muti
English
editEtymology
editFrom Zulu umuthi (“shrub, tree, medicine”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmuti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)
- (South Africa) Traditional African medicine. [from 19th c.]
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 179:
- The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.
- 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 300:
- Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.
Derived terms
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editCatalan
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editVerb
editmuti
- inflection of mutar:
Estonian
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editmuti
Hungarian
editEtymology
editClipping and -i diminutive of mutasd (“show me”, definite second-person singular subjunctive of mutat).
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editmuti
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editmuti m pl
Etymology 2
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editmuti
Latin
editAdjective
editmūtī
Latvian
editNoun
editmuti f
Mwani
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Noun
editmuti class 3 (plural miuti)
Old Prussian
editNoun
editmuti
- Alternative form of mūti
Phuthi
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Noun
editmúti class 3 (plural míti class 4)
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Serbo-Croatian
editVerb
editmuti (Cyrillic spelling мути)
- inflection of mutiti:
Shona
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Noun
editmutí class 3 (plural mití class 4)
Sicilian
editAdjective
editmuti
Tsonga
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gìɪ̀.
Noun
editmuti class 3 (plural miti class 4)
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