Apatani English

[abú] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. arbú,

[adú] n. noise; sound

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. kúcì

[ahe] v. bet; wager; gamble

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alaɁ] n. hand

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[alǝr] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. arlv

[alì] n. leg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apa-ama] adj. simple; artless; guileless; innocent

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arũ] v. be possessed (esp. by evil spirits)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[balu] n. garden

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bibuɁ] n. gun

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mubu’ var. bebu’

[bɨdã] n. precipice; cliff

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɲiɁ-bɨɲa] adj. silky; delicate; soft

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bwza-bwza

[cahiɁ] n. miser

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cãtɨ] n. earth

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[damĩda] n. a variety of Apatani traditional dance, accompanied by bwsí

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲi alo] n. Sunday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dã] v. beat (with a stick)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doodu] n. drop

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[dɨsɨ] n. edible; food

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ektor] n. actor

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[gǝǝ] letter name g the letter representing g in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gi] v. operate a hinged door

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gè] v. mark; write

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ke, page

[hǝǝ] letter name h the letter representing h in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haago] adj. vain; haughty; vainglorious

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hemĩ-hẽɉa] adj. intimate; open (of relationship)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[henɨ] n. a relative; loved one

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɲi] n. pestle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[keɁba] v. put cloth on somebody

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keemɨɁ] v. rub into powder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kera pɨcã] n. cauldron

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kẽte abíi] n. a variety of skirt of black and white color

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koojo] n. the night before the last

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kormo] n. seed

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kõda] n. tommorow morning

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kuti] n. poker of wood or bamboo

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁkuɁ kǝrǝ] n. mole; a small burrowing insectivorous mammal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁpjo] n. palm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laatu] v. catch; seize; intercept

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. jabyò aji

[lɨhĩ] n. toe nail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨɨbũ] n. unnatural death, of a woman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[marbolu] n. marble

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[mepi hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mepi

[milo rɨɉì] n. a variety of fern used in the construction of altars (Diplazium esculentum)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨʎã] v. correct; rectify; amend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨhù] v. wake up; rouse

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ahú

[mɨkuɁ] v. make something fall by mistake

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨti] v. do something again; repeat; repair

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxoɁ] v. do something differently

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[narɨ ahì] n. lemon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paakuɁ] n. plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paaka’

[parlĩ] v. crawl out

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ lãxa] n. poultry house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩtú] v. lift something by pinching

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poli] n. seed

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[popǝr] n. butterfly

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[pucũ] n. mound; heap; pile; stack

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[puʎã] n. peak; summit

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pulĩ] v. manufacture; produce

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. puzó

[pɨcã] n. pot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨpĩ] n. bamboo mat for drying paddy or millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨju sɨle] n. information

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[ŋɨi taxũ] n. fish trap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁxɨɁ] v. intimidating; unnerving; daunting; formidable

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. sa’pe’

[sabũ] n. soap

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

[salɨ] v. plantation

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; sadi

[sampjá] n. wooden tray used for transporting soil from one place to the other in an agricultural field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sarse] n. millet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sudu] n. bamboo container

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨha] n. cane rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. saha

[sɨxaɁ] v. scratch; scrape; abrade

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁkó] v. dig a hole or trench

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tabjò] v. be attracted on listening

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talɨ́] n. unnatural death

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talɨ́ mjoko] n. land of the dead who meet with unnatural death

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tasǝr] n. variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taxe] n. tick

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. twxe

[taɲiɁ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taú] n. descriptive term for mithun bull with color pattern of dark brown color with while in the lower parts of the limbs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[túhɨ-túxeɁ] v. kick to and fro with the limb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ura imiɁ] n. second hearth towards the back of the house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨpɨɁ nanɨ] n. broom

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[xẽ] v. cut

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[xɨ] v. count; innumerate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamu mɨri] n. charcoal; embers

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japǝr] n. mortar

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jasi pĩta] n. water bucket; water pot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jato pano] n. an aquatic insect

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲapaɁ] v. criticize; disapprove

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibjoɁ] v. get free (as from a taboo period)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áakúr] v. return; come back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì perũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Kanno