Apatani English

[aɉã] adj. young; immature

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉo] adj. gentle; tender

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì ipaɁ] n. faeces of dogs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. opa’

[apáa] adj. young; immature

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arlǝ] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. alvr

[artaɁ] n. portion; segment; section

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asã] v. laud; praise; extol

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bilã abíi] n. Red and white Apatani traditional skirt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[biti] n. craft; activity involving skills in cane and bamboo craft

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bijã] n. girdle (esp. of female used to hold the skirt)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[boʎo] adj. thin (of a flat object) ant. byañkvr

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. byañkvr

[buʎã] n. traditional village council of the Apatanis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bukoʎeɁbe] n. larva of water beetle syn. fe’be

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. fe’be

[bjurɨ-bjarɨ] adj. dirty; unappetizing; messy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ulu-byalu

[cãciɁ-doci] adj. nagging; vexatiuos; troublesome (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cee] adj. small amount; few; scarce; scant; meagre

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciɁ] v. hold (with both arms)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨlo] n. paddy for husking

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. duu

[dɨsɨ] n. edible; food

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎe] v. wade through

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hadɨ] n. anger

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hadɨ] v. be angry

Speaker: Nani Anga

[harɉeɁ] v. run over (esp. by a vehicle)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heɁdú] n. pork intestine along with attached fat; such meat of sacrificed animals traditionally offered to the eldest living sister by the younger ones.

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pidú

[heʎa] v. have patience; have endurance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hoã] n. back (anatomy)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. huañ

[hoã alló] n. backbone

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hukɨ-makɨ] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ii] letter name I the letter representing i in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ipaɁ] n. excreta

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ixò hóonɨ] n. the person who sponsors the dry meat distributed to the participants of penw procession, usually a close relative of the main sponsor of Muruñ

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉã] v. be trustworthy, as the omen of chickeen liver or egg might be

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiɉi ɉixo] adj. dark blue

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaʎu-kaca] v. fail to recognize

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kagɨ] v. learn (by seeing)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaxɨ̃-kamɨ̃] adv. look with confusion; unsatisfactory; disagreeable

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keele] n. an agricultural implement of short pointed bamboo chisel used for weeding

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kokã] adj. late; lower

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kami

[kooló] n. iliac crest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koŋ] num. one

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

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

[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lake] v. to cross legs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laŋu] n. neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mǝǝ] letter name m the letter representing m in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɁti] v. close (the eyes)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɉí] n. orphan

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[mɨduɁ] v. destroy; damage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjò] adj. easy (to do); good to do

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxɨɁ] v. sprain

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nakó] n. portion of village (esp. the lower one)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nami

[nẽ] v. sniff; smell

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɁjuɁ] v. prick; pierce

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmpa] pron. why

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nwmopa syn. nwtepa

[pagi jaru] n. Common hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pai-paca] n. a large cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pamã] n. bamboo rack in front wall of the house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pamí] n. chicken louse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁhe] n. measure worth of a hen or paddy in a paro’ yagw; three persons which was the number of laborers hired with a hen or paro’ yagw full of paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paju lopa] n. long stick the end of which is covered with glue (payu)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pepó-pelò] adj. extravagant; lavish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[petú] v. break something into two or more pieces

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pece

[pilã rãbã] adj. yellowish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poorò] adj. big, of cylinderical objects

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. poozó

[párxɨ] v. twist; spin; twirl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pìtaɁ] v. slap; spank; hit; strike

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pí] v. bark

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋarka] v. smile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reɁbja] n. ladder

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. abya

[rui] n. ear wax

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yarú rui

[rɨbó alo] n. three days hence

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rwbóda

[rɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãsũ] adj. weedy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãtaɁ ude] n. wooden house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨcã mɨdo] n. universe

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨdó] n. heifer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtɨ ahi] n. elephant tusk

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tadǝr] n. parasitic worm

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[talɨ́] n. unnatural death

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tanoɁ] n. snot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tare] n. thorn

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twre

[tartu] v. break

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tisǝr] adj. sweet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[toɁpjo] v. descend first

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tusù] v. break a relationship

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. tale’

[jaɁlã] n. boneless portion of red meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yo aya’

[jaɁpu-jaɁlã] n. a variety of Muruñ festival considered to be of higher status

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamuɁ] adj. ashy (color)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamjó] n. floor of split bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jasi] n. water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaɁco] n. tiny metal bell

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. fa’co