Apatani English

[aceɁ] adj. narrow; tight

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

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[ahì amǝr] n. fruit items

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[akì] n. dog

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[amjaɁ] n. penis

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[apɨ-asó] n. area; dimension

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[asè] v. wash; clean

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[aja] adj. good; beautiful; virtuous; righteous; suitable; appropriate

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[ajo] n. grandmother or mother-in-law (term of address)

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[baarã] adj. interior (esp. location of a house)

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[barr] v. chant in a loud manner as when performing some traditional Apatani rituals

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[bɨʎĩ] n. yesterday evening

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[bɨɲã] n. last year

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[ciɁ] v. hold (with both arms)

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[ciɲuɁ] n. soot; impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of wood

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[daaɲó] adj. small step

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Dialect: ant. daarò

[datɨ mida] n. mida of greater variety

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Dialect: ant. daci mida

[daɲi áago] n. west

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Dialect: syn. haatw

[dãtǝr] v. break something by beating

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[deɁ] v. crack; split; rapture

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[diipaɁ] v. peel off; detach

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[ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

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Dialect: syn. aha fiifi’

[galo sudu] n. metallic smoking pipe

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[goɁ] v. measure with outstretched thumb and finger

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[haadɨ] v. get angry; annoyed; enraged

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[haaɉuɁ] adj. light; not heavy

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Dialect: ant. aì

[hargó] v. overtake (esp. by running or driving)

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[heɁteɁ] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

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[hiɁxɨɨ] v. wring; twist

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[hilĩ] n. clotted blood

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[hoi] v. be; happen

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[hõ] v. burn (esp. in bulk)

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[hukɨ-makɨ] adj. impulsive; impetuous; reckless

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[hùuʎiɁ] n. fat; oil

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[ice] adj. few; some; scant; meagre

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Dialect: syn. icu

[iju] n. anus

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Dialect: syn. koyu

[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

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[kalaɁ-kapa] adj. acquainted with

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[kaxaɁ] v. disapprove something; dislike; reject

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[kiruɁ] n. hunting party

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[kone kone] n. ? one by one

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[kopaɁ] v. throw away (from the mouth)

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[la] conj. and

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[laatu] v. catch; seize; intercept

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[lako-lape] v. exchange; interchange; keep something in disorderly fashion

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[lamuɁ-laju] adj. pinkish (color)

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[laŋe] num. hundred

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[lãpĩ] n. nape of the neck

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[lumù] v. speak in sleep

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[lusi-luhaɁ] adj. irritating, exasperating or irksome (to talk to)

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[mǝǝ] letter name m the letter representing m in the Apatani alphabet

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[medǝr agjã] n. altar for purification ritual

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[mɨbjaɁ] v. hurt by causing burns

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[mɨlù-mɨle] v. disturb

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[mɨniɁ] v. Injure a bit while doing something

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[mɨri-mɨɲa] adj. tiny; miniscule

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[mɨɲò] v. drill (esp. exercise)

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[mjoʎi] adj. facing the shady side

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Dialect: ant. myobya

[nǝǝ] letter name n the letter representing n in the Apatani alphabet

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[narɨ ahì] n. lemon

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[nãpja] v. scatter by pushing

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[nẽdú] n. sesame (Sesamum indicum)

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Dialect: var. niñdú

[no hokɨ] pron. from where

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[nunukɨɁ] pron. yours; second person plural pronoun, genitive case

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[nɨre puʎe] n. gunny bag

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[oho gɨ] v. be pregnant

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[pano] v. sting

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[paroɁ pai] n. poultry dropping

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

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[pila sudu] n. bamboo container for storing pila

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[pĩbè] n. snow

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Dialect: var. peñbè

[poŋe] adj. different

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[pɨɁ] v. sweep; clean

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[pɨjo] n. Rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nepalensis)

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[pju] v. move to and fro (esp. a post)

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[reɁxaɁ] v. injure by scraping with something

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[sihɁ] n. spring (esp. where animals come to drink)

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[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

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[taʎũ] n. tapeworm larvae

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[tagɨ] v. learn (by listening)

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[takeɁ] n. germ

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[tapĩ] n. a species of bamboo

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[tappo] n. spinning knot

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[tatũ bulũ] adj. chubby

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Dialect: var. utuñ buluñ

[tãxɨ̃] v. get drunk

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[tusǝr] v. straighten one’s leg

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[tɨgeɁ] v. stick; adhere; be glued

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Dialect: syn. age’

[tɨre] n. thorn

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Dialect: syn. tare

[ɨrɨ] v. fumigate rodents in their holes with smoke

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[xẽpi] v. dry by heating

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[xɨ] v. slide while in sitting position; scoot

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[jaaɉeɁ] adj. garrulous (of a person)

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[jaɉuɁ] n. ladle

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[jasi anɨ] n. water beetle

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Dialect: syn. cuuzi

[ɲaʎã] n. ten years

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[ɲiɁtɨ] n. a variety of maize

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[ɲimaɁ] n. war; enemy

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[ɲimɨ] n. female

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[ɲoɁ] v. to abstain from doing some things during ritual prohibition

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[ákótá] pron. one more

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