Apatani English

[adĩ] n. head (anatomical)

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[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

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[ahu ará] adj. naked; nude; undressed

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[aɉóo] n. fare; wage

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[akì amù] n. dog’s hair

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

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Dialect: syn. aqw swco; aga swco

[arrò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon

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Dialect: var. argò

[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨɉé bɨɉé] adj. many; in large numbers; profuse; copious

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[bɨleɁ] adj. slippery; oily; greasy; slimy

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Dialect: syn. tule’

[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

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[caaŋeɁ-caaŋeɁ] adj. intense; stinging

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[car] v. boil

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[ciɁpi] n. wooden door frame

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[corkè] adj. strong (as of taste)

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[cíi] v. be extinct

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[dali] n. dried pulse usually prepared as gravy and taken with rice

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[deʎã rɨcã] n. bell

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Dialect: syn. defañ rwci

[doha-dolo] n. world; realm

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Dialect: syn. dodiñ-dolo

[dooli] n. sickness; fever

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[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

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[dɨdɨɁ] adj. poisonous

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[dùuha] v. sit down

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[ʎoɁli] n. hilt; handle or butt of a machete

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[genda hamã] n. Redflower Ragleaf; Fireweed (Crassocephalum crepidioides)

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Dialect: syn. hafañ hamañ

[go] v. fly; soar

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[gɨ] v. wear clothing; pregnant; bear (fruit or leaves, of a tree)

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[harɉeɁ] v. run over (esp. by a vehicle)

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[hẽpa] v. recall; remember

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[hẽpũ-hẽka] v. be confused

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[hu] pron. who

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[háatɨ] adj. hopeful; confident; optimistic

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[itú] adj. small; short

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[ĩdĩ-ĩkó] n. direction; way forward; way ahead

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[ĩgu] v. change direction or destination of going

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[ɉiʎá] n. coarse silk

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[kaco kapaá] adv. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

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[kaʎã] v. look after; help

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Dialect: syn. kafañ kada

[kahò] v. take note of; mark something

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[kako jalo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako talo; kvlo talo, kwrv talo

[karo] v. spy; peep

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[koʎoɁ] adj. bent; not round; irregular

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Dialect: syn. kofo’-koco

[kumur] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kurmu

[kũ] v. pour, esp. grains from one container to other

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

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Dialect: syn. muku

[leɁbeɁ] v. flap (wings) with helplessness

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[lemba] n. village

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[luɉa] v. finish speaking; conclude

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[luko] v. narrate; inform; recount; tell

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[lupjuɁ] v. spread false and damaging statements about someone; defame; slander;

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Dialect: syn. lupyu’-lusu’

[miʎa bariɁ] n. whirlwind

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Dialect: syn. ro bari’

[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

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[modu-mobo] adj. rude; undisciplined; unruly

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[mukú-mɨi] n. deposits of carbon particle from smoke

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[mɨró] v. enlarge; widen

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[mjɨ káanɨ] n. diviner

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[nar pɨcã] n. earthen pot from the water of which a newborn is bathed for the first time

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[narpaɁ] v. lend; loan

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[nelo] n. household; independent house

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[oho] n. child; son; daughter

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[patuɁ] n. prison; jail

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[pẽ] v. build; construct

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Dialect: var. piñ

[piiʎa papù] n. a variety of greenish bead

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[po] v. weave

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[popita ahì] n. papaya

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[posa] n. money (esp. coins); paisa

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Dialect: or. Assamese (Paisa)

[pɨca] adj. foolish, stupid, dumb

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[pɨri papù] n. water bubble

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[pjaɁse] v. wash by splashing water

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[ŋẽciɁ] adj. tasty; delicious

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[roɁko] n. a bamboo strip that tightens the beams of a house

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[rɨgĩ] n. an element of gwrw (trap)

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[rúu] v. shed (as trees do of leaves)

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[sah patɨ] n. tea leaf; tea grain

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[sapì] adj. flattened

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[sitã] pron. like this; this way

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[soli] n. a sacrificial share of meat comprising of hind leg

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[sopo] adj. slim; slender; svelte; lissome

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[sulú] n. fence

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[sɨxó] n. water channel

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[tabè] n. a variety of tree of palm family, the trunk of which is edible

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[tagjɨ̃ mɨjǝr] n. matchbox

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[tapũ] n. bat

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[tarkiɁ] v. bend

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Dialect: ant. tarjiñ

[taxeɁ] n. a variety of cane

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[teɁ] v. fall (esp. from a standing position)

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[turcã] n. post; pillar

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Dialect: var. torcañ

[tɨɁɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

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Dialect: syn. pujiñ

[tɨlo] v. drop something from a height

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[tù] v. flood

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[ugja-ragja] adj. with lots of holes

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[ɨskul] n. school

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Dialect: syn. uskul or. English

[xaarũ agjã] n. altars for the xaruñ god

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[ja] n. nephew (term of address)

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[jaaɉeɁ] adj. garrulous (of a person)

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[jamuɁ] adj. ashy (color)

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[jãko patɨ] n. lion (Panthera lion)

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[jorxã] n. Sichuan pepper

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Dialect: syn. yorxuñ

[ámì] n. tail

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[úì inɨ] n. one who can communicate with the god, esp. with spirits of dead ones

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