Apatani English

[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

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Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[aʎã xɨ] num. sixty

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[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

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[akã] prep. bottom; beneath

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[akó kõtɨɁ] adv. alone

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[akó kõtɨɁ] adj. only one; alone

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[alo sudu] n. small bamboo salt container carried for feeding mithuns

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[alũ] v. surprise, shock

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[apjoɁ] v. dilute; make a liquid thinner or weaker

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[arã nanɨ] n. cork; bottle stopper; an object to seal a container

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[arò-apĩ] n. meal in the morning; breakfast

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[asuɁ] v. sneeze

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[axɨ̃-amɨ] adv. confused; disconcerted; befuddled; dumbfounded

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[ajúu] n. long time back

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[ajúu mapà] n. in a short while

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[beɁtũ] v. shrink; contract; become smaller

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[bi] v. give; offer

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[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨdã daaraɁ] n. stiff cliff

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[bɨdí baɁlo] n. conspiracy

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[bɨraɁ] adj. mellow (of taste)

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[bjãtũ] adj. big and thick (esp. of flower)

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[cee] adj. small amount; few; scarce; scant; meagre

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[cíi] v. be extinct

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[dekĩ pɨcã] n. clay pot

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[diiha] n. clay soil

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[doopɨɁ] v. sleep together with head in same direction

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Dialect: ant. doosi’

[ʎaɁka] v. taste (by licking)

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[gaɁce] v. break by clutching something

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Dialect: ant. ga’po

[galo sudu] n. metallic smoking pipe

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[genɨ nã] v. blame someone else for one’ own mistake

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[guŋa] v. lie down (esp. of quadruplets)

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[gɨɁha] v. lie down

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[haaʎĩ patã] n. labor gang engaged in transplanting of paddy

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[hẽɉu-hemjo] n. character; disposition; temperament

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

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Dialect: syn. hentvr

[hẽxɨ] adj. scarce; meager; in short supply

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Dialect: syn. heñxw-miliñ

[hoã] n. back (anatomy)

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Dialect: syn. huañ

[hubo-hulo] adj. almost; roughly equal

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[hɨɉã] n. new born

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[hɨri] n. small particle of dirt

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[húì] v. fall

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[ɉokoɁ] v. opening something by lifting up the lid jopyañ

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[kamiɉa] adv. last

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[koɁrò] adj. big, of a bangle

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Dialect: ant. ko’zó

[koojo] n. the night before the last

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[kɨloɁ kɨloɁ] adj. glossy

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[kɨri pamjo] n. business management

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[laɁca] n. handicap of the hand; disability of the hand

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[laɁgeɁ] n. anticubital space

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[laɁpó kupù] n. biceps; muscle on the arm

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[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck

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[lobjoɁ tare] n. a variety of thorny plant

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Dialect: var. lobyo’ twre

[luxɨ̃-lumɨ̃] v. speak in a confused way; speak nervously

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[mǝǝ] letter name m the letter representing m in the Apatani alphabet

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[miɁɉũ] adj. lethargic or inactive (of a person)

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[mɨcĩ] v. know how to do

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[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

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[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

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[mɨŋu-mɨre] v. discriminate

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[narɨ ahì] n. lemon

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[nɨɁrɨɁ] v. run into somebody

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[nɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

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Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[oho gɨ] v. be pregnant

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[pacu jagɨ] n. a small cane basket used as a measure of grain

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[pamu] n. raptor, eagle or hawk

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[pajaɁ-gaajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

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Dialect: syn. paya’

[pẽ] v. build; construct

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Dialect: var. piñ

[pẽgu] v. warm

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[pẽko] n. intermediate position; middle

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Dialect: syn. puñko

[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

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[pũdeɁ] v. bulge; swell

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[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

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[pɨɉo] post. a moment ago

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[pjatɨ] n. a variety of rice

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[pàr] v. solidify; bake

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[ŋur] v. move something heavy using lever

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[ŋurca] v. move up something heavy using lever

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[rubĩ] n. earlobe

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Dialect: syn. yarú rubiñ

[rɨbó alo] n. three days hence

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Dialect: syn. rwbóda

[ríi] v. sew; stitch

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[sardĩ] v. take a short cut

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[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨɨ hɨbo] n. ox

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[sɨxɨ] n. gravel

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Dialect: syn. diixw

[taɁmú] n. betel

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

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[talũ] adj. an infertile woman

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[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey

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[toɁ] v. descend; go down; climb down

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[tɨmo] v. suspend; postpone

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[ugja-ragja] adj. with lots of holes

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[urú] n. family

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[ɨrã] n. storage space usually built outside the main wall of the house

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[xɨŋɨ-xaŋa] adj. muddle

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[jalo biɁ] v. echo; resonate; reverberate

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[jaxo] n. stick

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[álù] adj. busy

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[árè] v. wash (esp. interior of a pot)

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[ásù-ale] adj. lazy

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