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Muti

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Italian.
Noun
  1. 1
    Traditional African medicine. South-Africa, countable, uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

(surname): Borrowed from Italian Muti

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