Apatani English

[abba-bãkũ] n. great-grandfather

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[adã] n. spear

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[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

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[aʎã pɨʎi] num. forty

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[aʎĩ] n. evening; dusk; late afternoon

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

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[ajò] n. night

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[ajúu] n. long time back

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[aì] adj. heavy

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[aì-haaɉuɁ] n. weight

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[baarã] adj. interior (esp. location of a house)

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[bare] num. one (of flat objects)

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[buɁ] v. burst; explode

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[buu] v. hold; keep; own var. bww

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Dialect: var. bww

[bɨdí] adj. trick; tactic; strategy

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

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[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

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Dialect: var. beyuñ

[caãcú] n. cooking tripod

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[cãtũ] n. primordian protective deity of the Apatanis

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[ciku] n. pocket; pouch

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Dialect: syn. ciru’

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

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[doomu] adj. cloudy; overcast

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[dor] v. become a captive or a prisoner

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[dɨli-dɨlo] adj. grandeur (of scenery); beautiful (of landscape)

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[dùuhi] v. vacate a seat

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[dùumo] v. take rest

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[ʎǝǝ] letter name f ʎʌʌ the letter representing ʎ in the Apatani alphabet

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[ʎiɁdo] n. food for pigs

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[ʎiɁla] n. the legs of the pigs sacrificed during Myoko which are usually presented to the cousins

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[gõdu] n. arbitration; mediation; mediator

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[gɨɁi] v. fall down (from standing position)

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[haagja] n. entrance

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Dialect: syn. áagyá

[haaso haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

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[haʎã bjajũ] n. tomato

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haʎã gijã] n. cabbage

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

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[hẽpaɁ] v. ignore; pay no heed to

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoɉalo] conj. but; even then

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hokɨ] post. from

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲã] v. be shy

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ita] n. brick

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[iju] n. anus

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Dialect: syn. koyu

[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

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[kageɁ] v. look at

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[kapũ] adj. strange; bizzare

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[katì] v. review; re-examine; re-evaluate

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[kusuɁ] n. hay; straw

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Dialect: syn. lwsi’

[kɨɲiɁ] adj. cruel; brutal; fiendish; ruthless

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[laɁca] n. handicap of the hand; disability of the hand

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[laɁpó] n. upper arm

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[laɁpù] n. closed fisted hand

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

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Dialect: syn. icu; ice

[leɁra] n. cane havershack

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[lembjã-lerã] n. crossroad; an intersection of two or more roads

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[luɉu-lumjo] adj. manner of speaking

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[lɨgeɁ] n. popliteal space; hollow of the knee

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[lɨɨ] v. lie down

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[meɁsiɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’ me’me; tusi’

[milã] n. a variety of weed usually in the paddy fields

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[mocuɁ] v. kiss

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[mɨdó] n. rain; weather

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[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

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[nane] pron. your mother

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Dialect: syn. nama

[nar] v. borrow

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[nu] v. collect; accumulate; assemble; stockpile

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[ohó] adj. tall; high

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[paʎù] n. a variety of bird; parakeet

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[paleɁ] n. excess; extra; surplus; remainder

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[paroɁ paxɨ] n. entrails of chicken

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[paxɨɁ] v. cut to break or fracture bones in a piece of meat

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[pila xugjuɁ] n. bamboo funnel for distilling pìlaa

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[poŋe] adj. different

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[pjoɁ] v. detach (a splinter from a wood

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[pì] v. clap; pat; swat

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[pìtaɁ] v. slap; spank; hit; strike

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[ŋarnã] adj. funny; hilarious; amusing; comical

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[ŋeɁpĩ] v. close

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Dialect: ant. qe’ko

[ŋoo] v. get lost; get missing; go astray

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[raɉi] n. plastic

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[reɁke] n. ceiling

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[rì arò] n. the day after tomorrow morning

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[rúu] v. shed (as trees do of leaves)

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[suɁ] v. ladle; scoop

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[subú] n. alley; back alley

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[sɨma] n. corpse

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[sɨxaɁ] v. scratch; scrape; abrade

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[taɁmopa] adv. strongly; bravely

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tali jordu] n. a variety of chili

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[tapĩ] n. a species of bamboo

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[taxũ] n. a bamboo fish trap

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Dialect: syn. tajvr

[tãdɨɁ] v. get poisoned by drinking

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[turlaɁ] n. glass

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Dialect: var. tùla’

[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[uskul] n. school

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Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[xɨɁ] v. prod; pound

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[jaa] v. rot; decay; decompose

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[jamu muku] n. smoke

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[áɉù-amjò] n. appearance; image

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Dialect: syn. ájùu-amyò

[ǝǝŋ] letter name ñ the letter representing nasalization on the preceding vowel in the Apatani alphabet

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[úì pami] n. goose pimples

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