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machi¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Mapudungun maci.

noun machis

  1. A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina. 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.

Machi²

Where it comes from

Two possible origins:

* Borrowed from Italian Machi or Machì, a surname of unexplained origin.

* Borrowed from Japanese 真地 (Machi), an uncommon surname in Japan.

proper noun Machis

  1. A surname.

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"machi." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/machi. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

machi. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/machi

Chicago

"machi." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/machi.

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@misc{machi_2026,
  title = {machi},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/machi},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}