Apatani English

[abba-apá] n. ancestor; forefather; progenitor

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

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[agoo] n. outside

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[ahu-apo] n. body; torso

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Dialect: syn. ahu

[apã keemã] n. male dragonfly

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[apiɁ] v. feed (esp. fowls)

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[asuɁ] adj. dud crop; fuitless; unproductive

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Dialect: ant. abiñ

[asuɁ] v. sneeze

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[ate] n. elder brother (term of address)

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[ajo-asiɁ] n. ancestors; progenitors

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[baarã] adj. interior (esp. location of a house)

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[bilã abíi] n. Red and white Apatani traditional skirt

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[bɨɲã] n. last year

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[bjurɨ-bjarɨ] adj. dirty; unappetizing; messy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ulu-byalu

[cǝǝ] letter name c tʃʌʌ the letter representing tʃ in the Apatani alphabet

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[dapo] n. penalty; prohibition; sanction

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[deʎã-rɨcã] n. bell used by priest during rituals

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[diixɨ] n. coarse sand

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Dialect: syn. swxw; súrù

[ditũ-potũ] n. ceremony; social event; occasion

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Dialect: syn. dituñ

[doha-dolo] n. world; realm

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Dialect: syn. dodiñ-dolo

[doolã] adj. brownish

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[dɨraada] adv. next year

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[elì] n. paddy seed; paddy preserved for next season’s sowing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎiɁla] n. the legs of the pigs sacrificed during Myoko which are usually presented to the cousins

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎi] v. become

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[gagǝr] adv. by any means; by hook or by crook

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gõcã une] n. angular stomatitis

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[ha] v. come; arrive; enter

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Dialect: syn. áa

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

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[henci] n. a variety of edible berry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽpũ-hẽka] adj. confusing; perplexing; complicated

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[huã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ

[hɨraɁ] adv. again; once more

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hárgɨ] v. run away; escape; flee

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hágw

[iɁce] v. keep a night’s gap

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[icã] n. dysentery; ailment with blood stained stool

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉã] v. be trustworthy, as the omen of chickeen liver or egg might be

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[ɉiʎũ] n. Indian strawberry (Potentilla indica)

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Dialect: syn. jifiñ

[ɉuɉu] n. winnowing

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[kaɉi] n. a variety of traditional dish

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[kamɨ] n. work; task; job; occupation

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[laakur] v. take back

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[laŋe] num. hundred

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[lobu loci] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu

[lumur] v. speak wrongly; say something by mistake

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[luuli hamã] n. Nepalese smartweed (Persicaria nepalensis); a variety of vegetable

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[lɨbã] n. knee

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[malo] n. roof of a house

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[miɁʎò] n. eyelid

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Dialect: syn. ami’ mi’fò

[miju] n. human beings

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Dialect: syn. neha

[mɨbjú] v. offend (by doing something)

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[mɨkoɁ] v. open

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[mɨko-mɨpe] v. disrupt; distract; disturb

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[mɨmjó] v. do something in advance

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[mɨpeɁ] v. complete; finish

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[mɨpja-mɨsa] v. scatter; disseminate; sprinkle

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[narbi] v. borrow for somebody

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[nɨ do] pron. when (past tense)

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[nɨpa] pron. for you; second person singular dative pronoun

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[opaɁ] v. give up; let go

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Dialect: syn. apa’

[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)

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[patu] v. cut something into two or more pieces

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[peɁ] v. tuck something in; insert

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[pepuɁ tabú] n. bedbug (Cimex lectularius)

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[pilã] adj. yellow

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[Pinɨ] n. Creator

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[poɁpǝr] n. bamboo split used to make sounds to scare birds away, esp. from agricultural fields

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[põcuɁ] adj. narrow

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[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. purò

[pɨdi pɨɲiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwfi’

[pɨʎe] num. four

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Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pɨsa saaxu] n. pine cone

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[pjo] v. open (as eye)

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[rumali] n. handkerchief

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[rupĩ] n. earring

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[rɨɁlo] v. pour a liquid down

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[saɁxɨɁ] v. intimidating; unnerving; daunting; formidable

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Dialect: ant. sa’pe’

[sabeɁ] n. key

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sado] n. boyfriend; male lover

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Dialect: syn. miya

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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Dialect: syn. xaq

[sãtǝr] n. a variety of glass bead

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[sãxɨɁ] adj. retarded growth

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[sosĩ] n. steel wire rope

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[sɨpja] n. dhole; Asiatic wild dog

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[sɨtĩ] n. bear; Himalayan black bear

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[tadoɁ] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. tado’ tasañ

[taiɁ koja] n. gonorrhea

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[tamù] n. a deity

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[tiɁ] v. rub; scratch

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[ɨtɨ rɨbɨ] n. bamboo shoot

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Dialect: syn. behé, byapu’, wtw bwrw

[xǝǝ] letter name x the letter representing x in the Apatani alphabet

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[xeɁpaɁ] v. undress; take dress off

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[xei áʎò] n. cinnamon bark

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[jaxã] n. large liquid container of bamboo wicker whose inner lining is coated with rubber

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[jo asóo] n. strips of smoke preserved pork

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[jorlu] n. vegetable garden located away from the village

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[ɲaanɨ] n. general term for maternal uncles

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[ɲaaɲo] n. honey bee

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[ɲãpo tasĩ] n. prawn

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[ɲĩpǝr] n. nipple

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