Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[adú] n. noise; sound

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Dialect: ant. kúcì

[akì durgu] n. wooden trough for feeding dogs

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[amiɁ-agũ] n. design; motif; pattern (esp.in embroidery)

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[anɨ] n. leaf

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Dialect: syn. yanw

[apɨ-asó] n. area; dimension

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[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

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[ariɁ] v. choke; retch

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[axɨ] n. comb

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[ajo] n. grandmother or mother-in-law (term of address)

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[aíi] n. blood

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[bagã riɲo] n. a variety of flower; primrose flower (Primula spp.)

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Dialect: syn. neha appú

[beɁxo] v. peel off; pare; flake

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[bipĩ] n. mat of animal skin

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[buuxe] n. a variety of house rat

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[báxè] adj. brusque; impolite; rude; ill-mannered

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[car] v. boil

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[cixo] adj. clever; smart; successful person

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[coʎo pakaɁ] n. small metallic plate, esp. to serve side dishes

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[cuukiɁ] n. metallic poker; safety pin

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Dialect: syn. ufañ kuti

[doɲaɁ] n. sunny day; cloudless day

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[dui] n. tobacco

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[dɨrã] n. principal marriage gift to bride’s parent; one who gets such marriage gift

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[eɁxaɁ] v. miss a target by shooting

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Dialect: ant. e’da’

[ẽtɨ pǝrǝ] n. large cane mat used for temporary storage of harvested paddy in the field

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[genɨ nã] v. blame someone else for one’ own mistake

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[gijã] n. cabbage leaf mustard (Brassica juncea var. rugosa)

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Dialect: syn. giyañ hamañ

[haadɨ] v. get angry; annoyed; enraged

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[heŋa-hẽxa] adj. troublesome; worrisome; bagging; distressing

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[hoɁjo-hoɁci] v. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

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Dialect: syn. ho’gyo-ho’fo

[hɨsã] n. grass; fodder

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[hùu] v. be fatty (as pork might get); be oily

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[ijuɁ] n. an ailment in which a person loses appetite, believed to be caused by somebody’s property, esp. ginger plants growing in somebody else’s garden

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

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[kasɨ-kape] v. ignore; pay attention to

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[ko] v. throw out (from the mouth); throw up

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[kobja] adj. generous; altruistic; forthcoming; quick in giving

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[kortú] n. metal capping at the end of the handle of a ceremonial sword (ci’rì)

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[koso] adj. lengthwise; placed lengthwise

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Dialect: ant. kopw

[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

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[laɁciɁ] n. finger

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[laɁtaɁ] n. short stick usually used as a weapon for beating or throwing=

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[lobjoɁ tare] n. a variety of thorny plant

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Dialect: var. lobyo’ twre

[lɨgeɁ] n. popliteal space; hollow of the knee

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[lɨpì] v. dry

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[lɨrɨ lorɨɁ] n. joint

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Dialect: syn. lorw’

[mẽ] v. kill; assassinate; execute; slaughter

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[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink

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[miɉuɁ] adj. cowardly; timid

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Dialect: syn. miju’ mija

[mɨdǝr] v. rectify; do something correctly

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[mɨʎu] v. waste; spend

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[mɨpja-mɨsa] v. scatter; disseminate; sprinkle

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[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

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[mɨxoɁ] v. do something differently

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[mjɨ-oho] n. family; wife and children

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[mò] pron. he; she; third person singular pronoun

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[nɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

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Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[paɁpo] n. a bamboo pole suspended horizontally on the side wall of the house for keeping clothes

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[paciɁ] n. an element of a rat trap

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[padĩ] n. erosion control embankment usually of bamboo and wood along the banks of the streams

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[pakaɁ] adj. depression; dent; trough

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Dialect: ant. puñtu

[par] v. make or light fire; ignite fire

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[paroɁ] n. chicken; fowl

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[pataɁ] n. bamboo split; flat object

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[pẽci aɉĩ] n. a variety of traditional friend

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[piɁreɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet

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[pila] n. a variety of liquid dish obtained by filtering ashes of particular plants

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[pĩbú] adj. individualistic; personal

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Dialect: ant. búutw

[puʎã] n. peak; summit

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[puju] n. news

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Dialect: var. pwyu

[pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

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Dialect: syn. tano pvrv

[pɨgja] n. great hornbill (Buceros bicornis)

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[pɨɉĩ] n. moth

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[pɨrɨ́] n. stinging nettle

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[pjatɨ] n. a variety of rice

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[ŋǝǝ] letter name q ŋʌʌ the letter representing ŋ in the Apatani alphabet

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[rĩbi tasũ] n. spider web

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[rohĩhe] adv. thrice; three times

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[sa ciɁri] n. a variety of antique sword

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[salũ] n. medium sized cucumber

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[sardĩ] n. short-cut

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[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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[sarse] n. millet

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[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet

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[siɁ] n. urine

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[taɉǝr] n. a bamboo fish trap

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Dialect: syn. taxuñ

[talɨ́ mjoko] n. land of the dead who meet with unnatural death

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[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake

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[tatá] adj. color pattern of mithun bull, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[tooʎoɁ] n. a variety of flowering plant

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Dialect: syn. kwle toofo’

[turlaɁ] n. glass

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Dialect: var. tùla’

[une gɨkor] n. scar

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[xaarũ] n. a benevolent god that protects a household

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[xoɁkó-xoɁpè] adj. disorganized; mess; tangled

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[jamu] n. fire

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[jamuɁ] adj. ashy (color)

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[jaxo] n. stick

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[jorxũ hamã] n. toothache plant; paracress (Acmella oleracea)

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[ɲibo] n. guest

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[áagjaɁ] v. come to a wrong place or a wrong way

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