muti

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

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːti/
• Rhymes: -uːti

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• muti murder
• muti man, muti woman

Anagrams

• tumi

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmu.ti]

Verb

muti

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

Estonian

Noun

muti

1. 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

1. (colloquial) show me, let me see (it)

   Synonyms: mutasd, hadd nézzem/lássam

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Adjective

muti m pl

1. masculine plural of muto

Etymology 2

Verb

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

Adjective

mūtī

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

Latvian

Noun

muti f

1. accusative/instrumental singular of mute

Mwani

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

muti class 3 (plural miuti)

1. tree

Old Prussian

Noun

muti

1. alternative form of mūti

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

múti class 3 (plural míti class 4)

1. tree

Inflection

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

muti (Cyrillic spelling мути)

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

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

Noun

mutí class 3 (plural mití class 4)

1. tree
2. medicine

   Synonym: mushonga

Sicilian

Adjective

muti

1. plural of mutu

Spanish

Noun

muti m or f by sense (plural mutis)

1. (social media, informal) a mutual

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gìɪ̀.

Noun

muti class 3 (plural miti class 4)

1. village

Yoruba

Etymology

Contraction of mu +‎ ọtí.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mũ̄.tí/

Verb

mutí

1. 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”)