Apatani English

[aarí] n. saw

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[ahaɁ] v. hang something

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[aɉuɁ] n. weak person

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[aɉí sampjá] n. tray, usually of wood, used to move soil from one part of the paddy field to the other

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[alũ] v. surprise, shock

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[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

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[amĩ-aɉã] adj. docile; candid; frank

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[aroɁ paco] int. expression of happiness; thank you

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[artaɁ] n. portion; segment; section

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[arì] v. demarcate; delimit; delineate

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[asó] n. length

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[attè] adj. thick (of a liquid)

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[ajóo ɲacù] n. upper lip

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

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[barɉuɁ] n. netted cane basket for everyday use

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[ciɁ] v. hold (with both arms)

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[ciɁri] n. ceremonial antique sword

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[cimĩ] adj. docile; humble; modest

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[daɲi loʎã] n. mid-day; noon

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Dialect: syn. alo lwpa

[dã] v. beat (with a stick)

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[diɁju] n. marsh; swamp

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[diì] v. detach; peel

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[dɨpjoɁ] v. eat something to add taste to a meal

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[empjaɁ] n. cotton; wool

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Dialect: var. impya’

[ʎãca] v. flow up (of water); overflow

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[ga] v. scold; rebuke; reprimand;chide

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Dialect: la.wav?

[gasu] v. have verbal quarrel

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[gõdu apĩ] n. feast after settlement of a dispute

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[gɨtu-gɨra] n. traditional relations and ways of life

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[haaʎĩ patã] n. labor gang engaged in transplanting of paddy

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[haatĩ] adj. significant; important; notable; remarkable

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[har] v. cut (esp. meat); dismember

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[haspatǝr] n. hospital

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Dialect: or. English

[hẽɉũ] n. comfort; ease; luxury; opulence

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[hore] num. one bundle (esp. of thread)

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[hukɨ] pron. whose

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[hɨpe hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Elatostema platyphyllum)

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

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[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

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[kikuɁ] n. outer covering of bamboo shoot that falls off when it grows into young bamboo

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

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[kopɨ] adj. place or lie breadthwise; breadthwise position

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Dialect: ant. koso

[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

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[kucì] adj. near

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Dialect: syn. pwtì

[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

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[kóo] v. move the hips, as when closing a door with the hands full or bumping against someone

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[la] conj. and

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[laɁku] adj. sinistral; left (side)

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Dialect: syn. la’ci

[laapjó] v. steal (by taking with hands)

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[lãpaɁ] v. ostracize; vanish; drive out

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[lebe] v. be fed up of eating too much or too frequently of the same item

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[loxoɁ] n. a part of loin loom

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[luti] v. say again; repeat speaking; reiterate; restate

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[miɉuɁ miɉa] adj. cowardly; timid

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Dialect: syn. miju’

[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

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[muɁ] v. rut (animals)

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[muɉa] n. socks

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨʎu] v. waste; spend

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[mɨpĩ] v. close

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Dialect: syn. mwpyañ

[neha appú] n. primrose (Primula spp.)

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Dialect: syn. bagañ rizo

[nẽxa] adj. stale

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[nikũ dapo] n. customary law

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[padɨɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

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Dialect: syn. padw’

[pagǝr] v. build or repair bundhs

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[papù] n. egg

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[paroɁ roɁnɨ] n. hen

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[patǝr] n. cage

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[patúu-papo] v. hack something into several pieces

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[paxè] n. mesh, which may be of wire, bamboo or cane; lattice

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[peɁkó] adj. smart, of a person; strong, of taste

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[poʎã] n. plateau; a plain area at a height

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[potũ] n. witness in a business transaction

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[pũtu] adj. hump; ridge; bulge; swelling

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Dialect: ant. paka’

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

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[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching

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[pjo] v. open (as eye)

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[pjokoɁ] v. open, of eye

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[pjuɁ] v. sell

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[pjàpaɁ] v. destroy and remove a structure

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[reɁke reɁbja] n. ladder leading to the ceiling

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Dialect: syn. re’ke abya

[ridaɁ] v. throw at the target

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Dialect: ant. rixa’

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

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Dialect: ant. sa’pe’

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

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[subu sa] n. cane rope for mithuns

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[sɨʎĩ sɨro] n. now a days; these days

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[sɨni] n. sugar

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Dialect: Or. Assamese var. swzi

[sɨxɨ] n. gravel

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Dialect: syn. diixw

[talũ] adj. an infertile woman

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[tasĩ siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. siñbo

[tusù] v. break a relationship

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[tɨko] n. money

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨpjaɁ] n. a necklace with a few beads on a black thread used as a talisman

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[tɨɨ] v. throw; toss; fling

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

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[xeẽ] v. roast

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[jama] adj. poor

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[jasi pari] n. common kingfisher

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[jata] adj. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[jau] n. a color pattern of mithun with overall black color with white in the lower portions of the limbs

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[ácì] v. have pain; suffer

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