Machi
name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.
"Many Mapuche women in La Pintana often went without health care because they did not trust conventional Western medicine or feared discrimination in public health clinics, and traveling hundreds of miles to see a machi in their communities of origin was impractical."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"I don't like the anime of "Tatoeba Last Dungeon Mae no Mura no Shounen ga Joban no Machi de Kurasu Youna Monogatari" because it does a disservice to me by hijacking the search results for "Tatoeba" in social media."
Etymology
Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Italian Machi or Machì, a surname of unexplained origin. * Borrowed from Japanese 真地 (Machi), an uncommon surname in Japan.
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