Apatani English

[aaxaɁ] adj. shallow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uuxa’ ant. aarañ

[abã] n. burning pain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[agoo imiɁ] n. hearth towards the front of the house

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[aháa] n. heart

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[aɉã-bɨɲǝ] adj. fragile; soft; tender

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[amjaɁ] n. penis

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[anɨ] n. leaf

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yanw

[artĩ ku] v. castrate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[artù] n. gizzard (of a bird)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asó] n. length

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[aɲĩ ɲĩpǝr] n. nipple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beẽ] v. shine, of sun; heat, of fire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨnɨ] n. female; damsel; lady

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjar] v. flip; flick

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cẽxo] n. scab (of a wound); crust

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[corkɨ] adj. smart; strong; rigid

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daci mida] n. mida of lesser variety

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. datw mida

[ditĩ] n. cliff; ravine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨdɨɁ] v. poisoned (by eating)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨlɨ kɨce] n. bamboo glass for measuring rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] v. practice; rehearse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎòohá] v. jump in

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõkoɁ] v. open mouth

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. goñpiñ; goñpyañ

[gɨrɨ] n. spring action noose trap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hǝǝ] letter name h the letter representing h in the Apatani alphabet

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[haapa] adj. flat; plain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haafañ, zipa

[hiɁ] v. whip; lash; flog

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hilu] n. gum

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiluɁ] adj. smooth; glossy; polished

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁbĩ] v. sweat

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁpaɁ-huɁja] adj. lavish; extravagant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉar] num. thousand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉã] v. be trustworthy, as the omen of chickeen liver or egg might be

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉuɲa] adj. wet

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juja

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karda-bjaɲi alo] n. Friday

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[kaxɨ̃-kamɨ̃] adv. look with confusion; unsatisfactory; disagreeable

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[keɁsí] n. scissor

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[keemeɁ] adj. taste, as of spoilt fat; rancid

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. keembe’

[koɁkɨ] prep. from

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[koiɁ] v. a way of putting on a cloth on the body, esp. by the males

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koló] n. in the olden days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kõci patã] n. labour gang that works early in the morning

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kupjuɁ kusǝr] v. rinse, esp. a container like a pot

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kupyu’

[laɁciɁ haɲa] n. small finger

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laama] adj. few; not many

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ice

[lama] adj. few; some; scant; meager

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. icu; ice

[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. jabyò aji

[lulũ] v. frighten by speaking; scare; intimidate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maɁlo] conj. either; or

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[mataɁ perũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁ] v. get extinguished (of fire or light)

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[milo rɨɉì] n. a variety of fern used in the construction of altars (Diplazium esculentum)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miŋo] adj. rich; wealthy; affluent

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. aró

[murpu] n. bonfire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨbiɁ] v. spill; splash

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨɲò] v. drill (esp. exercise)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nunukɨɁ] pron. yours; second person plural pronoun, genitive case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohó] adj. tall; high

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paa] v. find (esp. by chance or luck); stumble on; chance on

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pamu] n. raptor, eagle or hawk

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[paroɁ papù] n. chicken egg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ patǝr] n. cage for chicken

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paì] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pãxa] n. fan

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[piiʎa úì] n. God of Luck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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[pɨlo alo] n. Monday

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[pá] v. stack; heap up; pile up

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[ŋur] v. move something heavy using lever

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[ru-xa] n. noise; tumult; commotion

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[rɨbĩ] n. area of slash and burn cultivation

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[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɉʌr sɨ] v. commit suicide

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨro] n. this morning

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɨ ixa] n. cow dung

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁcè] v. cut into two

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taɁmopa] adv. strongly; bravely

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taaxè] v. lie on one’s back; lie supine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taʎa] v. listen

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talã] adj. brownish color (esp. of a cattle)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tamaɁ amu] n. fibres of tama’ tree used as cover of havershack or cap

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[Tanɨ agũ] n. Apatani language

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapo] n. a variety of hardwood tree

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapju] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tɨpjaɁ tarɨ] n. a variety of cotton top

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tú] v. kick

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[ukó] n. back; rear

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

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[xaataɁ] adj. dirty; stain on the face after crying

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[xaŋe ʎãge] n. water scorpion (Nepidae)

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[jaɁpu-jaɁlã] n. a variety of Muruñ festival considered to be of higher status

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[japĩ ubúu] n. nostril

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[jo] n. meat

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[ɲaŋo] n. five years

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