moruti, noun
- Forms:
- Show more Also maruti, moorootze, muruti.
- Plurals:
- baruti.
- Origin:
- Sotho, SetswanaShow more Sotho and Setswana, singular noun prefix mo- (see mo-) + -ruti, from ruta teach.
Among speakers of Sotho and Setswana: umfundisi.
1866 E.L. Price Jrnls (1956) 246I think they wd. take anything from Roger, or any ‘Muruti’ — so glad are they to get a teacher once more.
1990 Weekend Post 24 Feb. (Leisure) 4Their attempts to be on good terms with all their parishioners were soon rebuffed by the town’s white inhabitants...The Bafurutse, however,..took the moruti and his mma-moruti into their hearts.
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