Apatani English

[aci takǝr] n. star

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[akì tapúu] n. dog of white color

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[armĩ] adj. ripe

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Dialect: var. amiñ

[bar] v. carry something with a horizontal bar or a rod

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[beɁxo] v. peel off; pare; flake

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[bɨɨ] v. hold; keep; own

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Dialect: var. buu

[bjoɁdá] adj. bright; brilliant

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[cibjɨ] adj. smart; quick; agile

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Dialect: syn. byací

[daci mida] n. mida of lesser variety

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Dialect: ant. datw mida

[dĩ] v. pound with something

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[duxu-paʎo] n. luggage; household articles

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[eneɁ] adv. without reason; without purpose; without work

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ʎaɁ] v. lick

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[gaɉor] n. carrot

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gõcã une] n. angular stomatitis

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[harú] adj. popular (as of one’s personality)

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[hẽ] v. think; love

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[hiluɁ] adj. smooth; glossy; polished

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[hoɁgjo-hoɁʎo] n. mixed up; mingle; intermingle; amalgamate

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Dialect: syn. ho’yo-ho’ci

[hor] v. dry; harden (as of paddy in sun)

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[hukɨ] pron. whose

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[iɁŋǝr] v. snore

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[ɉaa] v. sway (as a drunken person do); stagger

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[ɉixe tarɨ] n. a kind of shirt (esp. for males)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kacǝr] v. see meticulously

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[kapa] v. find; discover; see

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[kapanɨ] n. witness

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[ke] v. write

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[kokǝr] v. arrange a string (like a cane) into a circular form

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[kooʎĩ] n. the evening before the last

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[kore-kore] adv. with short quick steps

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[kortú] n. metal capping at the end of the handle of a ceremonial sword (ci’rì)

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[koɲã ɲaŋe] n. three years back

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[kɨlè] n. tobacco leaves, esp. fresh ones

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Dialect: syn. muku

[kɨri harnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

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Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw

[kúcì] adj. near

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[laɁso] n. middle finger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and middle finger

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Dialect: syn. la’ci’ lwpá

[leɁpì] n. Chinese green onion (Allium fistulosum)

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Dialect: syn. tale’; twle’

[lohè] post. till; until

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[lulù-lugo] v. disturb by speaking

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Dialect: syn. lulù

[lɨ] v. plant

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[ma] int. no; exclamation for negative response (esp. to a request or order)

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[mataɁ] adj. flat

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Dialect: syn. me’ta’

[meɁtaɁ] adj. flat

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Dialect: syn. mata’

[meciɁ-mei] v. search minutely

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[mɨɉaɁ] v. tear something by handing it

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[mɨlã] pron. all; everybody

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Dialect: syn. jimvr

[mɨxè] v. do something forcefully

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[mɨxó] v. do something leading to bankruptcy

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[mjã] v. name

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[mjogu] v. migrate; relocate; resettle

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[mò aɲi] pron. they (two); third person dual pronoun

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[nalò] v. push down

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Dialect: var. nañlò

[nar] v. borrow

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[nɨ] pron. what

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[paxɨ̃] v. blunt a sharp weapon by cutting on a hard material

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[paì] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[pee] v. chant producing a characteristic sound “ho ho…”

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[pesuɁ] n. hornbill

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[pilã-pisã] adj. light yellow

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[poɁdo] n. accident

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[poɁɉuɁ] v. crouch; cower

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[pudu appú] n. a variety of flowering plant; Indian oleander (Nerium indicum)

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[puʎe] n. cloth

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[puju] n. news

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Dialect: var. pwyu

[pũdeɁ] v. bulge; swell

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[pɨdi] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

[pɨmɨ] n. June; sixth lunar month of the year

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[párkó] v. drill a hole

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[rõ] v. break relationship; avoid (esp. a relation); antipathy; abhorrence

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[rɨbĩ] n. area of slash and burn cultivation

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[sabeɁ] n. key

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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[sãxã] n. rubber

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

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[sijo] n. this night; tonight

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[sorɉĩ] adj. straight

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[soɲó] adj. thin (of objects like a thread)

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Dialect: ant. sorò

[suɁ] v. probe; explore; investigate

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[suʎu] adj. empty (of feeling)

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[sɨloda] adv. today

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[sù] v. rear; breed; bring up; nurture

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[tahɨ] v. ask; inquire; interrogate

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. taka

[taiɁ koja] n. gonorrhea

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[taxɨ] n. squirrel

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[taɲe] n. pus

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Dialect: syn. tarze

[taɲiɁ pamɨ] n. corn powder

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[tiɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe off; rub out

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[turcã] n. post; pillar

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Dialect: var. torcañ

[uu] letter name u the letter representing u in the Apatani alphabet

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[une gɨkor] n. scar

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[ɨrɨɨ] n. horn

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Dialect: syn. arww; swrww

[ɨtɨ bɨrɨ] n. bamboo shoot

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Dialect: syn. behé, byapu’, wtw rwbw

[xaataɁ] adj. dirty; stain on the face after crying

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[xẽ] v. toil

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Dialect: syn. apó xeñ

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

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[jaa] v. rot; decay; decompose

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[ɲaɁtu] n. knife

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[úì taɲiɁ] n. cobra lily (Arisaema sp.)

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