muti
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From Zulu umuthi (“shrub, tree, medicine”).
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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.
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muti
- inflection of mutar:
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muti
Hungarian edit
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Clipping and -i diminutive of mutasd (“show me”, definite second-person singular subjunctive of mutat).
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muti
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muti m pl
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muti
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mūtī
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muti f
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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
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muti class 3 (plural miuti)
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muti
- Alternative form of mūti
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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
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múti class 3 (plural míti class 4)
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muti (Cyrillic spelling мути)
- inflection of mutiti:
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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
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mutí class 3 (plural mití class 4)
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muti
Tsonga edit
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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gìɪ̀.
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muti class 3 (plural miti class 4)