Apatani English

[abba-apá] n. ancestor; forefather; progenitor

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[aʎĩ] n. evening; dusk; late afternoon

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[akì amù] n. dog’s hair

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[akì-paroɁ] n. domestic animals

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[akó-abiɁ] pron. everyone; everybody; every person

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[appú] n. flower

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[arí] n. price; cost; charge

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[asuɁ-asaɁ] n. disgrace; shame

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[axɨ] n. comb

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[axɨ] n. guts; entrails; viscera

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[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

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[aíi] n. blood

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[burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake; cobra

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Dialect: var. borta’

[bɨʎeɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

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Dialect: syn. bwya’ ant. alvr

[bɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

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[bjakú] n. a child with developmental delay

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[bjarbó] v. jump across

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[bjopa] n. cap; headgear

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[carxɨ] v. boil properly; boil fully

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[daɲi agjã] n. altar for propitiating Dazi (the Sun God)

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[dãxo-paɁɲì] n. weapon

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[didǝr] adj. fluent, as in speech; articulate

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[dimu] n. hair (of head)

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[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)

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[do] v. be; exist; lie

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Dialect: ant. zima

[dulu] n. the system of giving another person the responsibility of looking after a cattle

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[dùuha] v. sit down

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[ema] n. dream; reverie

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Dialect: var. imáa

[ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

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Dialect: syn. aha fiifi’

[ʎòobó] v. jump across

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[gagǝr] adv. by any means; by hook or by crook

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[gõpjã] v. close mouth

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Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpiñ

[guɁ] v. turn or turn oneself over (esp. in lying position)

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[gɨre] adj. crispy; crunchy

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[háatɨ] adj. hopeful; confident; optimistic

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[ii] letter name I the letter representing i in the Apatani alphabet

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[iɁce] n. a night’s interval

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[imi] v. sleep

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[ɉa] v. toss or throw a discus sidearm, such that it flies through the air; cause an object to soar by throwing

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[ɉilã] n. a kind of traditional shawl (esp.used by the priests)

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[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

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[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

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[kaco] adj. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

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[kakur] v. look back

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[kamó] n. bribe; kickback; inducement

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[karpjaɁ] v. unroll

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

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[koɁkɨ] prep. from

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[káhè] adj. big; large

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Dialect: ant. atúu

[laɁbiɁ] n. dextral; right (side)

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Dialect: ant. la’ci

[laɁpã] n. wooden community platform usually belonging to a clan

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[laakur] v. take back

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[lamuɁ-laju] adj. pinkish (color)

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[lobu loci] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu

[lotɨ] adj. honest; straightforward

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[lugjaɁ] v. speak wrongly

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Dialect: syn. luxa’

[lɨke] n. a loop of rope used for climbing trees

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[lɨpa] n. middle; center

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[meɁsiɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’ me’me; tusi’

[miʎa bariɁ] n. whirlwind

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Dialect: syn. ro bari’

[miimaɁ] n. a variety of hebaceous plant whose slender leaves are used to tie bundles of paddy or millet plant (Miscanthus sinensis)

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[mɨbo-lubo] v. participate; assist; support

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[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

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[mɨpaɁ] v. remove; spend

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[mɨxaɁ] v. do something wrongly; commit mistake

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[nama] pron. your mother

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Dialect: syn. nane

[nãpja] v. scatter by pushing

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[pala] n. scale; weighing machine

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[parmɨɁ] v. grind in powder

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[pila xugjuɁ] n. bamboo funnel for distilling pìlaa

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[pipaɁ] v. swat something away

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[poɁ] v. grow (as horns do)

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[poɁdo] n. accident

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[potĩ] n. an element of loin loom

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[pulu] adj. white

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[pɨmɨ] n. June; sixth lunar month of the year

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[pjaɁ] v. splash; throw (water)

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[riibu] n. a variety of fish; eel

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[sah] n. tea

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[so] post. at; in

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

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[surúu] adj. deceptive; crafty; treacherous

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[sɨlɨɁ] n. water container of bamboo

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[sɨxɨ] n. gravel

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Dialect: syn. diixw

[sɨxá] n. an altar

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[talo] n. brass plate

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[talu baɁlo] v. betray; deceive

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[tano] n. thread; yarn

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[tapǝr] n. an element of babo

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Dialect: var. twpvr

[tapju] n. a species of bamboo

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[taxɨɁ] n. head louse

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[tã] v. drink; smoke

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[tɨŋá] n. fruit

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[ɨrɨɨ] n. horn

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Dialect: syn. arww; swrww

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

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[xaci] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. yo bade; bade

[japǝr] n. mortar

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[jorsã] n. green chili

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[ɲaa] v. point; aim; direct

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[ɲadu-ɲabo] v. rebuff; brush off

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