Apatani English

[agáa] adv. quickly; rapidly; swiftly; immediately

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aháa] n. string; cord

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. agyú

[akì kíibò] n. male dog

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mwmi’

[arkó] v. latch; fasten; bolt; lock

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arò daʎi] n. forenoon

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[asã] n. north

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[axuɁ] v. regurgitate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[batĩ] n. hedge; cattle barricade designed for humans to climb over it

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[bjaɁ] v. hesitate; waver; vacillate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjopa] n. cap; headgear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ciɁ] v. move fast (as a fish do)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuca] n. an element of a ritual altar

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daŋi] v. fall (from standing position); tumble

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲopa] adv. aimlessly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨxuɁ-tãxuɁ] n. left over eatables

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[díi] v. plant; transplant; implant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[elì] n. paddy seed; paddy preserved for next season’s sowing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[golu] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨɉu-gɨmjo] n. dress; dressing style

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. gwju

[gɨre] adj. crispy; crunchy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haapuɁ] n. diaphragm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haajã] n. pulp; core; inner position

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hamã] n. vegetable

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heme] n. oath; promise

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hibu] n. beak

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiile] v. smile smugly; simper; smile coquettishly; grin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hogja gjamu] n. clouded leopard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁbĩ] v. sweat

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hubjú] n. sheath; scabbard

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ixa] n. excreta (esp. of animals)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉihiɁ] adj. quiet; silent

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[kago-tago] adj. showy; pretentious; ostentatious

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keɁtĩ] n. thatch

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[kenda] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. keená

[kẽte puʎe] n. a variety of shawl usually made by stitching togethe discarded clothes

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kone kone] n. ? one by one

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[kõci] n. dawn

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[kumpaɁ] v. throw away (esp. from a container)

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[kóò] n. son

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[lopa] n. stick, usually used for beating

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pa’zi

[luho] v. speak offensively

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maɉi] n. Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[malo] n. roof of a house

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[miŋo] adj. rich; wealthy; affluent

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. aró

[muɁ] v. brew (beer)

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[muɁ] v. rut (animals)

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[muku kuli] n. seed of tobacco plant

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mũdo] n. girlfriend; female lover

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zimuñ ant. saado

[mɨɉaɁ] v. tear something by handing it

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxeɁ] v. make somebody cry

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxɨ] v. kill

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[neha tami] n. a variety of plant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[no] pron. you; second person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunumi] pron. you (plural); second person plural pronoun, accusative case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nuu] v. knead something (as dough) or as in washing cloth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bardè

[paceɁ] v. clasp; clutch; besiege

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paga] v. spread the legs apart

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pari] n. tree sparrow (-Passer montanus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pari pwta

[paroɁ papù] n. chicken egg

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pasù] n. needle

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[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[purtú pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. amu pèeruñ; po’tuñ pèeruñ

[pɨdǝr] v. toss; lob

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨlo aɉã] n. new moon

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[pɨlo alo] n. Monday

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[pɨtĩ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla; qwwla

[pjaɁpuɁ] v. throw water at somebody

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋaɁ] v. tie; bind

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[rica] v. throw something up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. rilo

[riibu] n. a variety of fish; eel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ruci jarú] n. left ear

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[saŋ] n. cot; bed

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xaq

[semo] n. a variety of wild cherry

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. sembo

[siɁ] v. urinate

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[simbja] n. balcony in a traditional house

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. siñbya

[subu sɨdó] n. half grown mithun

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨcã mɨdo] n. universe

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[ta] v. listen; hear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁ] v. chop (as to split something)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tadoɁ tasã] n. a variety of yellow beads

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tado’

[taʎiɁ] n. bruise; contusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamiɁ] n. fly (Diptera)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tano-gogo] n. snail

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. tano gorgo

[tapĩ] n. ice

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twpiñ

[teɁhi] v. fall down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨrɨ huuʎiɁ] n. a variety of green grasshopper

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ugja-ragja] adj. with lots of holes

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[une cẽxo] n. crust over a wound

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[xoopaɁ] v. remove something by using a stick as a lever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jamu mɨʎo] n. flame

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[joʎã] n. dead of night

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[ɲaŋa] v. put one’s head in

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[ɲuɁpaɁ] v. erase; wipe out; rub off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì bar] v. a variety of chanting during a particular ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno