Apatani English

[abù] adj. many; numerous; a lot of; plenty of

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[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-baró

[adĩ] v. add; include; incorporate; admix

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[aʎiɁ asiɁ] n. cage for pig

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[aʎĩ] n. pancreas

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[aʎí-aróo] n. storm; rainstorm; windstorm

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[aʎí-jasì] n. weather; climate

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[aháa baɁ] v. hate; loathe; abhor

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[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

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[arbú] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated var. abú; abúr Ant. aro’

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[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

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[ajo-nano] n. a variety of bee (hover bee)

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[ba] v. vomit; puke; retch

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[barbo-ʎibo] n. wife’s sister’s husband (term of reference)

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[bi] v. give; offer

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[bijã tɨɁgja] n. waist (esp. of female)

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[buʎã] n. traditional village council of the Apatanis

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[daaɲe] n. two steps

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

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[daruu] n. summer

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[diiʎã pákù] n. Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[diigò] n. matter; issue; work

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[dogĩ] n. genesis; origin; creation; migration

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[doɉiɁ roɁpo] n. Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella)

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[dɨri-hulo] n. prosperity (in terms of number of children)

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[ʎeɁpu] n. horizontal piece of bamboo holding the framework of a door

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[garpɨɁ] n. paddy field in the lower portion

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Dialect: ant. garta’

[gijã] n. cabbage leaf mustard (Brassica juncea var. rugosa)

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Dialect: syn. giyañ hamañ

[gɨɨ] v. move by manouvering

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[gjũtã] n. negotiator; go between in a marriage

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[harlã] n. thigh

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[hẽbjo] v. crave; desire; yearn; pine for

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[hixɨ̃] adj. tingling sharp sensation in the teeth; feeling, in the teeth, after eating sour food

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[hɨri-hɨxo] n. dirt particles

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[háatɨ mɨlɨ] adv. hopefully; confidently; optimistically

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[imiɁ] n. sitting space around the traditional fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kado-lili] adv. publicly; in everybody’s full view

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[kanuda] n. in five days; five days hence

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[karɨɁ] v. meet; greet

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

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[koʎoɁ] adj. bent; not round; irregular

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Dialect: syn. kofo’-koco

[koŋ koɲã] n. four years back

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[kormu] n. grasshopper var. kurmu

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[kursi] n. chair

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. karo talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kɨmì] n. poison (esp. of snake); snake venom

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Dialect: var. kwmè

[laɁbu] n. sleeve; part of a garment that covers the arms

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[laɁko] n. button; an element of babo which is a horizontal stick on the body

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[laɁta] v. open the hand; unclench the fist

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[laŋe] num. hundred

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[li] v. sow; seed; broadcast

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[lulù-lugo] v. disturb by speaking

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Dialect: syn. lulù

[luti] v. say again; repeat speaking; reiterate; restate

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[lɨpiɁ] n. numbness of the limbs

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[lɨpĩ] n. upper portion of the foot

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[male baɁnɨ] n. porter; carrier

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[meɁsiɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’ me’me; tusi’

[miɉí] n. orphan

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Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[milã] n. a variety of weed usually in the paddy fields

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[mɨgjaɁ] v. do wrongly; commit a mistake

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[mɨmiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

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Dialect: syn. ami’

[mɨpiɁ] v. break something fragile like an egg

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[mɨtù] n. beginning

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[mɨxu] v. demarcate; delineate; separate

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[mɨxɨ̃-mɨmjɨ̃] adv. do something in a confused way

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[neli] adj. fragrant; appetizing smell

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[nunumi] pron. you (plural); second person plural pronoun, accusative case

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[pacu] n. chick

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

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[pɨra] adj. infertile (of egg)

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[pjã] v. swell, as of wound

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Dialect: syn. gòobu

[ŋaatɨ] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaare

[rimjoɁ-riso] adj. striped; streaked; variegated

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Dialect: syn. ripó-rilo

[runɨ] n. madman; lunatic; maniac

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Dialect: var. ronw

[rũtì] v. crouch with heads lowered

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[sãbjũ] v. immerse; submerge; soak in water

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[sãxó] n. smoke-dried meat

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[soɉã] n. lizard

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[suɁ] v. ladle; scoop

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

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

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[tai belã] n. a variety of acacia tree usually used for hedges

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[talo pɨɲu] n. spoon

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[Tanɨ] n. Apatani tribe; people of Apatani tribe

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[tapeɁ] n. leech

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Dialect: var. twpe’

[taŋu-aruɁ] n. honeycomb

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[telĩ] v. push something out

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Dialect: ant. telw’ etym. teñ + aliñ

[ɨŋa] n. baby

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[xã] v. narrate; gossip

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[xuu] adj. old

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[xɨdĩ] v. add

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[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

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[xɨŋɨ-xaŋa] adj. muddle

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[jaaxuɁ] n. residue of something after rotting or decomposition

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[ɲaɲiɁ] n. honey

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Dialect: syn. zazo

[ɲãbũ] v. put one’s head into the water

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Dialect: syn. zañbyuñ

[áamì] n. cat

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[áʎò] n. skin; covering

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[ájò jooʎã] n. late night

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[úì pami] n. goose pimples

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