Apatani English

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

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[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-baró

[ahi] n. tooth

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[akɨ] int. interjection to express pain

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[apa-ama] adj. simple; artless; guileless; innocent

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[apì-ara] n. clapping

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[ariɁ] v. choke; retch

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[arì] v. demarcate; delimit; delineate

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[aɲè] num. two (term of reference)

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[aì] adj. heavy

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[babó] n. ceremonial pole of the Apatanis erected on the eve of the Myoko festivals

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[bjaɲó] adj. small (esp. of flower)

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[ciɁ] v. hurl (as a javelin)

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[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim

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Dialect: syn. lwwrw

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

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[coʎo pakaɁ] n. small metallic plate, esp. to serve side dishes

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[daɁʎa] v. wait (standing); halt; pause

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[dã] v. beat (with a stick)

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[dãlò] v. beat something down; cause to fall by beating

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Dialect: syn. dañte’

[dĩ] v. pound with something

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[doha] n. world; realm

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Dialect: syn. doha-dolo

[dulu] n. the system of giving another person the responsibility of looking after a cattle

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[dɨpjoɁ] v. eat something to add taste to a meal

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[dùuhi] v. vacate a seat

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[eɁxɨ] v. kill by shooting

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[embĩ xãcu] n. cane or bamboo basket used as rice container

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[ʎeɁ] v. roll something (esp. thread between the palms)

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[ʎĩtũ] a variety of wild raspberry

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[gaɁɉeɁ] v. soften something by grasping repeatedly

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[gaarò] adj. large, as a field

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Dialect: ant. gartú

[goŋe] n. one mouthful; one word

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[gju-gjuro] n. trachea

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[haaɲa] adj. small; young

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[hemjó] v. plan in advance; plan

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[hoɁko-hoɁpe] adj. tangled; knotty

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[hɨbaɁ] adj. next; following

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[ɉaa] v. sway (as a drunken person do); stagger

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[ɉiɁ] v. melt; thaw; dissolve

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[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

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[kiluɁ] n. a small compartment in the granary usually for storng millet or agricultural implements

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[koɁbu] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

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Dialect: syn. ko’bw

[koogaɁ] n. occiput; back of the head

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[kooló] n. iliac crest

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[koro] n. saw syn. aarí

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[kõci patã] n. labour gang that works early in the morning

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[kɨlè] n. tobacco leaves, esp. fresh ones

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Dialect: syn. muku

[laɁpù] n. closed fisted hand

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[laakur] v. take back

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[lembjã-lerã] n. crossroad; an intersection of two or more roads

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[lii] v. challenge, as in potlatch

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[lurɨɁ] v. converse; talk

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[miha] n. boyfriend; male lover

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[mo] v. move one’s face

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[mɨtù] n. beginning

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[mɨxɨɁ] v. sprain

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[mjamja] n. antique brass plate

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[mjobja] adj. facing the sunny side

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Dialect: ant. myofi

[naŋe] n. a unit of measure equivalent to the width of a palm

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[nãpaɁ] v. push something away

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[nẽpaɁ] v. send somebody away

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[opaɁ] v. give up; let go

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Dialect: syn. apa’

[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

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[pã] v. cook by steaming in bamboo

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[pĩciɁ] n. mouse

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[poli-poli] adv. rapidly; swiftly

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[pulis] n. police

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[pɨɁpja] v. scatter by sweeping

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[pɨcó] v. make offering to God before food or drink in the form a morsel of rice or a drop of drink

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[pɨri papù] n. water bubble

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[pjo] v. catch by pinching with a pincer

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[pjoɁxoɁ] v. have a different opinion

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[ŋarsi] v. chuckle; laugh quietly or inwardly

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[roɁnɨ] n. hen

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Dialect: ant. ro’po

[rɨgĩ] n. an element of gwrw (trap)

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[sarxe sarse] n. a late ripening variety of millet

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[siɁ] v. urinate

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[supũ] v. ceremonial smearing of sacrificial animals with rice powder

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[supù] n. blacksmithy

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[sɨʎĩ sɨro] n. now a days; these days

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[sɨtɨ] n. elephant

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[taɉǝr] n. a bamboo fish trap

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Dialect: syn. taxuñ

[taxò] n. bamboo split used for demarcating land

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[taɲó] adj. small in number; few in numbers

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Dialect: syn. tozó ant. tarò

[teɁ] v. cut (esp. bushes)

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[temaɁ] v. touch

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Dialect: etym. teñ + mwma’ syn. mwma’

[tɨɁli tɨɁli] adv. frequently; again and again; over and over again

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[utɨ] n. camel

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[xeẽ] v. roast

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[xɨ] v. count; innumerate

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[xɨɨgu] v. warm something by boiling

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[jǝǝ] letter name y the letter representing j in the Apatani alphabet

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[jai] n. variety of bamboo (Dendrocalamus hamiltonii)

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[jamjo] n. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[japĩ tɨpe] n. tattoo on the nose

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[japĩ ubúu] n. nostril

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[jarlo] v. calm someone down

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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[joʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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[ɲiɁmo] n. face

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[ɲima] cop. there isn’t; copula negator

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Dialect: ant. do