kav

Meaning

  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

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Etymology

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

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