muti

See also: Muti, mutí, mūti, mǔtǐ, muṯi, and mut'i

English

Etymology

From Zulu umuthi (“shrub, tree, medicine”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːti/

Noun

muti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)

1. (South Africa) Traditional African medicine. [from 19th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 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 2013, p. 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

• tumi

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Catalan

Verb

muti

1. first-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
3. third-person singular imperative form of mutar

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Estonian

Noun

muti

1. genitive singular of mutt

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Italian

Adjective

muti

1. masculine plural of muto

Verb

muti

1. second-person singular present of mutare
2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of mutare
3. third-person singular imperative of mutare

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Latin

Adjective

mūtī

1. nominative masculine plural of mūtus
2. genitive masculine singular of mūtus
3. genitive neuter singular of mūtus
4. vocative masculine plural of mūtus

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Latvian

Noun

muti f

1. accusative singular form of mute
2. instrumental singular form of mute

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Mwani

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

muti 3 (plural miuti)

1. tree

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Old Prussian

Noun

muti

1. Alternative form of mūti

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Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

múti 3 (plural míti 4)

1. tree

Inflection

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Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

mutí 3 (plural mití 4)

1. tree
2. medicine

   Synonym: mushonga

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Sicilian

Adjective

muti

1. plural of mutu