Apatani English

[abrǝ] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

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Dialect: var. abvr

[abíi-tarɨ] n. dress; clothes; garments; attire

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[aʎeɁ] n. door

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[aɉóo] v. hire; pay for

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[alo apĩ] n. lunch

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[amiɁ miɁtĩ] n. eyelid

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[amɨ̀] n. daughter-in-law (term of address)

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[arná] v. choke

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[ajò] n. night

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[baɉi] n. time

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Dialect: or. Assamese

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

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[beɁpaɁ-beɁjaɁ] adj. reckless; impulsive; impetuous

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[bebuɁ] n. gun

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Dialect: syn. mubu’; bibu’

[biɉe biirã] n. bamboo stump

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[buɁ] v. burst; explode

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[buuɲó] adj. small cylinderical object

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Dialect: ant. buurò

[coɁmjoɁ] adv. slowly; silently; stealthily

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[culu] n. a variety of children’s game

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[cáa] v. split; slit

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[daaɲe] n. two steps

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[duu] n. paddy for husking

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Dialect: syn. dwlo

[dùusa] v. sit at a distance

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[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

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Dialect: var. imo

[emǝr] n. dew

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[ʎagja] adj. usual; normal; habitual; customary

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[goiɁ] adj. whole; entire

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[gomu] n. facial hair; beard; moustache

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[gɨneɁ-gɨse] v. lightly touch with any part of the body; flirt

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[gjapja-gjasa] v. spread by throwing

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[gjopu] n. shooting star

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[haaʎĩ] n. fourth lunar month of the year; April

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[haasopa] adv. slowly; sluggishly

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[haatĩ] n. node (as of bamboo)

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[heɁ] v. dig (esp. with a tool)

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[hẽpǝr] adv. very; exeedingly; exceptionally; immensely

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Dialect: syn. hentvr

[hoɁjo-hoɁci] v. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

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Dialect: syn. ho’gyo-ho’fo

[huã] n. back (anatomy)

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Dialect: var. hoañ

[hũta-rẽta] adj. stifling; suffocating, of space; congested

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[kaco-tanɨɁ] n. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

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[katì] v. review; re-examine; re-evaluate

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[kaxè] v. look in anger

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

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Dialect: syn. keembe’

[kempa] int. interjection expressing sympathy

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[koɁ] v. to divine an omen by examining a chicken liver

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[kociɁ] adj. bitter

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[kuɁbã] v. keep something, esp. a container, upside down

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[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

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[kɨra] n. a variety of tree; oak tree (Lithocarpus dealbata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lar] v. challenge; bet

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[leɁ] v. lop off

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[lobjã] n. full day; day long

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Dialect: ant. lopo

[marlã] n. rust

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Dialect: syn. harti

[milò ĩ] v. to get married (of a female)

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Dialect: ant. myw laa

[mɨbjũ] v. help; contribute

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[mɨxeɁ] v. make somebody cry

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[nalò] v. push down

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Dialect: var. nañlò

[nɨmĩ] n. placenta

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[née] v. wrestle

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[pató hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Clerodendrum colebrookianum)

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[pajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

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Dialect: syn. paya’-gaaya’

[pã] v. cook by steaming in bamboo

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[pemiɁ] v. put off (light)

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[perũ jaanɨ] n. fermented soybean

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[pɨdi] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[pɨdi pɨʎiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

[pɨlo] n. moon; month

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[pɨlo kobjã] n. a variety of bangle

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[pù] v. hatch (an egg)

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

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

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[ŋɨɲì] pron. we two; first person dual pronoun

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[raɉi] n. plastic

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[rɨɁtú] n. a part of marriage ceremony in which paddy a newly married couple harvest paddy from the bride’s family field

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[saɁka] v. contemplate; consider; deliberate on

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[saɁpeɁ] v. optimistic; hopeful; be confident

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Dialect: ant. sa’xw’

[saʎó] n. a variety of tree; Fragrant Himalayan Champaka (Michelia champaca)

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[sakori] n. job; employment

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[sãxã] n. rubber

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[supũ] n. world

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[sɨbi bisǝr] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

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[taiɁ sɨtĩ] n. epileptic fit

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[taiɁ tapĩ] n. corn

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[tarpĩ] n. maggots

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[tihiɁ] adj. sweet

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[tõsǝr] v. advise; suggest; counsel; guide

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[tutu popo] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

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[tɨmĩ] n. Common Indian madder (Rubia cordifolia)

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Dialect: var. tamiñ

[ɨci-padɨɁ] n. doodlebug

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[ɨ̃co] int. expression of agreement

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[xè] v. suffice; be enough

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[jalu-jabja] n. stylish; fashionable

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[jama] adj. poor

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[ɲẽ] v. chew; masticate

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[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

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[ɲibjoɁ] v. get free (as from a taboo period)

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[ɲimaɁ] n. war; enemy

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[ácì] v. have pain; suffer

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[álù] v. to work

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[ásù] adj. lazy; slothful; sluggish

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