muti

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmuːti/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

mutis plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́
Zulu úmuthíbor.
English muti
Borrowed from Zulu úmuthí (“shrub, tree, medicine”), from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
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