Apatani English

[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

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[aku] n. uncle (esp. maternal) (Term of address) syn. nakú

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[akì durgu] n. wooden trough for feeding dogs

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[alíi] n. seed; descendant; progeny; successor

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[amiɁ miɁbjo] n. eyelash

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[aroɁ] adj. lucky

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[arò kõci] n. dawn

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[buuɲó] adj. small cylinderical object

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Dialect: ant. buurò

[bjaa] v. ruin; disintegrate

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[ceɁ] v. cut (as with scissor)

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[càa] v. take paddy from the granary

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[daɁ] v. stand; be there

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[daarò] adj. big step

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Dialect: ant. daazó

[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty

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[dimpu] n. white hair

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[dɨdɨɁ] v. poisoned (by eating)

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[dɨleɁ] n. remaining food after consumption

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[dɨpjoɁ] v. eat something to add taste to a meal

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[dùuha] v. sit down

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[dùumo] v. take rest

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[ʎãca] v. flow up (of water); overflow

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[ʎiiʎiɁ] adj. horrifying

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Dialect: syn. aha fiifi’

[golu] v. lie

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[gɨneɁ-gɨse] v. lightly touch with any part of the body; flirt

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[gjotu aɉĩ] n. a variety of traditional friend

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[haatĩ bɨlĩ] adv. satisfactorily; confidently; convincingly

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heʎa] v. have patience; have endurance

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[hõkiɁ] v. bend; stoop

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. huñki’

[iɁrũ] v. sleep in somebody else’s house

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[iɉuɁ] n. weak; coward

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[ita] n. brick

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kaco kapaá] adv. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

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[kahó-tamo] adv. in an offending manner

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[kaka-taka] v. take stock of; make enquiries

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[kedu] n. an agricultural implement of short wooden digging stick used to make holes for planting paddy or millet

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[kenna] n. a person who castrates pigs

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Dialect: syn. kwmvr

[kejĩ] adj. good; serene

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[koɁ] v. pry; move or open something or to separate something from something else with force

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[koʎoɁ] adj. bent; not round; irregular

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Dialect: syn. kofo’-koco

[kone abiɁ] pron. everyone

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[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

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[korò] n. the morning before the last

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[kuɁbã] v. keep something, esp. a container, upside down

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[laɁke] v. cross or fold one’s arms

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[laɁtaɁ] n. short stick usually used as a weapon for beating or throwing=

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[laama] adj. few; not many

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Dialect: syn. ice

[laapjó] v. steal (by taking with hands)

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[lĩgja] n. exit; doorway; gateway

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

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[maã] v. creep; grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches (as creepers do)

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[marpu] n. corn silk

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[migĩ] n. expert hunter

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[mokaɁ] adj. sunken (as of face)

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Dialect: etym. zi’mo (face) + paka’ (dent)

[mõ] v. chase; drive away; persue

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[murto] n. metal arrowhead

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Dialect: var. morto

[mɨcì] v. copy; sketch; draw

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[mɨpe] v. separate; detach; disconnect; segregate

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[mɨpeɁ] v. complete; finish

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[mɨxoɁ] v. do something differently

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[mɨxó] v. do something leading to bankruptcy

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[nane] pron. your mother

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Dialect: syn. nama

[nãlò] v. push something down

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Dialect: var. nalò

[nɨmopa] pron. why

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Dialect: var. nwmpa syn. nwtepa

[nɨpu apĩ] n. feast on the occasion of the birth of a newborn baby

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[padu aʎí] n. seasonal wind usually in February

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[paʎi] v. patch; patch on; stitch up; repair

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[pakù sɨma] n. fine in the form of a middle-sized mithun for stealing or killing a cattle

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[parbo] v. crawl across

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[patã áttò] n. a member of the labour gang in whose field it works on the day

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[peŋu] n. a variety of bird; great barbet (Megalaima virens)

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[poɁtũ pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. amú pèeruñ

[por] v. cut as in longitudinally dividing a bamboo into two

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[pore o] n. a variety of beer preparation

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Dialect: syn. pore

[puca] v. float (on water)

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Dialect: ant. puha

[pulúu] adj. white; fair

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[pjatɨ] n. a variety of rice

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[raʎúpjala] adj. absentminded; forgetful; distracted

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[riite] n. a short necklace of white beads worn by children

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[rilĩ] v. throw something out

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[rumali] n. handkerchief

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[saiklo] v. bicycle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[salũ] n. medium sized cucumber

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[sãtũ] n. generation

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[sitãpa] adv. like this; this way

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[subu] n. mithun; bos frontalis

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[taku-tamu] n. a decorated bamboo stick used during penw procession of Muruñ festival

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[Tanɨ miju] n. Apatani people

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[tare] n. thorn

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Dialect: var. twre

[tasi] n. wall

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Dialect: var. tarsi

[teɁʎa] adj. slanted

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[tĩpi] n. dry field; dry cultivation area

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[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[uu] letter name u the letter representing u in the Apatani alphabet

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[uurò] adj. big (of hole) ant. uuzó

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[xapo] n. bamboo rack above the fireplace

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[xei] n. cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum)

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[xõxũ] n. falcon; eagle

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

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[ɲemɨɁ] v. break something into pieces by chewing

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[ɲibo] n. guest

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