muti
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmuːti/
- Rhymes: -uːti
Noun
muti (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
- muti murder
- muti man, muti woman
Anagrams
Catalan
Verb
muti
- inflection of mutar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Estonian
Hungarian
Etymology
Clipping and -i diminutive of mutasd (“show me”, definite second-person singular subjunctive of mutat).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmuti]
- Hyphenation: mu‧ti
- Rhymes: -ti
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmu.ti/
- Rhymes: -uti
- Hyphenation: mù‧ti
Verb
muti
- inflection of mutare:
- second-person singular present indicative
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Latin
Adjective
mūtī
- inflection of mūtus:
- nominative/vocative masculine plural
- genitive masculine/neuter singular
Latvian
Old Prussian
Phuthi
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Inflection
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Serbo-Croatian
Shona
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Sicilian
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