Apatani English

[abrǝ] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abvr

[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎaɁ] v. lick; lap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎĩ] adj. smart; bright; savvy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahi daktor] n. dentist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ano] v. to smear; to put on; to rub in; to apply (ointment)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apa-ama] adj. simple; artless; guileless; innocent

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aŋɨ sɨco] int. interjection to express indifference; let it be

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aqw; aga swco

[areɁ] adj. sharp; honed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arlǝ] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. alvr

[ajobo] n. mother-in-law (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajú] n. traditional ballad usually sang by the males as competition or simple narration

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[barɲo] adj. small flat object

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. baarò var. bazo

[belũ] n. friend; audience (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[biɉe arɨ] n. bundle of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨsã tabú] n. a variety of snake; Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. busañ tabú

[bíiɁ] v. compensate; make reparation; make amends

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɁ] v. stand; be there

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daapo] n. a gift item on the occasion of Mida, a part of Apatani marriage ceremony

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãlò] v. beat something down; cause to fall by beating

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dañte’

[ditũ-potũ] n. ceremony; social event; occasion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dituñ

[duu] n. paddy for husking

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dwlo

[dɨdɨɁ] adj. poisonous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[enda] n. fifth lunar moon; May

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ẽtɨ tari] n. kiwi (Actinidia sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[goŋe] n. one mouthful; one word

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨɨrò] adj. big (of a basket)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gwwzó

[gjambo] n. war; battle; dispute

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. caambyó

[haadɨ] n. anger

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaso haaso] adv. slowly; sluggishly

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haasopa

[harú] adj. popular (as of one’s personality)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haágjá] n. entrance, door

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[háakò] n. entrance, entry, door

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[háatɨ mɨlɨ] adv. hopefully; confidently; optimistically

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hú] v. wake up; rouse; awaken

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉar] num. thousand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉeɁta] adj. flattened

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉĩ] v. tie

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉompu] n. bamboo shaving used as a ritual element or a decorative item syn. some

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaʎu-kaca] v. fail to recognize

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[kakĩ-tajĩ] v. show off; put on airs

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kami-kami] adv. in front of one’s eye

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keembeɁ] adj. taste, as of spoilt fat; rancid

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. keeme’

[kẽte] n. quilt (traditionally made of several pieces of sewn-together fabric)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɁbu] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ko’bw

[kone kone] n. ? one by one

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koogaɁ] n. occiput; back of the head

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kubu] n. rat; mouse

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laakoɁ] v. open

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. laapiñ

[lẽ] v. perish en masse, as do the wild bamboo after flowering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lohɁ] n. rope tied to the leg of a poultry as a mark of identification

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mirɨɁ jalã] n. grinding stone for millet

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mukú-mɨi] n. deposits of carbon particle from smoke

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[murpa sai] n. fog in the horizons that is usually associated with the advent of Myoko festival in March

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨme-mɨɉa] v. complete; finish

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nakú] n. uncle, esp. maternal (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aku

[oha] int. interjection to express surprise

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[oɲiɁ-rɨɲiɁ] adj. cute; small and beautiful

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paakaɁ] n. plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paaku’

[paduɁ] v. damage by cutting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[petiɁ] n. belt

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[piɁɲi] num. eight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pohaɁ] n. crow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. puha’

[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. purò

[pũko] n. intermediate position; middle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. peñko

[pɨtaɁ] n. a variety of tree; wild pear (Pyrus pashia)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋurlo] v. move down something heavy using lever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨkɨ] pron. mine; first person singular genitive pronoun incorporating a copula function

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reŋe] adj. tired

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. reqw

[riɲo gjadu] n. rings of bamboo splits that are hoisted with poles in the tombs of priests

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ru] v. sneak; plot; machinate; conspire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ru-xa] n. noise; tumult; commotion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rubi] n. deaf

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨxɨ aʎĩ] n. the evening after four days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁca] v. get excited; be motivated

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. du’ca

[sabeɁ] n. key

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sarma puɉũ] n. a mound of refuse mainly comprising of millet stalk and other weeds in a millet garden

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãbjũ] v. immerse; submerge; soak in water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sor] v. slip; skid

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamjó] adj. a color pattern of a mithun, of black colour but a white patch running from the head to the tail at the back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamì] n. weed

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tanĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. twniñ

[Tanɨ agũ] n. Apatani language

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapju] n. a species of bamboo

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tasɨɁ] n. wart

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tutu nanu] n. bumble bee

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨnĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taniñ

[tɨxe] n. louse

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taxe

[xelɨɁ] v. force someone to do something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xomu] n. ritual element of an altar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaanɨ] adj. rotten

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áakúr] v. return; come back

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áɉùu] n. appearance; image

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ápù] n. sphere; globe

Speaker: Tage Kanno