a male given name, widely used in Islamic West Africa
çekim: çoğul amadous
köken: A French spelling of a name ultimately derived from Arabic أَحْمَدُ (ʔaḥmadu), i.e. Ahmad. Native spellings include Wolof and Pulaar Aamadu etc.
kindling (twigs used to start a fire) · spark, trigger, catalyst · pot boiler book, low-quality book
köken: 불 (bul, “fire”) + 쑤시− (“to poke”) + -개 (-gae, “-er”, inanimate agentive suffix). The "book" sense comes from the idea that the book is so terrible it would be better used as kindling.
amadou, most commonly prepared from hoof fungus (Fomes fomentarius), primarily used as tinder or as a styptic · tinder, touchwood, material for lighting a fire (more generally)
tinder, touchwood, punk · any of several kinds of hard, dry mushrooms (Phellinus igniarius) that grow on tree trunks and were used as tinder to kindle fires