus     fungi, mushroom, toadstool, mushrooms, mildew   
 10   1.0077   amadou     ESCa disease of grapevine     European holly, conk, anger, tinder, punk   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Synonyms within Context: amadou

Context Synonyms within Context

Fuel

Amadou, anthracite, bavin, bituminous coal, blind coal, bobbing, brand, brimstone, carbon, charcoal, cinder, coal, coke, culm, faggot, fireball, fire-barrel, firewood, German tinder, glance coal, incense, ingle, log, peat, port-fire, products of combustion, punk, pyrotechnic sponge, smudge, solid fueled rocket, sulphur, tar shale, tinder, touchwood, turf, wallsend.

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Translations: AMADOU

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Albanian Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Albanian, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Arnaut Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Arnaut, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski прахан (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) prakhan (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese Nome De Um Fungo (amadou). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian прахан (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) prakhan (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 火绒 (touchwood, tinder, touch-wood, amadou). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 火絨 (amadou, tinder, touchwood, touch-wood). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse funga esca (amadou, tinder fungus, tinderwood). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi funga esca (amadou, tinder fungus, tinderwood). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican funga esca (amadou, tinder fungus, tinderwood). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso funga esca (amadou, tinder fungus, tinderwood). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu funga esca (amadou, tinder fungus, tinderwood). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Daco-Rumanian Iascã (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Wundschwamm (amadou, German tinder, spunk), Feuerschwamm (amadou, surgeon's agaric, tinder, touchwood), Blutschwamm (amadou, tinder fungus, touchwood). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Français amadouvier (tinderwood, amadou, tinder fungus), AmadouMariam (Amadou and Mariam). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
French amadouvier (tinderwood, amadou, tinder fungus), AmadouMariam (Amadou and Mariam). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
German Wundschwamm (amadou, German tinder, spunk), Feuerschwamm (amadou, surgeon's agaric, tinder, touchwood), Blutschwamm (amadou, tinder fungus, touchwood). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 말굽버섯과의 버섯으로 만든 해면상 물질 (amadou). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 말굽버섯과의 버섯으로 만든 해면상 물질 (amadou). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Wundschwamm (amadou, German tinder, spunk), Feuerschwamm (amadou, surgeon's agaric, tinder, touchwood), Blutschwamm (amadou, tinder fungus, touchwood). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Wundschwamm (amadou, German tinder, spunk), Feuerschwamm (amadou, surgeon's agaric, tinder, touchwood), Blutschwamm (amadou, tinder fungus, touchwood). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Hungarian Tapló (spunk, fungus, German tinder, tinder, shit-kicker). Additional references: Hungarian, Hungary, Austria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese アマドゥ (amadou), 暖皮 (amadou). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 말굽버섯과의 버섯으로 만든 해면상 물질 (amadou). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Magyar Tapló (spunk, fungus, German tinder, tinder, shit-kicker). Additional references: Magyar, Hungary, Austria, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Moldavian Iascã (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese Nome De Um Fungo (amadou). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Romanian Iascã (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Rumanian Iascã (amadou, punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian трут (tinder, amadou). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) trut (tinder, amadou). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki трут (tinder, amadou). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) trut (tinder, amadou). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Shkip Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Shkip, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Shqip Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Shqip, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Shqiperë Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Shqiperë, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Skchip Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Skchip, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish yesca (punk, amadou, tinder, touchwood, anger). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Tosk Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Tosk, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian трут (tinder, amadou). Additional references: Ukrainian, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian (transliteration) trut (tinder, amadou). Additional references: Ukrainian, amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
Zhgabe Eshkë (amadou, punk, tinder, touch wood, touchwood). Additional references: Zhgabe, Turkey (Europe), amadou. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: AMADOU

Language Translations for “amadou” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag athagamathagadathagou (amadou). Additional references: Athag, amadou. (volunteer)
Double Dutch agamagadagou (amadou). Additional references: Double Dutch, amadou. (volunteer)
Leet /-\//./-\[)()< (amadou). Additional references: Leet, amadou. (volunteer)
Oppish opamopadopou (amadou). Additional references: Oppish, amadou. (volunteer)
Pig Latin amadouway (amadou). Additional references: Pig Latin, amadou. (volunteer)
Terran B funeach (amadou). Additional references: Terran B, amadou. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi ubamubadubou (amadou). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, amadou. (volunteer)
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