Apatani English

[abiɁ] adj. complete

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[abjá] n. ladder; stepladder

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Dialect: var. abrv

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[aʎí] n. air, wind

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[aʎóo kõsò] n. mantis

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[ageɁ] n. quiver

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[agǝr] n. bundh; raised earthen boundary between paddy fields where millet is planted

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

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[alló] n. bone

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[amí-abã] n. elders

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[asuɁ] adj. dud crop; fuitless; unproductive

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Dialect: ant. abiñ

[auɁ] n. traditional red cane belt

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[baɉi] n. time

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[be] v. fasten or tie

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[behe] n. bamboo shoot

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Dialect: syn. byapu’, wtw rwbw, wtw bwrw

[bjaɲó] adj. small (esp. of flower)

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[corɉĩ] adj. straight

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[cuuɲi] n. water beetle

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Dialect: syn. yasi anw

[ditũ] n. social event; occasion

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Dialect: syn. dituñ-potuñ

[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

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[dɨru] adj. tasteless; unpleasant to eat

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Dialect: ant. dwpyò

[garɨ] n. vehicle

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[gɨri] n. pigsty

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[gɨɨrò] adj. big (of a basket)

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Dialect: ant. gwwzó

[ha] v. come; arrive; enter

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Dialect: syn. áa

[haapa] adj. flat; plain

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Dialect: syn. haafañ, zipa

[heɁteɁ] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

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[hɨro hamã] n. a variety of eggplant taken as vegetable

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[hú] v. pound; pummel

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[imo] n. paddy

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Dialect: var. emo

[ĩdũ] v. go around; wander; roam

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[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

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[ɉí] v. roll; spin; rotate; turn round and round

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[karmú] v. look with anger or disapproval

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[kebaɁ-kela] v. hug or embrace in an intimate way; hug in a playful way

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[kõtɨ] part. only

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

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[laɁgeɁ] n. anticubital space

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[lace] n. a part of bride price which a close relative of the bride is entitled to

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[lãcã] adj. red

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[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village

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Dialect: ant. jabyò aji

[lɨpa] n. middle; center

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[mepi] n. a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

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Dialect: syn. mepi hamañ

[mẽ] v. kill; assassinate; execute; slaughter

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[milo rɨɲe] n. a variety of fern used in the construction of altars (Diplazium esculentum)

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[moiɁ] adj. turbid; muddy; murky

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[mjobju] n. earthquake

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Dialect: syn. myobu hu’nwñ

[no ho] pron. where

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[no hopa] pron. for where

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[nu] v. collect; accumulate; assemble; stockpile

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[nɨɁ] v. prick; stab

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[opis] n. office

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Dialect: or. English

[patɨ] n. tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)

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[peɁ] v. tuck something in; insert

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[piɁɲi xaŋe] num. eighty

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[poɁlã] n. grass

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[poɁle] v. stretch the truth; exaggerate

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[poxe] n. a variety of beer considered inferior in quality

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[pɨbjɨ] adj. cunning, clever, quick

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[pɨleɁ] n. feather

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[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pjarò] adj. big, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyazó

[pjoɁxoɁ] v. have a different opinion

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[pì] v. divine an omen by examining an egg

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[rǝǝ] letter name r the letter representing r in the Apatani alphabet

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[rui] n. ear wax

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Dialect: syn. yarú rui

[rupĩ] n. earring

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[sah] n. tea

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[saiklo] v. bicycle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[saroɁ sanɨ] n. banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis)

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[setu] v. stop by pulling

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[sor] v. complain; protest

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[sumù] n. sand

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[sɨtɨ ahi] n. elephant tusk

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[sɨɲã-sɨlò] adv. now a days; these days

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[sár] v. rip; tear

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[tabjo] n. a species of bamboo (Chimonobambusa callosa)

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[tace] v. divide; distribute

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[takǝr] n. star

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[tasã] n. ornament

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[taxɨɁ] n. head louse

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[tã] v. drink; smoke

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[toɁpjo] v. descend first

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[tumbu ude] n. tent

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[tɨ] v. offer

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[tɨɨ] v. throw; toss; fling

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[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

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[uunɨ] n. main entrance of a hole

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Dialect: ant. uusvr

[ɨci riimi] n. spider

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Dialect: syn. riimi; riñbi

[xaci] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. yo bade; bade

[xẽɉiɁ amú] n. hair on the temple

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[xugjuɁ] n. funnel shaped cane or bamboo distiller

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[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

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[jamu] n. fire

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[japĩ ái] n. epistaxis; bleeding from the nose

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[jasi parĩ] n. stork (Ciconia nigra)

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[ɲaɁco] n. tiny metal bell

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Dialect: syn. fa’co

[ɲaapaɁ] v. insult; slander; discredit

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[ádù] v. get pricked (by a thorn)

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[áʎò] n. skin; covering

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