muti
English
Etymology
From Zulu umuthi (“shrub, tree, medicine”).
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
Pronunciation
Verb
muti
- inflection of mutar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Estonian
Noun
muti
- genitive singular of mutt
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
Interjection
muti
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmu.ti/
- Rhymes: -uti
- Hyphenation: mù‧ti
Etymology 1
Adjective
muti m pl
- masculine plural of muto
Etymology 2
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
Noun
muti f
- accusative/instrumental singular of mute
Mwani
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Noun
muti class 3 (plural miuti)
Old Prussian
Noun
muti
- alternative form of mūti
Phuthi
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Noun
múti class 3 (plural míti class 4)
Inflection
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Serbo-Croatian
Verb
muti (Cyrillic spelling мути)
- inflection of mutiti:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Shona
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Noun
mutí class 3 (plural mití class 4)
Sicilian
Adjective
muti
- plural of mutu
Spanish
Noun
muti m or f by sense (plural mutis)
- (social media, informal) a mutual
Tsonga
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gìɪ̀.
Noun
muti class 3 (plural miti class 4)
Yoruba
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mũ̄.tí/
Verb
mutí
- to drink alcohol
- Ẹni tí ó mutí ogójì yóò sọ̀rọ̀ okòó
- One must reciprocate what they receive.
- (literally, “Whoever drinks alcohol to the value of forty must talk to the value of twenty”)
Derived terms
- ajímutí (“one who drinks alcohol upon waking up”)
- amutí (“one who drinks alcohol”)
- mutí para (“to drink heavily”)
- mutí yó (“to get drunk”)
- ọ̀mùtí (“drunkard”)
- àfòwúrọ̀mutí (“morning drinking”)
- ìmutí (“alcohol consumption”)
- òǹmutí (“a drinker”)