Apatani English

[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[adũ-arã] adj. disoriented; muddled; confused

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[aʎĩ] n. evening; dusk; late afternoon

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[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

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[aɉóo] v. hire; pay for

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[akì dula] n. rope used to tie dogs; dog rope

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[akì kíinɨ] n. bitch

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[apáa] adj. young; immature

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[argò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon var. arrò

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[aɲã] n. year

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[baɲo] adj. small flat object

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

[beɁ] v. spring, something under tension; leap (as frogs do)

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[bebuɁ] n. gun

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mubu’; bibu’

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. bwsañ tabú

[bɨsi] n. traditional ballad; song; lyrics

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjaa] v. ruin; disintegrate

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[caarò] adj. big (of pot)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. cazó

[ceɁxoɁ] v. diasgree; differ; diverge from

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɁhiɁ-daɁmo] v. stand for a while; wait for a while

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[daɲi alo] n. Sunday

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[deʎã-rɨcã] n. bell used by priest during rituals

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[deŋe] n. hair (of a child)

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[durgu] n. wooden trough

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[dáa] v. take step; pace; tread

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[ẽtɨ pataɁ] n. wooden try on which to beat while harvesting paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[garpɨɁ] n. paddy field in the lower portion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. garta’

[hiicí] v. grimace; make face (usually in pain)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. hiizi’

[huuto] n. light

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨsò] n. a variety of bamboo

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. bihé

[húì] v. fall

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ɉirɨ] v. spin; rotate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kadú] v. look upwards

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[kakur] v. look back

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[kanu] num. seven

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[katĩ] v. compare; analogize to; equate to

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[koiɁ] v. a way of putting on a cloth on the body, esp. by the males

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[kɨdi] n. soil

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[kɨla kɨla] adj. eyes wide open

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[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁta] v. open the hand; unclench the fist

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[lama] adj. few; some; scant; meager

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Dialect: syn. icu; ice

[lãgja] adj. (dog) with a white neck

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[leɁ] v. flap (of wing)

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[lemba] n. village

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[luɉu-lumjo] adj. manner of speaking

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[lɨdì] n. base; bottom; way; footprint

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[lɨŋǝr] n. ankle

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[mah] int. no; exclamation for negative response to a question

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miʎa ri] n. sudden onset eye pain

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[more mɨjã] n. black kite (Milvus migrans)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[muku sudu] n. smoking pipe

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[mula] n. radish

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mɨbju] v. contaminate (esp. liquids)

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

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. aku

[nasɨ] n. dance or. Hindi

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Dialect: var. nasu

[nɨɁjuɁ] v. prick; pierce

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

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[oha] int. interjection to express surprise

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[pagi jaru] n. Common hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pamã] n. bamboo rack in front wall of the house

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[pamí] n. chicken louse

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[parbo] v. crawl across

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[paxoɁ sudu] n. a long bamboo container for smoking spicy food

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[piɁɲi] num. eight

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[poi] n. residual fermented millet after preparation of beer

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[pũtu] adj. hump; ridge; bulge; swelling

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Dialect: ant. paka’

[pɨɉe] n. June; seventh lunar month of the year

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[pɨtĩ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

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Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla; qwwla

[pɨɲú] n. brain

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[pjaɁmĩ puʎe] n. a variety of traditional shawl

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[pjuɁnɨ] n. seller

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[ŋɨi sɨpǝr] n. fish pond

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[ŋɨmi] pron. me

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[rade emo] n. a late ripening variety of paddy

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[rahe] adv. serious; solemn; earnest; profound

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[rari hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Piper brachystachum)

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Dialect: var. raru hamañ

[rãda] n. smoothing plane

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[riilaɁ] n. tendril

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[roɁko] n. a bamboo strip that tightens the beams of a house

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[rupu] n. silver

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Dialect: var. rwpu

[rɨgĩ] n. an element of gwrw (trap)

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[saʎó] n. a variety of tree; Fragrant Himalayan Champaka (Michelia champaca)

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[saroɁ sanɨ] n. banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis)

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[sãxã] n. border post

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[sɨʎĩ daʎi] n. this afternoon; towards this evening

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[sù] v. rear; breed; bring up; nurture

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[taɁɲó] adj. small (of flat objects); thin; narrow

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taʎũ] n. tapeworm larvae

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[talɨɁ] v. agree

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[tasĩ siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. siñbo

[telĩ] v. push something out

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Dialect: ant. telw’ etym. teñ + aliñ

[tumbu ude] n. tent

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[tuupo] n. a plant whole upper portion has been removed

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[tɨdɨ] adj. short

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Dialect: ant. wbyo’

[utũ bulũ] adj. chubby; healthy

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Dialect: var. tatuñ buluñ

[ũ] v. sip; take a sip

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[xẽŋu] v. warm something

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[xè] v. suffice; be enough

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