moruti
English
Etymology
From Sotho moruti, Northern Sotho moruti, Tswana moruti, from ruta (“to teach”).
Noun
moruti (plural morutis)
- (South Africa) A teacher or preacher. [from 19th c.]
- 1891, Sofia Bompiani, Italian Explorers in Africa, The Religious Tract Society, page 138:
- One of the chiefs on his return said, 'Know, O Moruti (missionary), that I have not killed any man, and I ordered my son to let a woman go free whom he had captured.'
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 97:
- “It's my husband, Baas!” she repeated blindly. “We were married by the moruti.”
- 2011, Es'kia Mphahlele, In Corner B:
- The Thursday past I saw Moruti KK. I laughed until I dropped on the ground.
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Anagrams
- rim out