Home › Words › A › almadiealmadiealmadie means A canoe made from tree bark, formerly used in Africa.EtymologyFrom French almadie (compare Spanish & Portuguese almadia), from Arabic مَعْدِيَة (maʕdiya, “ferry”).nounA canoe made from tree bark, formerly used in Africa.A boat formerly used by traders off the coast of India, about eighty feet long and six or seven feet wide.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dalca 54% match — A light canoe employed by the Chonos, a nomadic indigenous people of southern Chile. vs almadie →avodire 54% match — The wood of the tree Turraeanthus africana. vs almadie →banca 53% match — A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout. vs almadie →yelaman 53% match — An Aboriginal shield of wood or bark. vs almadie →barken 53% match — Made of bark. vs almadie →coolamon 53% match — A vessel with curved sides, typically of wood or bark, used by Australian Aboriginals for holding water, collecting berries etc. vs almadie →cayuco 53% match — A sort of canoe or kayak. vs almadie →curiara 52% match — a dugout canoe used by indigenous people in South America vs almadie →