kav

Significat (Anglès)

1. tinder, punk, touchwood, amadou, any spongy and flammable substance used to light fire
2. slough, the skin shed by a snake or other reptile when the old skin is outgrown

Conceptes

esca

Sinònims

çıra

Traduccions

amadou

tinder

Zunder

punk

spunk

tinderbox

yesca

amadou

tonder

tonderzwam

graveto

isca

esporra

lefa

Etimologia (Anglès)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاو (kav, “tinder, touchwood”), from Proto-Turkic *kiab (“tree fungus; dry grass”).