Apatani English

[abã] n. burning pain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abjo] adv. endearingly; fondly; affectionately

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎiɁ] n. pig

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akã] prep. bottom; beneath

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[alì arã] n. bottom; base; lower part

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[ama] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ane

[arɉĩ] v. stretch (esp. one’s body)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[artĩ ku] v. castrate

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[axɨ ácì] n. stomach pain

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[bi] v. give; offer

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[buupĩ ] v. follow in birth order

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[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

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[bjaací] n. space between the front verandah and the main space in an Apatani house

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byaarañ

[bjopa] n. cap; headgear

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[cãta] n. rice flake (esp. of newly harvested paddy)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ceɁga] adj. argumentative; quarrelsome; belligerant; captious

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuuki] v. stoop

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cuukw

[cí] v. claim (ownership)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[dǝǝ] letter name d the letter representing d in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dar] v. move or lift with a stick used as a lever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲi riilaɁ] n. sunray

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dopaa] n. a children’s game played with pebbles

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎeɁ] v. roll something (esp. thread between the palms)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎiɁdo] n. food for pigs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[goobɨ-cibɨ] v. preserve; protect; safeguard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõcì] n. dragonfly

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. koñcì

[haalo] n. August-September; ninth month of lunar year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haame] adj. coward; timid

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. haaro

[haapĩ tagjã] n. fog; mist

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haapiñ

[heɁtaɁ] n. wooden agricultural implement (esp. used during construction of bundhs)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[huɁpaɁ-huɁja] adj. lavish; extravagant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨʎã] prep. like; similar; alike

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨsã] n. grass; fodder

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hú] v. pound; pummel

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipoɁ] n. yeast; yeast cake used to ferment grains while preparing beer

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉãda] n. flag

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[ɉihɨ-ɉixe] v. roll to and fro

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[ɉoɁ] v. cut, lengthwise with a blade

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[ɉu] v. winnow

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[kapaɁ] v. ignore; disregard; pay no heed to

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[karpaɁ pɨlò] n. second lunar month of the year; February

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Dialect: syn. pagvr pwlò

[keɁ] v. put on cloth (esp. blankets, quilts or shawls); cover; overspread; overlay

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨteɁ] v. knock down by punching

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁdu midĩ] n. elbow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. la’du mwriñ

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. la’ci’ lwpá

[laa] v. take; grasp; clutch

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[laŋu] n. neck

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[lãxa] n. coop, as for poultry; shelter, as of a hunter in the tree

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[lobjoɁ tare] n. a variety of thorny plant

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. lobyo’ twre

[luhu-luha] v. provoke; tease

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lulù-lugo] v. disturb by speaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lulù

[luxɨ̃-lumɨ̃] v. speak in a confused way; speak nervously

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[lɨxɨ̃] n. dirt on the feet

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[marpu] n. corn silk

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[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

[milo rɨɲe] n. a variety of fern used in the construction of altars (Diplazium esculentum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨmeɁ] v. initiate

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[mɨtĩ] v. obstruct

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨtú] n. half burned firewood

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[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨka] pron. your; second person singular genitive pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pǝǝ] letter name p the letter representing p in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɁga] n. long supporting post on both sides of a traditional Apatani house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[padɨɁ hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

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Dialect: syn. padw’

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

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Dialect: syn. pari pwta

[patɨ rĩbi] n. a variety of spider

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[pató hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Clerodendrum colebrookianum)

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[peca] n. a variety of wild apple

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pobaɁ] v. hug; embrace

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pòoba’-pòola

[pɨdi] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨgja gjapúu] n. wreathed hornbill (Aceros undulatus)

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[ŋarsi] v. chuckle; laugh quietly or inwardly

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[ŋo] pron. I; first person singular pronoun

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[rɨxɨda] n. four days hence

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. rwxw alo

[sorɉoɁ] adj. elongated; straighten out

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[sõ] v. move sideways

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[suʎu] adj. empty (of feeling)

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[sɨrĩ] n. otter

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[taɁmò] n. a variety of tree; Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis/Rhus semialata)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tabe] n. sugarcane plant

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twbe

[tahɨɁ] adj. hard of hearing

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapi] n. a variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tarú] n. mosquito

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãxuɁ] n. leftover drinks

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[teɁ] v. cut (esp. bushes)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tero jorsĩ] n. dry chili

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[tiɁho] v. make a mark

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[tii] v. pour

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Dialect: syn. to

[tuu] v. pick up

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[tɨdɨ] adj. short

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Dialect: ant. wbyo’

[tɨpjaɁ tarɨ] n. a variety of cotton top

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[uu] letter name u the letter representing u in the Apatani alphabet

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[une pagɨ] v. get wounded

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[uuɲó] adj. small (of hole)

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Dialect: ant. uurò

[jaa] v. rot; decay; decompose

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[jahĩ] adj. rotten (esp. of wood)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibjoɁ] v. get free (as from a taboo period)

Speaker: Tage Kanno