Apatani English

[aare] adv. quick; fast; swift

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

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[adóo] adj. distant; far; remote

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Dialect: var. wdo

[aʎoo] n. tongue

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[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

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[akó kõtɨɁ] adj. only one; alone

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[anoo] adv. very; extremely; awfully

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[apó xẽ] v. toil; work hard; engage in physical labor

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[araɁ] v. tie

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[aruɁ] n. outer covering of bean or corn

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[ato] n. grandfather or father in law (term of address)

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[axor] n. letter

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[babó] n. ceremonial pole of the Apatanis erected on the eve of the Myoko festivals

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[belũ] n. friend; audience (term of reference)

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[bjoɁhú] v. brighten; light up; illuminate

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[caaɲaɁ poro] n. outer space

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[ceɁceɁ] adj. stubborn, obstinate

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[cuuku] adj. upside down

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[du] v. drip (of water)

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[eneɁ] adv. without reason; without purpose; without work

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ʎaɁ] v. burn; singe; smolder

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

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

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[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

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[hiɁtĩ] v. bash against something

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[hiluɁ] adj. smooth; glossy; polished

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[hirã] n. molar tooth

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[hõ] v. burn (esp. in bulk)

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[humi] pron. whom

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[iju] n. anus

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Dialect: syn. koyu

[ɉaa] v. sway (as a drunken person do); stagger

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[ɉĩko ɉĩko] adj. lanky; tall and thin

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[ɉú] v. weigh; measure

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[kaka] v. have a look at; examine; inspect; scrutinize

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[kami] prep. at the back; after; rear of

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Dialect: syn. kokañ

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

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[kiruɁ] n. hunting party

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[kursi] n. chair

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. karo talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kɨce] v. break by hitting or punching

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[kɨle pẽbu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

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Dialect: syn. kwle pemu

[kúcì] adj. near

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[laɁsĩ] n. forearm

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

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Dialect: syn. icu; ice

[leɁtaɁ] n. animal skin rug used as a mat

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[lii] v. challenge, as in potlatch

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[lɨbã] n. knee

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[lɨciɁ-poɁdo] n. accident; mishap

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[lɨgǝr] adj. bent; crooked; not straight

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[lɨɨ] v. lie down

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[mikĩ] n. title used for dead males

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Dialect: ant. misi

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

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[mɨlì] v. take revenge

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[mɨxè] v. do something forcefully

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[mjamja] n. antique brass plate

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[mjɨ káanɨ] n. diviner

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[mjɨ-milo] n. married couple

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[neɁ] v. gnaw, as a rodent; nibble

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[nɨre puʎe] n. gunny bag

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[paɉeɁ] n. duck

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[papi] n. wood chip

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[paroɁ] n. chicken; fowl

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[patã áttò] n. a member of the labour gang in whose field it works on the day

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[poɁdo] v. stumble over or fall down accidentally

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[puʎã] n. peak; summit

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[puʎiɁ] v. peel off; strip off

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[pukũ] n. an occasion during Muruñ festival on which the relatives contribute rice to the sponsor

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[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. purò

[pɨi] n. solidified snot

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[pjaɁ] v. undo; answer (to a question put as means of ayú)

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[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pjatɨ] n. a variety of rice

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[ŋaatɨ] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaare

[raru hamã] n. a variety of wild vegetable

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[ro bariɁ] n. whirlwind

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Dialect: syn. mifa bari’

[rõpe] adv. four times

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[rɨbó alo] n. three days hence

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Dialect: syn. rwbóda

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

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[saɁpu] v. be confident; underestimate; underrate; confident

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Dialect: var. sa’po

[sapì] adj. flattened

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[sãɉe] n. timber; wood

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[su] v. evaporate; emit smoke

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[sɨcã mɨdo] n. universe

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[sɨlɨɁ] n. water container of bamboo

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[sɨtɨ bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

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[tabu] n. snake

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[tadǝr] n. parasitic worm

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[tapju] n. a species of bamboo

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[taxò] n. bamboo split used for demarcating land

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[tãxuɁ] n. leftover drinks

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[tẽbjaɁ] v. get burnt by touching something hot

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[turlaɁ] n. glass

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Dialect: var. tùla’

[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

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[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[jaciɁ] v. close (a sliding door)

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[jalu-jabja] n. stylish; fashionable

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[juɁti] v. tighten; tie something tightly

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[ɲẽ] v. chew; masticate

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[ɲime] n. general term for people living in far north

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[ápù] v. wrap (into a sphere)

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