Apatani English

[abba-apá] n. ancestor; forefather; progenitor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abúu] n. a cylinderical structure

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. aro’

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[ahi ácì] n. toothache

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉǝr] v. to be playful as a dog waging its tail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alíi] n. descendant; progeny; successor

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ama] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ane

[amiɁ] n. eye

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apɨ] n. breadth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apjũ] n. bunch; cluster

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[artĩ bɨlĩ] n. testicle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[artù] n. gizzard (of a bird)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arò-apĩ] n. meal in the morning; breakfast

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asiɁ] n. nest; lair; den

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[auɁ gɨgjá] n. waist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baɉiɁ] v. cook in oil

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bjako] n. common term for berries

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cee] adj. small amount; few; scarce; scant; meagre

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cuɁ] v. spit; expectorate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiʎã] n. areas of human activity between the forests and the villages

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dimu] n. hair (of head)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[duɁ] v. throb; beat (as of heart)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùukũ] n. meeting; gathering; assembly; congregation

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁpe] n. pumpkin

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tápè; ayó twpè

[ʎẽ] v. measure with outstretched hands

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[goiɁ] adj. whole; entire

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gomu] n. facial hair; beard; moustache

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gjoɁ] v. call; hail

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjooɁ] n. noose trap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjuɲã] n. ritual performed to appease a malevolent spirit

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. twgò

[heŋu-hẽre] v. treat differently; discriminate; be biased against

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽbjã] adv. ample; sufficient; adequate

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽɉǝr] v. save up; save for the future

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hibu] n. beak

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɉeɁ] n. portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. dije’

[hoi] v. be; happen

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[huɁpaɁ-huɁja] adj. lavish; extravagant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã alló] n. backbone

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ alló

[hɨmi] pron. that; third person accusative pronoun

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iŋɨ-ĩxeɁ] v. move around

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩdũ] v. go around; wander; roam

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉeɁɉeɁ] adj. soft due to cooking too much

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kukuʎu hamã] n. a variety of wild vegetable (Artemisia indica)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lɨxɨ̃] n. dirt on the feet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[medǝr agjã] n. altar for purification ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[miɁɉu] n. eye discharge

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miikɨ] adj. belonging to others; not own

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mirɨɁ] n. powdered millet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mohol] n. big house; bungalow

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[murũ] n. first month of the lunar year; January; name of the festival celebrated in January

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨko-mɨpe] v. disrupt; distract; disturb

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mò] pron. he; she; third person singular pronoun

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[naa] v. collect; gather; muster

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nãkoɁ] v. push open

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[niti] adj. new

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨji] n. an element of loin loom

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[orbjoɁ] adj. long

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. obyo’ syn. ba’so, wbyo’

[paʎù] n. a variety of bird; parakeet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paiɁ] v. get

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[papo] adj. incomplete; not full

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ jagɨ] n. medium sized basket for measuring quantity of paddy, roughly equivalent to five kilograms

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patuɁ alɨɁ] v. put in the jail; imprison

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paju sudu] n. bamboo container for glue (payu)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[perũ] n. bean

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[perũ jaanɨ] n. fermented soybean

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pĩta] n. rounded liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[por] v. cut as in longitudinally dividing a bamboo into two

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[posa] n. money (esp. coins); paisa

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese (Paisa)

[puca] v. float (on water)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. puha

[pɨdĩ] n. male hair knot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨdĩ xotu] n. metal skewer for hair knot

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rahɨ] v. rotate something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ridaɁ] v. throw at the target

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. rixa’

[rĩbi tasũ] n. spider web

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãɉe] n. timber; wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sijo] n. this night; tonight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[soɉã] n. lizard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[some] n. palm civet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[suɁ] v. ladle; scoop

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu ipaɁ] n. mithun dung

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨlo bɨʎo] n. recently; lately; now a days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨɨ] n. cow; ox

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sárce] v. tear something into two parts

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taaró] n. variety of a fig

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamì] n. weed

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[Tanɨ agũ] n. Apatani language

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tariɁ] n. fern

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tã] v. drink; smoke

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãkã] adv. drink or smoke for a long time

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tolɨɁ] v. pour something in

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. toliñ

[ɨbjoɁ] adj. long

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. obyo’

[ɨdã] n. spear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. adañ

[ɨɉã] n. sun

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dazí

[jaɉi-jalo] n. soul

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jalo] n. shadow; reflection; echo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲatu] n. resting place

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áagjá] n. entrance; door

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. háagyá