Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[aarí] n. saw

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Hindi

[aaxaɁ] adj. shallow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uuxa’ ant. aarañ

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

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

[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎã] num. ten

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahi daktor] n. dentist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahu ará] adj. naked; nude; undressed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amí] n. elder sister (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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

[araɁ] v. tie

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[artù] n. gizzard (of a bird)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asǝr] n. splinter (of wood)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bakaɁ] n. dent; depression

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[basɨɁ] n. bank (of a river); riverbank; shore

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bẽ] v. vocalize (esp. of animals and birds); chirp; warble; sing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bilã abíi] n. Red and white Apatani traditional skirt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[bjoɁdá] adj. bright; brilliant

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cãtɨ] n. earth

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cixɨ-cixo] n. a variety of bird; black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[diixɨ] n. coarse sand

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. swxw; súrù

[duɁ] v. throb; beat (as of heart)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dũbĩ] adj. bald; hairless

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. duñxó

[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùuha] v. sit down

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ẽtɨ pɨlò] n. tenth lunar month; October

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎòobó] v. jump across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁsǝr] v. strangle with hand

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨɁ] v. lie down

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[haaso haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hiɁ] v. feel; search with hand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hɨki] n. stillbirth

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲur hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

Speaker: Nani Anga

[húì] v. fall

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iʎĩ linɨ̃] n. rectal prolapse

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩgo] n. task; obligation to go

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉiʎũ] n. Indian strawberry (Potentilla indica)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. jifiñ

[katè] v. visit; go to see; look around

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kokã] adj. late; lower

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kami

[korlã] n. thunderbolt; ritual performed to prevent thunderbolt

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koɲã] n. the year before last; two years ago

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[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. karo talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kɨmĩ talo] n. a variety of brass plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kɨra raadu] n. chestnut

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[kɨri harnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kwri du’nw

[laɁpù] v. close the hand to make a fist

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãɉã] n. base of the head; nape of the neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lurù] adj. stubborn; obstinate; recalcitrant; difficult to speak

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maɉi] n. Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miʎa bariɁ] n. whirlwind

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. ro bari’

[miʎĩ] n. tip (of a plant or a tree)

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[miikɨ] adj. belonging to others; not own

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[mɨlaɁ-lulaɁ] adj. skilled; expert

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. miki

[mɨmĩ] v. win

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mɨnì] v. prune; trim

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨnù-mɨna] adv. worthlessly; uselessly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjamja] n. ringworm

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nãpaɁ] v. push something away

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohò] n. sharp bamboo stick put on the ground to prevent intrusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paapi] n. a variety of flowering plant (Hedychium ellipticum)

Example: Photo by Tapi Takha

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pace] v. cut into two pieces

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[paʎa-paca] adj. unsteady; staggering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[parĩ] adj. combination of two or more colors

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pixɨ] n. spindle used for spinning thread from cotton

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. pixu syn. tapo

[pooró] adj. wide; vast

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. poñcu’

[pɨdi pɨɲiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pwdi pwfi’

[pɨlo harbjã] n. full moon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtĩ] n. an open space

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pé] v. distribute; dole out; apportion; allocate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋarka ɉiɉa] adj. smiling; smiling face; happy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁrĩ] n. cough

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sah] n. tea

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[sala bortaɁ] n. cobra; King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. sala burta’

[saleɁ] adj. raw, as of wood; standing wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taiɁ tapĩ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talũ] adj. an infertile woman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapǝr] n. heavy log put on a prisoner’s legs to prevent escape

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twpvr

[tarɲe] n. pus

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. taze

[toɲó] adj. small (of group)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. toñrò

[tudɨ] adj. short

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨpi-tɨpo] adj. neat; accurate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨpjaɁ tarɨ] n. a variety of cotton top

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[túpiɁ] v. break something fragile by kicking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ura] n. inside (as of a house)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. agoo

[ũ] v. sip; take a sip

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨrɨɨ] n. horn

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. arww; swrww

[ɨtɨ rɨbɨ] n. bamboo shoot

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. behé, byapu’, wtw bwrw

[xɨpaɁ] v. subtract

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xú] v. aim

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[jasi] n. water

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[jasi parĩ] n. stork (Ciconia nigra)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲakù] adj. tilted; askew

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲar] v. step on something

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zor