Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

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[aʎã] num. ten

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[aʎí] n. air, wind

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[aleɁ] n. wing

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[amiɁ-agũ] n. design; motif; pattern (esp.in embroidery)

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[amĩ] adj. ripe; cooked

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[anɨ̀-aba] n. parent

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[asuɁ-asaɁ] n. disgrace; shame

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

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[biɉe arɨ] n. bundle of bamboo

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

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Dialect: syn. fe’be

[buŋa] v. crowd; gather; congregate; swarm

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[buuì] n. rat dropping

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[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit

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[bɨlu-bɨlaɁ] adv. hurriedly; suddenly

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[bárì] n. traditional ballad (esp. in the genre of the Nyishis)

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[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

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[daarò] adj. big step

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Dialect: ant. daazó

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

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[daɲi tatɨɁ arnɨɁ] n. solar eclipse

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[deʎã-rɨcã] n. bell used by priest during rituals

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[dibur] n. mole cricket (Gryllotalpidae)

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[didǝr] adj. fluent, as in speech; articulate

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[domĩ-doŋeɁ] n. fatigue due to change in weather

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[dompo turla] n. large bamboo glass

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[dotɨ] n. sky

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Dialect: syn. mwdóo; yapuñ

[dɨru] adj. tasteless; unpleasant to eat

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Dialect: ant. dwpyò

[eɁdaɁ] v. shoot at target

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Dialect: ant. e’xa’

[ʎanɨ] n. one who blesses; God

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[haatĩ] n. node (as of bamboo)

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[haatɨ] n. west

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Dialect: syn. dazi áago

[har] v. wash; bathe

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[iɁŋǝr] v. snore

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[ɉihiɁ rara] adj. silent; peaceful

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[ɉiimu] v. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

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Dialect: syn. sumu

[keɁtĩ] n. thatch

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[laɁbiɁ] n. dextral; right (side)

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Dialect: ant. la’ci

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

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[laɁrĩ] n. a hoop earring worn by women

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[lotɨ] adj. honest; straightforward

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[lukó-lupè] v. interrupt; create confusion

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[lɨbeɁ] v. scratch using claws or hooves

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[lɨciɁ] v. accidentally struck on something; tumble into something

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[maɁbo] n. son in law (term of reference)

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[miɁʎò] n. eyelid

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Dialect: syn. ami’ mi’fò

[mɨcĩ] v. know how to do

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[mɨdã] v. touch (esp. to cause pain)

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Dialect: syn. mwne’

[mɨgjaɁ] v. do wrongly; commit a mistake

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[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

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[mɨlã] pron. all; everybody

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Dialect: syn. jimvr

[mɨsuɁ] v. separate; disconnect; detach

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[mɨtĩ] v. obstruct

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[mjodi] n. far off place

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[nasu] n. dance

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Dialect: or. Hindi var. nasw

[nẽbu] n. a house away from the main street

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Dialect: var. niñbu ant. neñto

[paroɁ jo] n. chicken (meat)

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

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Dialect: syn. he’dú

[pilã-pisã] adj. light yellow

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[pĩcuɁ] n. bottle; elongated liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

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[pĩta ahi] n. gourd

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[poɁtũla] adv. squatting

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[pombo laso] n. a variety of insect with long limbs

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[pota] n. paper

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[puɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

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Dialect: syn. tw’jiñ

[pɨlo alo] n. Monday

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[pjàpu] v. destroy by mistake

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[roɁ] v. snatch; seize

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[saɁna] adj. out of breath; breathless; panting; gasping

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[santì] n. a variety of hardwood

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[sãtũ] n. generation

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[se] v. pull

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[suʎu] adj. empty (of feeling)

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[sɨʎĩ sɨro] n. now a days; these days

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[sɨlĩ] adj. wild (of a domestic animal esp. a mithun or a cow)

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[tagjá] n. wood wasp

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[tapǝr] adv. terrible (to hear)

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[taŋu-aláa] n. honey

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[taruɁ] n. ant

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[tasĩ pɨha] n. a variety of bamboo basket used for carrying vegetables or edible aquatic insects

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[tasĩ siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. sizi’

[telĩ] v. push something out

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Dialect: ant. telw’ etym. teñ + aliñ

[tihxo] adj. too much sweet or salty

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[tusù] v. break a relationship

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[tutu nanu] n. bumble bee

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[tɨxe] n. louse

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Dialect: var. taxe

[uuko] n. hole

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[uunɨ] n. main entrance of a hole

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Dialect: ant. uusvr

[ɨci-padɨɁ] n. doodlebug

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[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

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[jadĩ] n. storage basket of bamboo or cane

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[jalo] n. shadow; reflection; echo

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[jalu] n. dispute; conflict; controversy

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[japĩ hulo] n. nose plug

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[japĩ tɨpe] n. tattoo on the nose

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[japĩ ái] n. epistaxis; bleeding from the nose

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[jarì] n. traditional loincloth worn by males

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[ɲatu] n. resting place

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[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

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[ásù] adj. lazy; slothful; sluggish

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