Apatani English

[aarǝ] n. portion of lower limb of an animal

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[akó] num. one; single

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[alì arã] n. bottom; base; lower part

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[anɨ] n. leaf

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Dialect: syn. yanw

[apyáa] n. tracks made by small animals

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[baɉi] n. time

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[basɨɁ] n. bank (of a river); riverbank; shore

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[bebuɁ] n. gun

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Dialect: syn. mubu’; bibu’

[bibuɁ] n. gun

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Dialect: syn. mubu’ var. bebu’

[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[caɲó] adj. small (of pot)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. cáarò

[ciɲuɁ] n. soot; impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of wood

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cortĩ] n. waterfall

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dar] v. break (as a stick); crack; snap

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[dĩko] n. metal skewer inserted horizontally through the male hair knot

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pwdiñ xootu

[dɨnɨ-barnɨ] n. wives of brothers (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨxuɁ] n. left over food

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[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] n. rehearsal

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[eɁdaɁ] v. shoot at target

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Dialect: ant. e’xa’

[ʎãca] v. flow up (of water); overflow

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[gɨtu-gɨra] n. traditional relations and ways of life

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pyañ

[heɁ] v. knit

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hogja takǝr] n. spotted leopard

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoi] v. be; happen

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[iŋɨ-ĩxeɁ] v. move around

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ita] n. brick

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapu] adj. similar; identical

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Dialect: syn. kapu-kalu

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

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Dialect: syn. keeme’

[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

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[korò] n. the morning before the last

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[kõcì] n. dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. goñcì

[kõtɨ] part. only

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[kutu] n. oil; pig fat used as hair oil

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[kɨ] v. punch; jab

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨɉĩ] v. stretch on tiptoe

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[kóò bo] n. nephew

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[li] v. sow; seed; broadcast

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[lukuɁ] n. shoe

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[lɨhĩ] n. toe nail

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[lɨŋǝr] n. ankle

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[ma] int. no; exclamation for negative response (esp. to a request or order)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mataɁ] adj. flat

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Dialect: syn. me’ta’

[me] v. search; look for; seek; check

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[metɨ] n. a ritual performed to protect plants from Pyodu Bwzi, the God of Famine

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

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[modu-mobo] adj. rude; undisciplined; unruly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[more pai] n. laughing thrush

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[mɨra] n. effigy in an agricultural field to scare away birds

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[mɨri-mɨɲa] adj. tiny; miniscule

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[mɨxaɁ] v. do something wrongly; commit mistake

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[nakú] n. uncle, esp. maternal (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aku

[neha] n. man; human beings

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[niɁ] v. trap (esp. birds with glue)

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[nɨsĩ-nɨmã] n. flora; plants

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[pace] v. cut into two pieces

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[pahe] v. pledge a property to the creditor as a security

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[pahĩ] n. liver

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[piɁreɁ] v. sharpen; hone; whet

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[pike page] n. a variety of glass bead

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

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[puhaɁ] n. crow

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Dialect: var. poha’

[pɨdi mɨlũ nanɨ] n. scarecrow to scare away birds

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[pɨgĩ] n. vulture

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[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pár] v. screw; twist; turn

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

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[ŋo] pron. I; first person singular pronoun

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[ŋur] v. move something heavy using lever

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[ŋɨra] n. variety of a migratory fish

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[rahɨ] v. rotate something

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[rilɨɁ] v. throw in

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[rupĩ] n. earring

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[rɨbó arò] n. the morning after three days

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[rɨgĩ] n. an element of gwrw (trap)

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[soɲó] adj. thin (of objects like a thread)

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Dialect: ant. sorò

[subu ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes

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[sumu] adj. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

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Dialect: syn. jiimú

[sɨbĩ] n. goat

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[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

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[taki] n. ginger

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

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[tapã] n. algae; moss

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taxó] adj. bald

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[taɲe] n. pus

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Dialect: syn. tarze

[tuuli] n. post; pillar

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[tɨrɨ tatɨɁ] n. toad

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[uu] letter name u the letter representing u in the Apatani alphabet

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[uskul] n. school

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Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[xei áʎò] n. cinnamon bark

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[xomjú] adj. tapering

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[xɨdĩ] v. add

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[xè] v. suffice; be enough

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[ɲagó] n. snout

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[ɲaɉeɁ] v. to make expression as when one is about to cry

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[ɲaŋa] v. put one’s head in

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[ɲiɁmo] n. face

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno