Apatani English

[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ací-baró

[alɨɁ] v. exchange; interchange; swap

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[apĩ gaɁhĩ] n. ball of cooked rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arná] v. choke

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[asuɁ] v. sneeze

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axeɁ] n. kidney

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. arxe’

[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barbo-ʎibo] n. wife’s sister’s husband (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁ] v. spring, something under tension; leap (as frogs do)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bijã] n. girdle (esp. of female used to hold the skirt)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bijã tɨɁgja] n. waist (esp. of female)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[buutɨ] n. community; society

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[caambjó] n. war; dispute; battle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. gyambo

[ceɁga] adj. argumentative; quarrelsome; belligerant; captious

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ciɁpi] n. wooden door frame

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cuukiɁ] n. metallic poker; safety pin

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ufañ kuti

[daanɨ] n. a gift item on the occasion of Mida, a part of Apatani marriage ceremony

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[didu] n. liquid container of bamboo

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Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dije’

[doɲaɁ] n. sunny day; cloudless day

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imo

[ʎaɁ] v. lick

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎeɁpu] n. horizontal piece of bamboo holding the framework of a door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõpĩ] v. close mouth

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpyañ

[guli] n. bullet

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gjáa] v. spread (esp. seeds or sand by throwing)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haapũ] n. gap (in space or time)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽko-hẽpe] adj. confused; perplexed; baffled

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽpjo] adj. happy, delighted

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽsǝr] adj. not having any burden or impediment

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hĩ] v. pinch

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iʎĩ] n. rectum

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩgja] n. space between the fireplace and the side wall of a traditional house

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Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kageɁ] v. look at

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[kaxè] v. look in anger

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kelaɁ] n. good writer; one who writes well

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kotǝr] n. bamboo sticks used as counters

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kõtɨ] part. only

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[kɨle pẽbu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

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Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwle pemu

[laɁŋǝr] n. wrist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽbo] n. road

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. lembo

[loci] n. hook; peg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨbiɁ] n. right (leg)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨciɁ] n. toe

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[mataɁ perũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miikɨ] adj. belonging to others; not own

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[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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Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mura] n. seat

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨbjaɁ] v. hurt by causing burns

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨkĩ] v. show how something is done; demonstrate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨmeɁ] v. initiate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨnì] v. prune; trim

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[naɁbu-gõbu] adj. pouting; swollen (esp. around the mouth)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nala pakaɁ] n. drain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nala

[neɁ] v. gnaw, as a rodent; nibble

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelii mjokó] n. world of the dead

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nelii

[oho] n. child; son; daughter

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paapɨ] n. a distinct plot in a vegetable garden

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paʎù] n. a variety of bird; parakeet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paga] v. spread the legs apart

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pagǝr] v. build or repair bundhs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[papuu] n. white (esp. hen)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pã] v. cook by steaming in bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁ] v. bear; put up with

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[piiʎa úì] n. God of Luck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pilã kamo] adj. dark yellow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pipo] v. cut accidentally with something sharp

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩbè] n. snow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. peñbè

[poɁlã] n. grass

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poli-poli] adv. rapidly; swiftly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɁpaɁ] v. sweep away

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨɲu] n. spoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋarka ɉiɉa] adj. smiling; smiling face; happy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rapɨ] v. position breadthwise

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. rasó

[rɨbɨ] n. railing

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sǝǝ] letter name s the letter representing s in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sa] n. rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁ] v. breath; suck; cough

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sati] n. umbrella

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sɨlo bɨʎo] n. recently; lately; now a days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁti] n. cockroach

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taɁxeɁ] v. lie supine

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tadoɁ tasã] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tado’

[tarsi] n. wall

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tasi

[tartu] v. break

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tã] v. drink; smoke

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãru] adj. bad in taste (of drinks)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: ant. tañpyo

[toɁ] v. descend; go down; climb down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨxe] n. louse

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taxe

[túhɨ-túxeɁ] v. kick to and fro with the limb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨci riimi] n. spider

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. riimi; riñbi

[xa] v. peel; pare; skin; take the skin off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeda harnɨ] n. special messenger, usually female, who informs about a ritual like Subu or Muruñ to the traditional friends in other villages

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaanɨ] adj. rotten

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[jalã pombo] n. hairy caterpillar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaaɲiɁ aláa] n. honey

Speaker: Tage Kanno