Apatani English

[aarí] n. saw

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[aga sɨco] int. interjection to express indifference; let it be

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Dialect: syn. aqw swco; aga swco

[agáa] adv. quickly; rapidly; swiftly; immediately

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[alã] n. neck;hump of an ox; neck of a bottle or a pot

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[apĩ gaɁhĩ] n. ball of cooked rice

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[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

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[axoo] adj. entangled (hair)

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[aì] adj. heavy

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[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

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[bardĩ] n. fate; destiny

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[beɁpaɁ-beɁjaɁ] adj. reckless; impulsive; impetuous

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[bɨɨ] v. hold; keep; own

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Dialect: var. buu

[caaɉeɁ] v. step on something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuuki] v. stoop

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cuukw

[ciku] n. pocket; pouch

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Dialect: syn. ciru’

[dacã pɨcã] n. metallic pot

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[daɲi] n. sun

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[dompo turla] n. large bamboo glass

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[doomu] adj. cloudy; overcast

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[doorò] adj. big (of an animal or vehicle)

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Dialect: ant. dorzó

[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

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[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl

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[ʎãpĩ-cãtũ] n. protective deity in the household

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[gehe] v. yawn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gjaasi] n. mother’s mother’s brother’s patrilines; portion of the meat traditionally offered to such relations

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[gjo] v. hurt or kill accidentally

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[gòo] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

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Dialect: syn. pyañ

[haɁló] n. branch (of tree)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haatĩ bɨlĩ] adv. satisfactorily; confidently; convincingly

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁɉã] v. wring; twist clothing to dry it.

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiiɲiɁ] v. grimace; make face (usually in pain)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. hiicí

[hubur] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. hurbu

[huxo] n. handle (esp. of agricultural implements like spade or axe)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲò] n. the ninth day of the ten-day post-natal confinement of a mother and newborn

Speaker: Nani Anga

[imi nɨɁteɁ] v. catnap; doze

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[ĩci] v. reach

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[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

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[koopuɁ] v. sprain

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Dialect: var. kopw’

[kupjuɁ kusǝr] v. rinse, esp. a container like a pot

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Dialect: syn. kupyu’

[kɨ] v. punch; jab

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[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

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[kɨɉǝ] int. interjection of calling “lets go”

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[laɁtĩ] adv. forcefully; with strength

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[lama] adj. few; some; scant; meager

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Dialect: syn. icu; ice

[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

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[lɨɁsu] v. interchange; exchange

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[mataɁ] adj. flat

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Dialect: syn. me’ta’

[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

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[miɉí] n. orphan

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Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[muku sudu] n. smoking pipe

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[mɨbo] v. help (in doing some work); assist; support

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[mɨmĩ-mɨhĩ] v. do something without a purpose

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[mɨra] n. effigy in an agricultural field to scare away birds

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[mɨra] n. slave

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

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[nunu] pron. second person plural pronoun

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[paciɁ] n. an element of a rat trap

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[pahe] v. make a dent by cutting

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[paroɁ lɨgo] n. time in the early morning when the cocks crow

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pike page] n. a variety of glass bead

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[pilá aláa] n. rice water

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[poŋe] adj. different

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[potuɁ] n. photo

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pɨdi mɨlũ nanɨ] n. scarecrow to scare away birds

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[pɨlo huuto] n. moonlight

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[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

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[pjaɁmĩ] adj. orange color

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[pjà] v. destroy; dismantle

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[rapɨɁ] n. a space underneath

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[rica] v. throw something upwards

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Dialect: ant. rilo

[rɨɁpo] v. tie on something

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Dialect: syn. ra’po

[rìda] n. he day after tomorrow

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Dialect: syn. rì alo

[sǝǝ] letter name s the letter representing s in the Apatani alphabet

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[saɁka-saɁka] v. hesitate; be uncertain; be of two minds

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[santú paju] n. a variety of resin used as glue obtained from a jungle berry

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[sanɨ tero] n. Sichuan peppercorn; prickly ash

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Dialect: var. sañtú tero

[sãca] v. grow up

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[suh] n. spring

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[sɨbi bidɨ] n. a variety of monkey

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[taɁce] n. crack; rupture; split

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taɁkó] v. dig a hole or trench

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[tamù] n. a deity

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[tape hamã] n. vegetable of pumpkin leaves

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[taju] n. wasp

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[tãka] v. taste (drinking or smoking)

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

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[tero jorsã] n. green chili

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[tɨgò] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to propitiate benevolent deities)

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Dialect: ant. ciciñ

[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[uuɲó] adj. small (of hole)

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Dialect: ant. uurò

[jalã] n. stone

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[jamu mɨʎo] n. flame

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[jorbɨ] n. uphill

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[jorxã] n. Sichuan pepper

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Dialect: syn. yorxuñ

[ɲaɁtu] n. knife

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[ɲor] v. step on something

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Dialect: syn. zar

[ɲuɁ] v. wipe (as with a cloth or a hand); rub

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[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

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