Apatani English

[abã] v. bury (esp. in ash)

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[abíi-tarɨ] n. dress; clothes; garments; attire

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[aci-aʎá] adj. precarious; critical

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[agũ] n. mouth; language

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[akì ipaɁ] n. faeces of dogs

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[amĩ-ahĩ] n. gift; present

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[baɁso] adj. long

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Dialect: syn. wbyo’ ant. twdw

[bade] n. ceiling rack for storing meat syn. yo bade; xaci

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. yo bade; xaci

[beɁtũ] v. shrink; contract; become smaller

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[beʎe] v. chatter; babble

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[buudu-buugjá] n. household articles

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[bjuhu] n. grave; tomb

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[bjáa] v. roast; grill

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[dalĩ] n. path made by a hunter; hunting track

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Dialect: var. dwliñ

[dɨnɨ paʎo] n. an element of a ritual altar

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[dɨpjo aíi] n. canine tooth

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[dɨxuɁ] n. left over food

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[ẽtɨ jagɨ] n. medium sized cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ẽxo] n. rice stalk; portion of a stalk

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[guɁ] v. turn or turn oneself over (esp. in lying position)

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[gjuu] v. yell; howl; scream; shout

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[haɁ] v. bite off

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[haɁ] v. collect or catch (for example, fish from water)

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[helo] v. pardon; forgive

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[ho] n. and

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[iɉuɁ] n. weak; coward

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[ĩgo-mɨgo] n. task; job; chore; assignment

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[ĩrɨɁ] v. meet; meet up with; run into

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[ɉola] n. bag

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[kaɁ] v. solidify; freeze; coagulate

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[kami-kami] adv. in front of one’s eye

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[kamo] adj. dark

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[kekuru] n. bulbul; nightingale

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[kobĩ] n. a variety of oak tree

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Dialect: var. korbiñ

[komla tɨŋá] n. orange

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kootú] v. stand in a stooping posture

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[kɨra raadu] n. chestnut

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[laɁpó] n. upper arm

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[laɁso] n. middle finger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and middle finger

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Dialect: syn. la’ci’ lwpá

[laakoɁ] v. open

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Dialect: ant. laapiñ

[laalĩ] v. take out

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[leju] n. a small path leading to a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lĩgja] n. exit; doorway; gateway

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[loʎã] n. ten days

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[magù] v. bellow as an expression of distress

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[meɁsiɁ] v. join; link; couple

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Dialect: syn. me’si’ me’me; tusi’

[miimaɁ] n. a variety of hebaceous plant whose slender leaves are used to tie bundles of paddy or millet plant (Miscanthus sinensis)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[milĩ] adj. serious (of health status) adv. with great difficulty; by hook or by crook

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[mɨpjã] v. close

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Dialect: syn. mwpiñ

[mɨsiɁ] v. take one’s turn in doing something

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[mɨjã] n. crest on the head of cock

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[mjamja] n. ringworm

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[nasu] n. dance

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Dialect: or. Hindi var. nasw

[nõ] v. call (esp. an animal)

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[nɨji] n. an element of loin loom

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[oho milobo] n. son

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[papuu] n. white (esp. hen)

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[patɨ ahi] n. tiger tooth

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[paì tapi pɨta] n. Scarlet Finch

Example: Photo by Nomo Hibu Layang

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[pesuɁ] n. hornbill

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[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

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[pipaɁ] v. swat something away

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[puʎã] n. peak; summit

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[pɨɁ] v. sweep; clean

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[pɨlo] n. moon; month

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[pɨɲu] n. spoon

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[ŋoja] pron. something else

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[ŋɨ] v. move to and fro

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[ríipĩ] v. close something by stitching or sewing

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

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Dialect: var. sa’pu

[siɲiɁ tasĩ] n. a variety of small sized larvae

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[subu sɨdó] n. half grown mithun

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[sɨbi bisǝr] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨdĩ] n. barking deer; muntjac

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[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

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[sɨtɨ] n. elephant

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[tace] v. divide; distribute

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[takĩ] n. cowrie shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. takiñ za’co

[tamiɁ] n. fly (Diptera)

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[tano pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

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[tariɁ burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake

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[tasǝr] n. variety of cane

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[taxó] adj. bald

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[tajã] n. bee (single)

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[tɨɁ] v. jerk; pull suddenly

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[tɨdɨ] adj. short

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Dialect: ant. wbyo’

[tɨŋá] n. fruit

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[tɨrɨ] n. forehead

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[ubúu] n. hole

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[ura imiɁ] n. second hearth towards the back of the house

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[utũ bulũ] adj. chubby; healthy

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Dialect: var. tatuñ buluñ

[xaŋ] n. bed; cot

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Dialect: syn. saq

[xe] v. read; count

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[xeɁlĩ] v. take off; uncover

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Dialect: ant. xe’lw’

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

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[jamu mɨri] n. charcoal; embers

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[ɲaŋe] n. one year

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[ɲatã] n. snout or muzzle (of animal); edge or tip

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[ɲor] v. step on something

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Dialect: syn. zar

[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)

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