# machi
## English
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

machi (plural machis)
* A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.
** 2015 August 19, Pascale Bonnefoy, “Alongside a Doctor’s Care, a Dose of Traditional Healing”, in New York Times‎:Many Mapuche women in La Pintana often went without health care because they did not trust conventional Western medicine or feared discrimination in public health clinics, and traveling hundreds of miles to see a machi in their communities of origin was impractical.

### Anagrams

* Chaim, Micah

## Italian
### Noun

machi m (invariable)
* Alternative spelling of maki

## Japanese
### Romanization

machi
* Rōmaji transcription of まち

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Romani makhiv.

### Verb

a machi (third-person singular present machește, past participle machit) 4th conj.
* (slang) to get drunk

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmat͡ʃi/ [ˈma.t͡ʃi]
* Rhymes: -atʃi
* Syllabification: ma‧chi

### Noun

machi m or f (plural machis)
* machi (Mapuche traditional healer)
** 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 35:Dicen algunos entendidos en asuntos de brujería, que el territorio de la República está dividido en tres cantones o estados independientes, el del Norte, el del Centro y el del Sur, gobernada cada uno de ellos por un Machi, poderoso hechicero de vastísima ciencia, que ejercita su autoridad despótica sobre todos los Brujos de la región que le está sometida.Some experts in witchcraft say that the territory of the Republic is divided into three independent regions or states, that of the North, the Center, and the South, each of them governed by a machi, a powerful sorceror of extremely vast knowledge, who exercises their despotic authority over all witches in the region under their control.

### Further reading

* “machi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English march.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

machi (n class, plural machi)
* march (formal, rhythmic way of walking)

## Unami
### Etymology

Cognate with Munsee máachiiw (“he goes home”). Likely cognate with Massachusett monchu (“he goes”), Mohegan-Pequot môci (“he goes away, heads off”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

machi (third plural indicative machiyok) (animate intransitive)
* (animate, intransitive) he/she goes home

#### Conjugation

| machi | |
| 1st person singular | nëmachi |
| 2nd person singular | këmachi |
| 3rd person singular | machi |
| 1st person plural inclusive | nëmachihëna |
| 1st person plural exclusive | këmachihëna |
| 2nd person plural | këmachihëmo |
| 3rd person plural | machiyok |
| machi | |
| 1st person singular | machia |
| 2nd person singular | machiàn |
| 3rd person singular | machit |
| 1st person plural inclusive | machiànk |
| 1st person plural exclusive | machiànk |
| 2nd person plural | machièkw |
| 3rd person plural | machihtit |
| machi | |
| 1st person singular | machiane |
| 2nd person singular | machiàne |
| 3rd person singular | machite |
| 1st person plural inclusive | machiànke |
| 1st person plural exclusive | machiànke |
| 2nd person plural | machièkwe |
| 3rd person plural | machihtite |
| machi | Imperative |
| 2nd person singular | machi |
| 2nd person plural | machikw |
| 1st person plural | machitàm |

#### Related terms

* mòchalao

### References

* Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “machi”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project