muti

muti

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

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from Zulu úmuthí (shrub, tree, medicine), from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

    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

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    Pronunciation

    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)