Apatani English

[ abjóo ]

n.    headgear of a priest made of woven cloth

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Clothing & Ornaments

[ adã ]

n.    spear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Weapons

[ agǝr ]

n.    bundh; raised earthen boundary between paddy fields where millet is planted

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Agriculture & Forestry

[ agjã ]

n.    ritual altar of the Apatanis

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Time & Seasons
• Religion & Belief

[ aíi hiipĩ ]

n.    feline jaw used to decorate a machete sheath

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ aɉí pɨhá ]

n.    small cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Tools & Implements

[ akì talã ]

n.    dog of brownish color

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Animals & Birds

[ alo sudu ]

n.    small bamboo salt container carried for feeding mithuns

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ alóo ]

n.    bamboo flooring support

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ amu pèerũ ]

n.    a variety of bean

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. po’tuñ pèeruñ

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Agriculture
• Food & Drink

[ arpɨ ]

n.    bamboo crossbeam of a fence

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Villages & Towns

[ arɨɨ ]

n.    bundle (esp. of bamboo)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ babó ]

n.    ceremonial pole of the Apatanis erected on the eve of the Myoko festivals

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Religion & Belief
• Music & Dance

[ bacĩ ]

n.    box myrtle (Myrica esculenta/Myrica nagi)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ bade ]

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. yo bade; xaci

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ bagã riɲo ]

n.    a variety of flower; primrose flower (Primula spp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. neha appú

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ barɉuɁ ]

n.    netted cane basket for everyday use

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ basɨɁ ]

n.    bank (of a river); riverbank; shore

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Natural World

[ batĩ ]

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Agriculture & Forestry

[ behe ]

n.    bamboo shoot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. byapu’, wtw rwbw, wtw bwrw

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees
• Food & Drink

[ biɉe arɨ ]

n.    bundle of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ biɉe biirã ]

n.    bamboo stump

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Natural World

[ biɉe biiɲiɁ ]

n.    small sized bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ biɉe sudu ]

n.    bamboo container; bamboo smoking pipe

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ birã patuɁ ]

n.    bamboo stump (esp. with sharp edge)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Natural World

[ boha ]

n.    cane rope tied to a babó for acrobatic game; acrobatic game played on the rope

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ bjaago ]

n.    front verandah of an Apatani house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ bjapuɁ ]

n.    bamboo shoot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. behé, wtw rwbw, wtw bwrw

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Food & Drink
• Plants & Trees

[ bjoopǝr ]

n.    a variety of headgear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Clothing & Ornaments

[ bjuxɨ̃ ]

n.    cemetery; burial ground; graveyard

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ caãcú ]

n.    cooking tripod

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ cãta ]

n.    rice flake (esp. of newly harvested paddy)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Food & Drink

[ ciɁpi ]

n.    wooden door frame

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ ciɁri ]

n.    ceremonial antique sword

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Weapons

[ ciba ]

n.    small cane bag usually used for carrying tiffin

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ cicĩ ]

n.    loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ cuuxa ]

n.    small bamboo container over the fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ daareɁ reɁke ]

n.    lower rack over the fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. da’re’ke

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ damĩda ]

n.    a variety of Apatani traditional dance, accompanied by bwsí

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Music & Dance

[ damu ]

n.    wooden digging stick used as an agricultural implement

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Tools & Implements
• Agriculture

[ dekĩ pɨcã ]

n.    clay pot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ didu ]

n.    liquid container of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. dije’

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ diiʎã pákù ]

n.    Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Animals & Birds

[ diɉeɁ ]

n.    portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. didu

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ dĩgjã ]

n.    fencepost

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Agriculture & Forestry

[ dompo turla ]

n.    large bamboo glass

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ empjã sudu ]

n.    bamboo container to store grains for poultry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ endi ]

n.    rice plant; rice seedling

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ ẽtɨ tari ]

n.    kiwi (Actinidia sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ ẽtɨ jagɨ ]

n.    medium sized cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ ẽxo ]

n.    rice stalk; portion of a stalk

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ gijã hamã ]

n.    cabbage leaf mustard (Brassica juncea var. rugosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. giyañ

