muti

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːti/

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• tumi

Verb

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

Adjective

muti m pl

1. Masculine plural of adjective muto.

Verb

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

Adjective

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

Noun

muti f

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

Noun

muti class 3 (plural miuti)

1. tree

Noun

muti

1. Alternative form of mūti

Adjective

muti

1. plural of mutu