Apatani English

[abba-ci] n. step-father

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[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[aci-aʎá] adj. precarious; critical

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[adú] v. make noise

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[aʎiɁ jo] n. pork

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[aʎĩ] adj. smart; bright; savvy

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[akì kíicú] n. puppy

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[alaɁ laɁpù] n. fist

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[amiɁ aɉã] n. one who cries easily

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[apɨ-asó] n. area; dimension

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[aroɁ paco] int. expression of happiness; thank you

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[attuɁ] v. close or block (esp. a hollow container)

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[axɨ sáa] v. have loose motion

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Dialect: syn. axw har

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

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[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

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[bɨlũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. buluñ-bwle

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Dialect: var. buluñ-bwle

[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

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[cãciɁ-doci] adj. nagging; vexatiuos; troublesome (of a person)

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[càa] v. take paddy from the granary

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[darɨɁpa] adv. cleanly; purely; clearly

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[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)

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[dɨme] n. famine; food shortage

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Dialect: syn. haaya-myoxa

[dɨxuɁ] n. left over food

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[empjaɁ tijoɁ] n. silkworm pupae

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[gaɁbɨ] v. hold on to something (as someone’s hand, a stick or a knife)

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[garɨ] n. vehicle

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[golu] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

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[haaʎĩ] adj. beautiful; handsome; pretty

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[heɁ] v. cut with a knife with the sharp edge away from the user, as in smoothening something

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[heɁtaɁ] n. wooden agricultural implement (esp. used during construction of bundhs)

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[hẽki] adj. sincere; honest; unfeigned

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[hɨɉã apĩ] n. food contributed when a newborn baby is born

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[imo] n. paddy

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Dialect: var. emo

[kadǝr] v. recognize properly; look properly; identify

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[kagoɁ] v. overlook; disregard; ignore

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[kanulo] n. weekdays

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

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[kaxaɁ] v. disapprove something; dislike; reject

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[koha] num. nine

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[koku dɨru] adj. bulky; oversized; massive; cumbersome

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[kusuɁ] n. hay; straw

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Dialect: syn. lwsi’

[loci] n. hook; peg

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[miɁbjoɁ amu] n. eyelash

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Dialect: syn. mi’be’ amu

[milò ĩ] v. to get married (of a female)

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Dialect: ant. myw laa

[mo] v. move one’s face

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[murpu] n. bonfire

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[mɨdù] n. time for doing something

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[mɨho] v. make a sign

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[mɨsiɁ] v. take one’s turn in doing something

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[mɨxoɁ] v. do something differently

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[mɨɲò] v. drill (esp. exercise)

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[mò] pron. he; she; third person singular pronoun

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[nelii] n. world of the dead

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Dialect: syn. nelii myokó

[no ho] pron. where

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[no hopa] pron. for where

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[paʎa-paca] adj. unsteady; staggering

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[paroɁ pɨha] n. basket of bamboo splits where chicks hatch

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[paroɁ roɁpo] n. cock; rooster

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[patã aɉo] v. hire a labaour gang

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[paxuɁ itú] n. a dance usually performed before harvest

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pẽbe] n. snow

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Dialect: var. piñbe

[pila sudu] n. bamboo container for storing pila

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[pĩciɁ] v. grasp something by pinching

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[poʎã] n. plateau; a plain area at a height

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[põcuɁ] adj. narrow

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[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

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[pjaɁ] v. splash; throw (water)

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[ŋar] v. laugh; smile

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[ŋɨʎã] n. variety of a fish considered sacred by the Apatanis

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[rade emo] n. a late ripening variety of paddy

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[rãda] n. smoothing plane

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[rɨɁpo] v. tie on something

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Dialect: syn. ra’po

[rɨxɨ arò] n. the morning after four days

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[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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[sãca] v. grow up

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[sãtaɁ] n. wooden plank

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[subu sihɁ] n. pond or puddle where mithuns gather to drink water

Example: Photo by Talyang Millo

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[taki] n. ginger

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[tamaɁ] n. a variety of tree

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[tamjó] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of black colour but a white patch running from the head to the tail at the back

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[tapúu] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of overall white color

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Dialect: syn. yapúu

[tarú] n. mosquito

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[tãsǝr patã] n. labour gang engaged in miscellaneous works in the agricultural fields

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[turcã] n. post; pillar

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Dialect: var. torcañ

[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[tɨlo] v. drop something from a height

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[tɨxe] n. louse

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Dialect: var. taxe

[tù] v. push

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[xaarũ agjã] n. altar for the xaruñ god

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[xirki] n. window

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[xɨnɨ̃] adj. costly; valued

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[xè] v. suffice; be enough

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[jasã] n. firewood; wood

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[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

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[juɁ] v. skewer

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[ɲapaɁ] v. criticize; disapprove

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[ɲãpo tasĩ] n. prawn

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[ɲime] n. general term for people living in far north

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[ákò] adj. low; short

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