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees
• Food & Drink

[ gɨda-pata ]

n.    large cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[ haasǝr ]

n.    the internodal part of a bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Natural World

[ haʎã hamã ]

n.    Redflower Ragleaf; Fireweed (Crassocephalum crepidioides)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. genda hamañ

Speaker: Nani Anga

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees
• Food & Drink

[ heɁteɁ ]

n.    narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

Semantic domains:

• Hunting & Fishing

[ henci ]

n.    a variety of edible berry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ hurtaɁ ]

n.    wooden board used for filtering rice water from the cooking pot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ huɲi ]

n.    pestle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ hɨbjɨ ]

n.    bamboo branch

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Natural World

[ hɨgũ hamã ]

n.    a variety of vegetable; Japanese parsley (Oenanthe javanica)

Example: Photo by Kanno Tage

Speaker: Nani Anga

Semantic domains:

• Food & Drink
• Plants & Trees

[ hɨɉã lɨhaɁ ]

n.    small cane basket used as the container of food contributed during birth of a newborn by the mother’s mother

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ imiɁ ]

n.    sitting space around the traditional fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ ĩgja ]

n.    space between the fireplace and the side wall of a traditional house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ iŋĩ ]

n.    purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Food & Drink
• Plants & Trees

[ itú pumĩ ]

n.    a variety of small dragonfly

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ ɉixe tarɨ ]

n.    a kind of shirt (esp. for males)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Clothing & Ornaments

[ ɉoɉuru ]

n.    a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ ɉoɉuru ]

n.    a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Food & Drink

[ ɉoɉǝr ]

n.    green june beetle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Insects & Flies

[ keená ]

n.    black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Dialect: var. kenda

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Animals & Birds

[ kekuru ]

n.    bulbul; nightingale

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Animals & Birds

[ kenda ]

n.    black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Dialect: var. keená

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Animals & Birds

[ kikuɁ ]

n.    outer covering of bamboo shoot that falls off when it grows into young bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Natural World

[ kortú ]

n.    metal capping at the end of the handle of a ceremonial sword (ci’rì)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Clothing & Ornaments

[ kukuʎu hamã ]

n.    a variety of wild vegetable (Artemisia indica)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees
• Food & Drink

[ kɨdi paju ]

n.    glue obtained from a variety of tuber

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ kɨle pẽbu ]

n.    a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. kwle pemu

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ kɨle toʎoɁ ]

n.    sweet flag; a variety of flowering plants that grow along river banks and marshy places (Acorus calamus)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ kɨra ]

n.    a variety of tree; oak tree (Lithocarpus dealbata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ laɁpã ]

n.    wooden community platform usually belonging to a clan

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ laɁpã tuli ]

n.    post of là’pañ

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ laɁrĩ ]

n.    a hoop earring worn by women

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Clothing & Ornaments

[ leɁca ]

n.    cane havershack covered with fibres from the bark of a particular tree worn during jungle expeditions or during war-related rituals

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ leɁra ]

n.    cane havershack

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ lebu ]

n.    agate bead

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Clothing & Ornaments

[ leju ]

n.    a small path leading to a village

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ li lilã ]

n.    cicada (Cicadidae)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Insects & Flies

[ lobú ]

n.    a part of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ lobjoɁ tare ]

n.    a variety of thorny plant

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: var. lobyo’ twre

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ lobjoɁ tɨre ]

n.    a variety of thorny plant

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. lobyo’ tare

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ lomè ]

n.    an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Tools & Implements

[ loxoɁ ]

n.    a part of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Tools & Implements

[ lɨhaɁ ]

n.    small cane basket

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Household Items

[ lɨri pɨsa ]

n.    a variety of pine tree; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: var. nwri pwsa

Speaker: Tage Kanno

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ maɉi ]

n.    Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ mepi ]

n.    a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. mepi hamañ

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ mepi hamã ]

n.    a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Dialect: syn. mepi

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees

[ midĩ ]

n.    nursery for paddy; seed bed

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Material Culture

[ 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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

Semantic domains:

• Plants & Trees