Apatani English

[aarda-rida] n. in the future; in the coming days

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[abju-axeɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

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Dialect: var. abyú-ate’

[adóo] adj. distant; far; remote

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Dialect: var. wdo

[aʎí-jasì] n. weather; climate

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[alóo] n. bamboo flooring support

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[areɁ] adj. sharp; honed

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[arɨɨ] n. bundle (esp. of bamboo)

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[arí] v. string together (beads)

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[ataɁ] n. stinger (on a bee)

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Dialect: var. wta’

[babĩ] adj. stark; bare, as of a field

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[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

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[bjaaɲó] adj. narrow (esp. of path)

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[bábì] n. swing; dangle

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[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)

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

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[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim

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Dialect: syn. lwwrw

[damu] n. wooden digging stick used as an agricultural implement

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[dɨnɨ paʎo] n. an element of a ritual altar

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[dɨroɁ] n. medicine; drug

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[eɁxaɁ] v. miss a target by shooting

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Dialect: ant. e’da’

[empu] n. a variety of white rice, usually late ripening

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[gaga] adj. quarrelsome

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

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[haace] adj. sad; heart-breaking

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[haaʎĩ] adj. beautiful; handsome; pretty

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[haataɁ] n. front; fore; foreground; anterior

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[harkó] v. bore a hole

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

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[heme] n. oath; promise

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[hẽ] v. think; love

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[hẽɉǝr] v. save up; save for the future

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

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Dialect: syn. hiizi’

[hiile] v. smile smugly; simper; smile coquettishly; grin

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[hɨɉã lopa] n. a stick presented to a child with developemntal delay by her maternal grandparent

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[hɨraɁ] adv. again; once more

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[háakò] n. entrance, entry, door

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[hùu] v. be fatty (as pork might get); be oily

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[iɁmǝr] v. sleep deeply

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[icu-abu] n. quantity

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[ikũ] n. beewax, used for joining broken threads

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

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[kalaɁ] v. recognize; know

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Dialect: syn. kaciñ

[karĩ] v. envy; be jealous

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[kaù] v. envy; begrudge

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[kiruɁ] n. hunting party

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

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[laalĩ] v. take out

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[lake] v. to cross legs

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[leɁ] v. lop off

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[leɁbeɁ] v. flap (wings) with helplessness

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[lĩ] v. exit; go out

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[lobu loci] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu

[lɨbã alló] n. knee cap

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[milĩ] adj. serious (of health status) adv. with great difficulty; by hook or by crook

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[mõpaɁ] v. chase; drive away; persue

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[mɨlì] v. take revenge

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

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[mɨró] v. enlarge; widen

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[mɨsì] v. do something secretly

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

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[mjobju] n. earthquake

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Dialect: syn. myobu hu’nwñ

[nar] v. borrow

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[nekã aʎeɁ] n. door of the toilet

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[pabù] adj. swollen; bloated; puffed up

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[paɲiɁ aɲiɁ] n. small rice grains that remain after sieving

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[peenɨ] n. ceremonial procession as a part of Murung festival

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[pɨɁpja] v. scatter by sweeping

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[pɨsa] n. pine

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[pɨɲu] n. spoon

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[pjaɲó] adj. small, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyarò

[pù] v. hatch (an egg)

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[ŋarka ɉiɉa] adj. smiling; smiling face; happy

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[ŋeɁko] v. open

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Dialect: ant. qe’piñ

[ŋɨi sɨpǝr] n. fish pond

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[raabúu] n. hollow

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[riri tami] n. a variety of creeper used as a vegetable; Chinese creeper (Mikania micrantha)

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[rõ] v. burn; scorch; set on fire

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[rui] n. ear wax

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Dialect: syn. yarú rui

[sarsɨɁ] adj. bland; insipid; weak (of liquor)

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[soxã] n. trophy; memento (esp. of special achievements)

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[tagoɁ] v. ignore (listening)

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Dialect: syn. tapa’

[takĩ ɲaɁco] n. cowrie shell

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Dialect: syn. takiñ

[talɨ́] n. unnatural death

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[tamaɁ amu] n. fibres of tama’ tree used as cover of havershack or cap

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[tamì] n. weed

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[tapã] n. algae; moss

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[tase] n. sago palm; tree fern (Cyathea gigantea)

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[tau jamu] n. firefly

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

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[ɨdo] n. stalk

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Dialect: var. ado

[xǝǝ] letter name x the letter representing x in the Apatani alphabet

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[xaŋ] n. bed; cot

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Dialect: syn. saq

[xeɁlĩ] v. take off; uncover

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Dialect: ant. xe’lw’

[xɨɨ] v. tie (esp. hair into a knot)

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[jarú huxo] n. ear plug

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[jaso] n. cane

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[ɲahɨ] n. daughter-in-law (term of reference)

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[ɲibja] adv. fast; quick

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[ɲime-jaru] n. rainbow

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[ɲimɨ] n. female

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