different between muti vs mufti

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mu?ti/

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.

Derived terms

• muti murder
• muti man, muti woman

Anagrams

• tumi

Catalan

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

Estonian

Noun

muti

1. genitive singular of mutt

Hungarian

Etymology

Clipping of mutasd (“show me”, definite second-person singular subjunctive of mutat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?muti]
• Hyphenation: mu?ti
• Rhymes: -ti

Interjection

muti

1. (colloquial) show me, let me see (it)

   Synonyms: mutasd, hadd nézzem/lássam

Italian

Adjective

muti

1. masculine plural of muto

Verb

muti

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

Latin

Adjective

m?t?

1. nominative masculine plural of m?tus
2. genitive masculine singular of m?tus
3. genitive neuter singular of m?tus
4. vocative masculine plural of m?tus

Latvian

Noun

muti f

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

Mwani

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??t??.

Noun

muti 3 (plural miuti)

1. tree

Old Prussian

Noun

muti

1. Alternative form of m?ti

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??t??.

Noun

múti 3 (plural míti 4)

1. tree

Inflection

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

muti (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of mutiti:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??t??.

Noun

mutí 3 (plural mití 4)

1. tree
2. medicine

   Synonym: mushonga

Sicilian

Adjective

muti

1. plural of mutu

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??gì??.

Noun

muti 3 (plural miti 4)

1. village

English

Alternative forms

• muftee (archaic)

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ???????? (muft?, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?fti/, (only in sense 1) /?m?fti/

Noun

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)

1. (countable, Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa.
2. (uncountable, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.

   Synonym: civvies

Derived terms

• mufti day

Translations

French

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (muftin), the active participle of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myf.ti/
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Related terms

• fatwa

Hungarian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (müftî), from Arabic ???????? (muft?), from ??????? (muftin), the active participle of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mufti]
• Hyphenation: muf?ti
• Rhymes: -ti

Noun

mufti (plural muftik)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Declension

Derived terms

• f?mufti

Related terms

• fetva

Italian

Noun

mufti m (invariable)

1. Rare form of muftì.

Malay

Pronunciation

Noun

mufti (Jawi spelling ?????, plural mufti-mufti, informal 1st possessive muftiku, impolite 2nd possessive muftimu, 3rd possessive muftinya)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Further reading

• “mufti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (muftin), the active participle of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?muf.ti/

Noun

mufti m pers

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Declension

Related terms

• fatwa

Further reading

• mufti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (muftin), the active participle of ???????? (?aft?, “to deliver a formal opinion”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /muf?t??i/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /muf?ti/

Noun

mufti m (plural muftis)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)

Uzbek

Noun

mufti (plural muftilar)

1. (Islam) mufti (Muslim scholar)