Apatani English

[abuɁ] v. coddled; pampered

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[abjo] adj. endearing

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

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[agoo] adj. external; exterior

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Dialect: ant. ura

[ahu] n. body; torso

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Dialect: syn. ahu-apo

[alaɁ] n. hand

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[alã] n. neck;hump of an ox; neck of a bottle or a pot

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[alĩ] adj. wild; untamed; fierce; savage

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Dialect: ant. amiñ

[apiɁ] v. break (by dropping)

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[apũ-aka] n. confusing state; doubtful

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[apó] n. body

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[arlǝ] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

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Dialect: var. alvr

[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

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[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

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

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[dali] n. dried pulse usually prepared as gravy and taken with rice

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[dar] v. move or lift with a stick used as a lever

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[dekĩ] n. clay

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[diikoɁ] n. hard soil; lumps of soil

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[dobɨ-takǝr alo] n. Thursday

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[duɁca] adv. get excited; fired up

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[dulu káanɨ] n. a person who looks after somebody else’s cattle

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[dùumo] v. take rest

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[ʎoɁli] n. hilt; handle or butt of a machete

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[gõcã une] n. angular stomatitis

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[gjandi] n. debt; dues; financial obligation

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[haɁ] v. collect or catch (for example, fish from water)

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[iʎĩ] n. rectum

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[ixã] n. trophy for recognition of achievement

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

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[ɉooɉo] adj. refreshing; fresh

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[ɉu] v. winnow

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[kaʎã́] adj. equal; same

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[koha xage] num. ninety

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[koiɁ] v. a way of putting on a cloth on the body, esp. by the males

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[kooʎã] adj. round

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Dialect: ant. koofo’

[kurmu] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kormu

[lǝǝ] letter name l the letter representing l in the Apatani alphabet

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[la] conj. and

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[laɁbiɁ] n. dextral; right (side)

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Dialect: ant. la’ci

[laɁke] v. cross or fold one’s arms

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[laapjó] v. steal (by taking with hands)

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[laŋu] n. neck

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[luʎã] v. imitate speaking

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[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

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Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’

[luutɨ] n. grazing ground; pasture; meadow

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[lɨpja] n. shin

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[maɁbo] n. son in law (term of reference)

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[medǝr] n. purification; purification ritual

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[mepa] v. search out; find out

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[midĩ] n. nursery for paddy; seed bed

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[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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[mɨɉù-mɨmjo] n. ways of doing; custom

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[mɨme-mɨɉa] v. complete; finish

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[mɨmur] v. do something wrongly

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[mɨpuɁ] v. cover

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[mɨɲo] v. do something without purpose or for free

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[nãpja] v. scatter by pushing

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[nẽkeɁ] n. thirteenth lunar month of the year; December-January

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[paapi] n. a variety of flowering plant (Hedychium ellipticum)

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[pamã] n. bamboo rack in front wall of the house

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[parbo] v. crawl across

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[pataɁ] n. bamboo split; flat object

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[pãxa] n. fan

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[peca] n. a variety of wild apple

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[pepuɁ] n. mat; reed used for making mats (Phragmites karka)

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[pi] v. slice or saw

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[piiʎa papù] n. a variety of greenish bead

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[pimpú] n. grains of cooked rice

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Dialect: syn. apiñ pimpú

[pucũ] n. mound; heap; pile; stack

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[puri] v. read; study

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

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Dialect: syn. tano pvrv

[ŋarka] v. smile

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[ronɨ] n. madman; lunatic; maniac

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Dialect: syn. runw

[rɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

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[rɨko] n. a variety of hardy perennial creeper; sweet tea vine (Gynostemma pentaphyllum)

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[seja hamã] n. Chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)

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[sitãpa] adv. like this; this way

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[sosiɁ-sosiɁ] adv. in a line; one after the other

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[sudu] n. bamboo container

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[sɨɨ] n. cow; ox

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[sɨjĩ] n. a variety of carnivorous animal

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[tariɁ] n. body odor

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[tarì] n. hail

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[tẽ] v. keep in place; place something

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[tú] v. kick

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[ubúu] n. hole

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[utɨ] n. camel

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɨci-padɨɁ] n. doodlebug

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[xeɁpaɁ] v. undress; take dress off

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[ja] n. nephew (term of address)

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[jaɁduɁ-jaɁɲuɁ] adj. tattered; ruined; decayed

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[japĩ ubúu] n. nostril

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[jarlo] v. calm someone down

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[jaruɁ] n. a variety of plant

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[jãko patɨ] n. lion (Panthera lion)

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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[áakũ] v. come together; gather

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[áɉùu-amjò] n. appearance; image

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[ákó-ákó] pron. one by one; one after the other

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