Apatani English

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

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[aʎã pɨʎi] num. forty

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[agǝr] n. bundh; raised earthen boundary between paddy fields where millet is planted

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[akì tɨxè] n. flea

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Dialect: var. akì taxw

[alo] n. salt

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[alì lɨpjo] n. sole

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[asɨɁ] v. bite

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

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[atúu] adj. small; tiny; little; miniature ant. káhè

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[baɁ] v. carry; transport

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[buɁli uune] n. a variety of ulcerative infective wound of the skin; ecthyma

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[bjodĩ] n. an element of ritual altar

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[cẽxo] n. scab (of a wound); crust

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[duɁ] v. throb; beat (as of heart)

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[dɨraa-loɲã] n. in the coming years

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[dɨxuɁ] n. left over food

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[eɁ] v. shoot

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[ẽtɨ pataɁ] n. wooden try on which to beat while harvesting paddy

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[ʎiro toko] n. uvula

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[goŋe] n. one mouthful; one word

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨre] adj. crispy; crunchy

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[gɨɨ] v. move by manouvering

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[haʎã bjajũ] n. tomato

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽki] adj. sincere; honest; unfeigned

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hirũ] n. tusk (of full grown wild pig)

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[háatɨ mɨlɨ] adv. hopefully; confidently; optimistically

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩdĩ-ĩkó] n. direction; way forward; way ahead

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[ɉirɨ-ɉixe] v. rotate to and fro

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

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[ɉokoɁ] v. opening something by lifting up the lid jopyañ

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[kaʎã kada] v. look after; help

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Dialect: syn. kafañ

[kakĩ-tajĩ] v. show off; put on airs

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[kaŋu] v. differentiate; distinguish; tell apart

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[katu] v. kick (as a cow does)

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[kebaɁ-kela] v. hug or embrace in an intimate way; hug in a playful way

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[kooʎa] v. limp

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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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[laɁŋǝr] n. wrist

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[laɁxɨ̃] n. dirt on the hands

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[laako] n. a crossed stick in front of the entrance to signify the performance of a ritual in the household

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[lar] v. challenge; bet

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[lukuɁ] n. shoe

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[luuli hamã] n. Nepalese smartweed (Persicaria nepalensis); a variety of vegetable

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[lɨkè-lɨbè] v. twist one’s feet around

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[mataɁ] adj. flat

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Dialect: syn. me’ta’

[mihĩ] n. contribution (esp. in kind)

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[miŋo] adj. rich; wealthy; affluent

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Dialect: ant. aró

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

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[mɨko-mɨpe] v. disrupt; distract; disturb

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[mɨŋo] v. stop doing something

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[mɨtù] v. do something for the first time

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[nẽbu] n. home

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[nẽru] adj. foul smelling

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Dialect: ant. neñpyo

[nɨmĩ] n. placenta

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[nɨpa] pron. for you; second person singular dative pronoun

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[nɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

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Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[paakuɁ] n. plate

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Dialect: syn. paaka’

[pasu] v. fight; quarrel

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[paxɨ̃] v. blunt a sharp weapon by cutting on a hard material

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[pike] n. a spicy traditional dish

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[pilã-pisã] adj. light yellow

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[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[poo] v. chop a tree trunk with horizontal blows

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[pudu appú] n. a variety of flowering plant; Indian oleander (Nerium indicum)

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

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[pɨlo harbjã] n. full moon

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[ŋɨʎã] n. variety of a fish considered sacred by the Apatanis

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[raɉi] n. plastic

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[rohĩhe] adv. thrice; three times

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[saɁlĩ] v. breathe out; exhale

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Dialect: ant. sa’lw’

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

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Dialect: var. sa’pu

[saha] n. cane rope

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Dialect: var. swha

[salɨɁ] v. push something in

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[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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[sãtaɁ ude] n. wooden house

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[siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siñbo

[sor] v. slip; skid

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[sorò] adj. thick (of objects like a thread)

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Dialect: ant. sozó

[sosma] n. goggle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[subu ipaɁ] n. mithun dung

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[sɨki] n. a variety of wild cat

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[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

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[taʎiɁ] n. bruise; contusion

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[taku-tamu] n. a decorated bamboo stick used during penw procession of Muruñ festival

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talɨɁ] v. agree

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[taŋu-aruɁ] n. honeycomb

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

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[teli] n. oil

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tooko] n. prop; support; post

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[tɨɁ] v. jerk; pull suddenly

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[tɨrɨ tatɨɁ] n. toad

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[táa] v. paw; move the hands in a rapid pawing motion, as when digging away soil

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[xeɁ] v. put on dress; cover

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[xeda harnɨ] n. special messenger, usually female, who informs about a ritual like Subu or Muruñ to the traditional friends in other villages

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[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

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

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[jopo] n. cane basket

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[jordĩ] n. upper portion of a hill

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Dialect: ant. yorko

[áɉù] n. appearance; image

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Dialect: syn. kájù