muti
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmuːti/
Noun
muti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)
- (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.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 179:
Derived terms
- muti murder
- muti man, muti woman
Catalan
Estonian
Italian
Verb
muti
- second-person singular present of mutare
- first-person singular, second-person singular and third-person singular present subjunctive of mutare
- third-person singular imperative of mutare
Latin
Old Prussian
Phuthi
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Inflection
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Sicilian
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