How to pronounce amadou
American English pronunciation
AM-uh-doo
- IPA
- /ˈæmədu/
- Syllables
- AM · uh · doo (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What amadou means
A dried, spongy fungus used as tinder to start fires
In a sentence: The hiker struck sparks onto a pad of amadou until it began to glow.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from French amadou, tinder, from a verb meaning to coax or charm. That verb perhaps comes from an Icelandic word meaning to feed.
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