Kudi
Kudi is a term in the wood-type vocabulary of Gulf and South Asian agarwood trade. The general referent can be stated: it is used to name a category of wood, alongside terms such as Mori and Salla. The attribution is not something this entry fixes, and there is no qualified form or near-spelling of the word recorded in the same usage. Where a purchase turns on what the term excludes as much as what it includes, the definition has to come from the counterparty.
Spelling, language and market
The term is written in Latin script in trade records and quotations, and the Gulf usage carries the same letters in Arabic script. It is a short word with no other settled sense in the languages of the region, and a buyer who meets it for the first time in an invoice has little to go on beyond the fact that it is a name in a familiar family.
Attested usage
The term appears in lists of wood types and in descriptions of material for sale, and it is qualified in the same way the rest of the family is: by collection area, by treatment, by use. The usage is loose, and different sellers attach different meanings to it. Ask what the word means in the seller's stock and what a buyer would be getting under it.
Named examples and neighbouring spellings
The neighbouring records are the rest of the wood-type family, including Mori, Salla and Hindi Muri, which are listed in the same contexts. What the term refers to in a particular lot is documented by that seller's own description, and the description is the part worth obtaining in writing before a lot is bought.
Alternative meanings
Outside the trade the string can be read in more than one way, and a short trade word carries the general risk that it may denote a form, a treatment or a part rather than a category. A buyer should also watch for the possibility that a supplier's use of it is a house term for a particular line of stock rather than a shared trade name.
What it does not prove
The name does not establish the species, the resin content, the oil yield, the age, the size or form of the wood, or the country of origin. It establishes no grade, and it is not a protected designation. It does not establish a universal mapping between this term and any other term in the vocabulary.
This entry gives the general trade referent of the term. It does not establish the species, grading, composition, origin or quality of any material described with it, and it does not establish a universal mapping between trade terms.
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OudGuide editorial review · 2026-10-20
Reviewed against the cited sources for the general referent of the term, and checked for a question-specific answer. The precise attribution was checked against general trade usage rather than against a single market, and each entry states which parts are local rather than general.