Apatani English

[aʎiɁ] n. pig

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[agũ] n. mouth; language

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[aɉĩ-apɨ] n. company; friendship

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[alo kamjã] adj. everyday; daily; commonplace

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[argò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon var. arrò

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[arũ] v. be possessed (esp. by evil spirits)

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[ate] n. elder brother (term of address)

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[ajóo tɨpè] n. pumpkin

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Dialect: syn. e’pè, tápè

[baara] n. fare; fee

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[boha] n. cane rope tied to a babó for acrobatic game; acrobatic game played on the rope

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[busã tabú] n. a variety of snake; Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis) var. bwsañ tabú

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Dialect: var. bwsañ tabú

[bù] v. uproot

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[daareɁ reɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

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Dialect: syn. da’re’ke

[deʎã-rɨcã] n. bell used by priest during rituals

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[dempjo] n. mouse

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[dooli] n. sickness; fever

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[dũbĩ] adj. bald; hairless

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Dialect: syn. duñxó

[dɨbe] v. eat to heart’s content; eat so much one cannot eat any more

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[dɨgoo] n. food; eatable

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[emǝr] n. dew

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[gaɁsǝr] v. strangle with hand

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[gomu] n. facial hair; beard; moustache

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[gjoi tabú] n. common Indian monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis)

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Dialect: var. goi tabú

[gòo] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

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Dialect: syn. pyañ

[hẽɉũ] n. comfort; ease; luxury; opulence

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[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something

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[hibu] n. beak

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[hu] pron. who

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[haágjá] n. entrance, door

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[hárgɨ] v. run away; escape; flee

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Dialect: syn. hágw

[ita] n. brick

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[iju] n. anus

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Dialect: syn. koyu

[ĩpó] v. cross; pass by

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[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

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[kago-tago] adj. showy; pretentious; ostentatious

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[kaɉi] n. a variety of traditional dish

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[kiluɁ] n. a small compartment in the granary usually for storng millet or agricultural implements

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[koode koode] adv. waddling, of gait

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[laɁciɁ lɨpa] n. middle finger

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[laɁpó] n. upper arm

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[lalala] conj. then; and then

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[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck

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[loɲãdà] n. two years hence

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[miha] n. boyfriend; male lover

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[murpa sai] n. fog in the horizons that is usually associated with the advent of Myoko festival in March

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[mɨlì] v. take revenge

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[mɨme-mɨɉa] v. complete; finish

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[mɨrã-mɨtu] adv. significantly; notably

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[mɨtù] v. do something for the first time

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[mɨju] n. ash

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[mjɨ káanɨ] n. diviner

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[nar pɨcã] n. earthen pot from the water of which a newborn is bathed for the first time

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[neha] n. man; human beings

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[nẽbu] n. a house away from the main street

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Dialect: var. niñbu ant. neñto

[nẽkeɁ] n. thirteenth lunar month of the year; December-January

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[o pɨro] n. lace bamboo used for filtering good quality liquor from fermented millet or rice

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[orbjoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: var. obyo’ syn. ba’so, wbyo’

[paceɁ] v. clasp; clutch; besiege

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[para] v. crawl in

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Dialect: ant. parliñ

[patɨ ahi] n. tiger tooth

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[pepuɁ] n. mat; reed used for making mats (Phragmites karka)

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[pidú] n. pork intestine along with attached fat; such meat of sacrificed animals traditionally offered to the eldest living sister by the younger ones.

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Dialect: syn. he’dú

[piruɁ jagɨ] n. a variety of cane basket

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[pijã] n. Indian mole rat; Bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis

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[pĩciɁ sarsé] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[pɨcó] v. make offering to God before food or drink in the form a morsel of rice or a drop of drink

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[pɨɉe] n. June; seventh lunar month of the year

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[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching

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[pí] v. bark

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[ŋoo] v. get lost; get missing; go astray

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[raɉuɁ] n. a variety of coarsely netted cane basket

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[roɁpi] n. a ritual of repentance after accidental killing of certain animals or human

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[roŋe] adv. once; one time

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[sarli] n. millet seed preserved for the next season

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[sarɨ] n. teacher

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Dialect: Or. English

[soɁko] n. jaw

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[soli] n. a sacrificial share of meat comprising of hind leg

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[sor] v. complain; protest

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[soxã] n. trophy; memento (esp. of special achievements)

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[subu tuɁteɁ] n. a variety of wild strawberry

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[suʎu] adj. empty (of feeling)

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[sɨcúr] n. stag

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Dialect: syn. swcú

[sɨgo] n. bridge

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[sɨpiɁ] n. needlework; needlecraft; embroidery

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[taabjó] n. a temporary hut

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[taiɁ koja] n. gonorrhea

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[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

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[tapeɁ] n. leech

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Dialect: var. twpe’

[tapo] n. a variety of hardwood tree

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[taŋu-aruɁ] n. honeycomb

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[tatũ bulũ] adj. chubby

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Dialect: var. utuñ buluñ

[ura] n. inside (as of a house)

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Dialect: ant. agoo

[ɨskul] n. school

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Dialect: syn. uskul or. English

[xeɁ] v. winnow

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[xɨ] v. slide while in sitting position; scoot

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[janu] adj. calm; peaceful; slow

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[jarú huxo] n. ear plug

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[ɲabe] v. frown; scowl

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[ɲoho] v. feed a baby after chewing the food

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[óòpa] v. find something by hoeing

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