kutibu
koo-TEE-boo
How to say it
Swahilikutibukoo-TEE-boo
Englishto treat, to cure (medically)
Frenchsoigner, traiter, guérir
Meaning
To give medical care to a sick person or a disease in order to make it better.
Good to know
Takes the patient or the disease as its object: kutibu wagonjwa, to treat patients; kutibu malaria. Kutibiwa is to be treated, and tiba or matibabu is treatment.
Examples
- Daktari huyu anatibu watoto bure.This doctor treats children for free.
- Dawa hii inatibu kikohozi.This medicine cures a cough.
- Hospitali mpya itasaidia kutibu wagonjwa wengi.The new hospital will help treat many patients.
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