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单词 moruti
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morutin.

Brit. /məˈruːti/, U.S. /məˈrudi/, South African English /məˈruːti/, /mɒˈruːti/
Forms: 1800s moorootze, 1800s muruti, 1900s– maruti, 1900s– moruti. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Southern Sotho. Partly a borrowing from Northern Sotho. Partly a borrowing from Tswana. Etymons: Southern Sotho moruti; Northern Sotho, moruti; Tswana moruti.
Etymology: < Southern Sotho moruti and its cognates Northern Sotho moruti, and Tswana moruti < mo-, personal class prefix + -ruti ( < ruta to teach).The Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, and Tswana plural form is baruti.
South African.
In Southern Africa (esp. among Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, and Tswana speakers): a teacher, missionary, or minister of religion. Cf. umfundisi n.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts
missionary1625
missioner1654
gospeller1673
umfundisi1825
God-man1842
moruti1866
missionizer1901
missionist1909
mish1939
1866 E. L. Price Let. 15 Nov. in Jrnls. (1956) 246 I think they wd. take anything fr. Roger, or any ‘Muruti’—so glad are they to get a teacher once more.
a1875 T. Baines Jrnl. of Resid. II. 94 Instead of taking me to the Moorootze, Mr. Cameron, he left me in Morroko's kraal.
1918 C. Garstin Sunshine Settlers 163 They've got a new maruti over at Kala's Stad..from the missionary school.
1937 B. H. Dicke Bush Speaks 43 This old warrior was a ‘moruti’, a teacher of religion.
1968 A. Fulton Dark Side of Mercy 28 The moruti, the priest who had baptised him, had poured scorn on the power of the Ngaka, deriding the magic of the medicine horn.
2000 Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 11 Aug. You mean the white moruti..who lives in Soweto?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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