Apatani English

[aa] letter name a the letter representing a in the Apatani alphabet

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[aarí] n. saw

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

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[aʎí] n. air, wind

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[ahi] n. tooth

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[akì tapúu] n. dog of white color

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[akó] num. one; single

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[alǝr] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

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Dialect: syn. arlv

[amaɁ] v. feed (esp. the hired laborers)

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[apiɁ] v. break (by dropping)

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[apǝr] n. gallbladder

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[aŋɨ] int. interjection to express indifference; let it be

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Dialect: syn. aqw swco; aga swco

[arí] v. string together (beads)

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[axóo] n. head; leader; principal

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[ajóo] n. up; upper

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[baɁ] v. carry; transport

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[baro-maɲã] n. traditional friends (esp. of other community or of far away places)

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[beɁ] v. spring, something under tension; leap (as frogs do)

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[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

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[bjaako] n. kind of edible berry

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[bíiɁ] v. compensate; make reparation; make amends

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[cicĩ] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to ward off malevolent spirit)

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Dialect: ant. twgò

[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim

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Dialect: syn. lwwrw

[daci mida] n. mida of lesser variety

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Dialect: ant. datw mida

[danɨ] n. heavy wooden hammer

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[elù] n. reed flute

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[ereɁ] n. belly; stomach

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Dialect: xañcu.wav

[goiɁdado] adv. wholely, entirely

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[goo] v. demarcate a boundary (esp. with fencing)

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[gjoɁ] v. call; hail

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[haadɨ] n. anger

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[haʎã bjajũ] n. tomato

Speaker: Nani Anga

[henɨ-mjanɨ] n. relatives; kindred; kith and kin

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[hiicí] v. grimace; make face (usually in pain)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. hiizi’

[hixuɁ] n. wet fermented bamboo shoot

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[hõkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. huñki’

[hɨri-hɨxo] n. dirt particles

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[híhɁ] n. dried fermented bamboo shoot

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[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave

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[ice] adj. few; some; scant; meagre

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Dialect: syn. icu

[iŋĩ] n. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ĩbò] v. follow; go along with somebody

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[ɉarkĩ] n. jerakin; a container

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉiimu] v. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

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Dialect: syn. sumu

[ɉilã] n. a kind of traditional shawl (esp.used by the priests)

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[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

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[ɉoca] v. lift or carry up ant. jolo

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[kako jalo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako talo; kvlo talo, kwrv talo

[karda-bjaɲi alo] n. Friday

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[karɨɁ] v. meet; greet

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[koɁbɨ] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

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Dialect: syn. ko’bu

[kuɁbã] v. keep something, esp. a container, upside down

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[kǝ] int. interjection to draw attention

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[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

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[kɨlĩ] pron. whatever

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[kɨri harnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

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Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw

[kóò bo] n. nephew

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[laɁdɨ goɁhe] n. one unit of la’dw, equivalent to the distance between outstretched thumb and forefinger

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[laɁpù] n. closed fisted hand

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[lãpaɁ] v. ostracize; vanish; drive out

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[lopo] n. half day

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Dialect: ant. lobyañ

[lupaɁ] v. criticize; denounce; condemn; speak ill of someone

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[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

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[mɨɉaɁ] v. tear something by handing it

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[mɨpjaɁ] v. undo something; untie

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[mɨjã] n. a variety of plant used as tinder

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[mja] v. collect contributions; collect

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Dialect: syn. xa

[nã] v. push; press

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[nelo] n. household; independent house

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[niti] adj. new

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[o xuiɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata)

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[oho gɨ] v. be pregnant

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[padɨɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

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Dialect: syn. padw’

[papù] n. egg

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[pooɲó] adj. small (of cylinderical objects)

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Dialect: ant. pooro

[puhaɁ tarpĩ] n. rice root weevil

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[pɨʎiɁ] n. hut in the paddy fields or jungle

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[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

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[pɨɲe] n. chisel

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[raɲiɁ] n. chain

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[ribo] v. throw something across

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[rutĩ] n. earring

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[seja hamã] n. Chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)

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[sor] v. stretch; sprawl; lounge

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[subu arɨɨ] n. mithun horn

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[subu ipaɁ] n. mithun dung

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[supũ pĩta] n. beer container used during rituals

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[supjuɁ] n. drain water

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[taɁce] n. crack; rupture; split

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[tahɨɁ] adj. hard of hearing

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[tako-laro] n. variety of a hard stone

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[tamì] n. weed

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[tasã] n. ornament

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[ubúu] n. hole

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[xɨɉã-xɨro] n. bowels

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[xè] v. suffice; be enough

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[jaɉuɁ pɨxo] n. a variety of dragonfly

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[japĩ hulo] n. nose plug

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[jasi paɉeɁ] n. water birds

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[ɲuɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe out; rub off

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