Apatani English

[abã] n. burning pain

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[abú] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated

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Dialect: var. arbú,

[aɉóo] n. fare; wage

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[apĩ] v. warm (hand)

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[arĩ] adj. brittle; fragile; breakable

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[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

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[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

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[bíiɁ] v. emit sound; echo

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[cãdɨ metɨ] n. an agricultural ritual of the Apatanis

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[ciɁ] v. hold (with both arms)

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[cĩ] v. know; comprehend; understand

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[darɨɁ] adj. clean; pure; clear

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[dĩxuɁ] n. skull

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[dũbĩ] adj. bald; hairless

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Dialect: syn. duñxó

[dɨpjo aíi] n. canine tooth

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[dù] v. dig; excavate

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[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

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Dialect: var. imo

[ʎaɁ] v. burn; singe; smolder

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[gaɁsǝr] v. strangle with hand

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[gõdu] n. arbitration; mediation; mediator

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[haatĩ bɨlĩ] adv. satisfactorily; confidently; convincingly

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[haʎã sãxã meʎã] n. hibiscus (Hibiscus rosasinensis)

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[haŋɨ] pron. something; a thing that is unknown or unspecified

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[hiɁɉã] v. wring; twist clothing to dry it.

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[hixɨ̃] adj. tingling sharp sensation in the teeth; feeling, in the teeth, after eating sour food

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[hoã] n. back (anatomy)

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Dialect: syn. huañ

[huɁhɨ-huɁxe] v. shake to and fro

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[hɨki] n. stillbirth

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[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave

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[iɁmǝr] v. sleep deeply

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[ɉimi-ɉaama] adj. hazy; smoggy

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[kahó-tamo] adv. in an offending manner

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[karo] v. spy; peep

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[koojo] n. the night before the last

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[laɁrã] n. a hoop earing worn by priests on ceremonial occasions

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

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[lo] post. with; by

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[lunù-luna] v. speak in vain

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[lɨpjo] n. sole

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[lɨpì] v. dry

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[male baɁnɨ] n. porter; carrier

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[malo-kalo] adv. please; pray

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[milĩ] adj. serious (of health status) adv. with great difficulty; by hook or by crook

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[mipá sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

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[mɨtù] n. beginning

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[mɨtù] v. do something for the first time

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[mɨju] n. ash

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[mjɨ-oho] n. family; wife and children

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[narpaɁ] v. lend; loan

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[neha appú] n. primrose (Primula spp.)

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Dialect: syn. bagañ rizo

[paakaɁ] n. plate

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Dialect: syn. paaku’

[paduɁ] v. damage by cutting

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[paduɁ] v. hop to express extremes of emotions

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[pahe] v. pledge a property to the creditor as a security

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[parbo] v. crawl across

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[patu] v. cut something into two or more pieces

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[patɨ] n. tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)

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[paxuɁ] n. partridge

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[paxɨ̃] v. blunt a sharp weapon by cutting on a hard material

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[pajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

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Dialect: syn. paya’-gaaya’

[pilá aláa] n. rice water

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[piro] n. swampy land; marshy area

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[pĩ] v. pinch; grasp; tweak; nip

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[pĩkã] adv. nasalized speech or voice

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[pohiɁ] v. caress; pet; fondle; stroke

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Dialect: syn. pohi’-poso etym. po (hug) + hi’ (frisk)

[poli-poli] adv. rapidly; swiftly

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[puca] v. float (on water)

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Dialect: ant. puha

[puɲũ] adj. normal; typical; usual

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[pɨca] adj. foolish, stupid, dumb

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[pɨgĩ] n. vulture

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[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

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[pjar] v. fold; braid

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[pjoɁ] v. detach (a splinter from a wood

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[párkó] v. drill a hole

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[ŋaatɨ] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaare

[rimjoɁ-riso] adj. striped; streaked; variegated

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Dialect: syn. ripó-rilo

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

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[saɁrĩ] n. cough

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[soh] v. play; joke; flirt

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[sosiɁ-sosiɁ] adv. in a line; one after the other

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[sɨɲã-sɨlò] adv. now a days; these days

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[taa] v. swim

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[takĩ ɲaɁco] n. cowrie shell

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Dialect: syn. takiñ

[tappo] n. spinning knot

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[tardu] n. a bamboo container for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. yo tardu

[taxóo] n. a variety of fern

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[tuɁteɁ] n. forehead of a cattle

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[ude] n. house

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[ukó simbja] n. rear balcony

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[uugũ] n. entrance of a hole

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[ɨskul] n. school

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Dialect: syn. uskul or. English

[jagɨ] n. cane or bamboo basket

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[jãko patɨ] n. lion (Panthera lion)

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[jo patǝr] n. cane basket for storing meat

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[ɲimũ] n. young woman

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[áamì] n. cat

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[áamì atúu] n. kitten

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[ákò] adj. low; short

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[árbì] n. portion of pork offered to wife’s eldest living sister

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[ǝǝŋ] letter name ñ the letter representing nasalization on the preceding vowel in the Apatani alphabet

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