muti

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːti/

muti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)

1. (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.

• muti murder
• muti man, muti woman

• tumi

muti

1. first-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
3. third-person singular imperative form of mutar

muti

1. genitive singular of mutt

muti

1. Masculine plural of adjective muto.

muti

1. second-person singular present of mutare
2. first-person singular, second-person singular and third-person singular present subjunctive of mutare
3. third-person singular imperative of mutare

mūtī

1. nominative masculine plural of mūtus
2. genitive masculine singular of mūtus
3. genitive neuter singular of mūtus
4. vocative masculine plural of mūtus

muti f

1. accusative singular form of mute
2. instrumental singular form of mute

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

muti class 3 (plural miuti)

1. tree

muti

1. Alternative form of mūti

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

múti class 3 (plural míti class 4)

1. tree

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From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.

muti class 3

1. tree

muti

1. plural of mutu