muti

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

English

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Etymology

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From Zulu umuthi (shrub, tree, medicine).

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Noun

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muti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)

  1. (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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Catalan

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Verb

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muti

  1. inflection of mutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Estonian

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Noun

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muti

  1. genitive singular of mutt

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Clipping and -i diminutive of mutasd (show me, definite second-person singular subjunctive of mutat).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmuti]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧ti
  • Rhymes: -ti

Interjection

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muti

  1. (colloquial) show me, let me see (it)
    Synonyms: mutasd, hadd nézzem/lássam

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.ti/
  • Rhymes: -uti
  • Hyphenation: mù‧ti

Etymology 1

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Adjective

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muti m pl

  1. masculine plural of muto

Etymology 2

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Verb

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muti

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

Latin

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Adjective

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mūtī

  1. inflection of mūtus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Latvian

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Noun

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muti f

  1. accusative/instrumental singular of mute

Mwani

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

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muti class 3 (plural miuti)

  1. tree

Old Prussian

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Noun

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muti

  1. Alternative form of mūti

Phuthi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

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múti class 3 (plural míti class 4)

  1. tree

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Serbo-Croatian

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Verb

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muti (Cyrillic spelling мути)

  1. inflection of mutiti:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Shona

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

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mutí class 3 (plural mití class 4)

  1. tree
  2. medicine
    Synonym: mushonga

Sicilian

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Adjective

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muti

  1. plural of mutu

Tsonga

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gìɪ̀.

Noun

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muti class 3 (plural miti class 4)

  1. village