Apatani English

[aapu kai] n. showy; ostentatious (person)

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[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

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[abju] v. move; shake; flutter; budge

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[ageɁ] n. quiver

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[aɉã] adj. young; immature

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[alló] n. bone

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

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[aróo] adj. poor; destitute

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

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[bacĩ] n. box myrtle (Myrica esculenta/Myrica nagi)

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[birã] n. stump (esp. of bamboo)

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[bĩ] v. uproot (as of weed)

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[bĩpu] adj. round; spherical; plump; rotund

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[bɨɲã] n. last year

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[bjaako] n. kind of edible berry

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[bóo] v. pull; tug; lug; drag; draw

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[cĩ] v. know; comprehend; understand

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[diɁju] n. marsh; swamp

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[dooli] n. sickness; fever

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[dɨɲo-mɨɲo] v. practice; rehearse

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[dùusa] v. sit at a distance

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[eɁdaɁ] v. shoot at target

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Dialect: ant. e’xa’

[ʎiɁkũ-ʎiri] adj. wrinkled; crease; pucker; crinkle

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[gjàa] v. cut, with an inward motion of the blade

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[haapũ] n. gap (in space or time)

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[haaso haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

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[heŋa-hẽxa] adj. troublesome; worrisome; bagging; distressing

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[hẽsǝr] adj. not having any burden or impediment

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[hime] n. child; youngster

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[hõ] v. burn (esp. in bulk)

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[hɨbjɨ] n. bamboo branch

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[hɨɉo] n. a variety of bamboo

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[ɉarpaɁ] v. toss away

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Dialect: syn. jaapa’

[ɉiɉi] adj. blue

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[ɉoo] v. pay as wage

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[kabyo] v. yearn; wish to possess something or someone

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[kaʎã kada] v. look after; help

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Dialect: syn. kafañ

[kahó] v. get punishment for a sin; retribution

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[katĩ] v. compare; analogize to; equate to

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[kaxè] v. look in anger

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[koʎoɁ] adj. bent; not round; irregular

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Dialect: syn. kofo’-koco

[koode koode] adv. waddling, of gait

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[kõci] n. dawn

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[kõcì] n. dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. goñcì

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

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[kɨloɁ kɨloɁ] adj. glossy

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[káhè] adj. big; large

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Dialect: ant. atúu

[laɁciɁ lɨpa] n. middle finger

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[laɁhɨ] n. archer’s wristband traditionally of human hair worn to protect the hand from injury by bow string

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[lako-lape] v. exchange; interchange; keep something in disorderly fashion

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[lalĩ] n. footprint

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[lobjã] n. full day; day long

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Dialect: ant. lopo

[luga] adj. talkative; loquacious; garrulous

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[luhɨɁ] v. stammer; stutter

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[lukã] v. speak for a long time

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[lulaɁ] adj. good speaker

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[lumù] v. speak in sleep

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[lupaɁ] v. criticize; denounce; condemn; speak ill of someone

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[lɨbã] n. baby

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[meɁsiɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’ me’me; tusi’

[metɨ] n. a ritual performed to protect plants from Pyodu Bwzi, the God of Famine

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[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

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[mo] v. move one’s face

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[mɨgjaɁ] v. do wrongly; commit a mistake

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[mɨgó] n. hearth; fireplace

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[mɨɉo] n. reward for doing something; wage

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[mɨpu] v. do something inadvertently; commit mistake

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[mjamja] n. ringworm

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[mjoko] n. third lunar month of the year; name of the festival celebrated in March

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[nãtĩ] v. close by pushing

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[nɨmi] pron. you (accusative); second person singular accusative pronoun

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[nɨji] n. an element of loin loom

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[papù aʎò] n. egg white

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[parì-pagjò] adj. mosaic like appearance

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[pẽgu] v. warm

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[purtú pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. amu pèeruñ; po’tuñ pèeruñ

[pǝrǝ] n. large cane mat used for temporary storage of paddy during harvesting

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[pɨdiɁ] n. fart

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[pɨɨ] v. collect with palms

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[pjapjũ] adv. together; in collaboration; in cooperation; jointly

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[pjoɁ] v. detach (a splinter from a wood

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[saɁka] v. contemplate; consider; deliberate on

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[saɁlɨɁ] v. breathe in; inhale

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Dialect: ant. sa’liñ

[sala bortaɁ] n. cobra; King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

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Dialect: var. sala burta’

[sãbɨ] n. branch, of a tree

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Dialect: syn. sanw aha’

[soɉã] n. lizard

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

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[sɨre tɨxe] n. tick

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Dialect: syn. swre taxe

[taɁcè] v. cut into two

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[tano] n. thread; yarn

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[tõsǝr] v. advise; suggest; counsel; guide

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[tɨdɨ] adj. short

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Dialect: ant. wbyo’

[uusǝr] n. exit of a hole

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Dialect: ant. uunw

[ɨbjoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: syn. obyo’

[xa] v. peel; pare; skin; take the skin off

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[xuu] adj. old

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

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[japĩ tɨpe] n. tattoo on the nose

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[jo badè] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. xaci; bade

[ɲaaɲo] n. honey bee

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