Apatani English

[aamɨ] n. mango

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[amiɁ-agũ] n. design; motif; pattern (esp.in embroidery)

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[arò daʎi] n. forenoon

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[ajo-asiɁ] n. ancestors; progenitors

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[beɁce] v. crack; split; rapture

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[bipĩ] n. mat of animal skin

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[boha] n. cane rope tied to a babó for acrobatic game; acrobatic game played on the rope

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[busuɁ] v. get loose; loosen; slacken

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[bɨɲiɁ-bɨɲa] adj. silky; delicate; soft

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Dialect: syn. bwza-bwza

[bátè] adj. thick (of mud or liquid)

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[caaɲaɁ poro] n. outer space

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[cortĩ] n. waterfall

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[ditũ-potũ] n. ceremony; social event; occasion

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Dialect: syn. dituñ

[doha] n. world; realm

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Dialect: syn. doha-dolo

[doorò] adj. big (of an animal or vehicle)

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Dialect: ant. dorzó

[ẽtɨ patã] n. labor gang for paddy harvesting

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[ʎeɁko] n. doorlatch

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Dialect: syn. arkonanw; fe’pu

[ʎoɁli] n. hilt; handle or butt of a machete

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[gaarò] adj. large, as a field

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Dialect: ant. gartú

[haaɲa] adj. small; young

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[harbjã] adj. full (as of moon)

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[hã] v. investigate; make enquiries; probe; enquire

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[heme] n. oath; promise

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[heme] v. promise; vow; pledge

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[hẽ] v. think; love

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[hẽki] adj. sincere; honest; unfeigned

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[hĩ] v. pinch

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[hore] num. one bundle (esp. of thread)

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[ĩci] v. reach

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[ɉiʎá] n. coarse silk

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[ɉihiɁ] adj. quiet; silent

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[ɉihɨ-ɉixe] v. roll to and fro

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[ɉiimu] n. giddiness

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[keembeɁ] adj. taste, as of spoilt fat; rancid

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Dialect: syn. keeme’

[kiluɁ] n. a small compartment in the granary usually for storng millet or agricultural implements

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[kormo] n. seed

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[kormu] n. grasshopper var. kurmu

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[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

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

[kɨciɁ] v. hiccup

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[kɨɉĩ] v. stretch on tiptoe

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[kɨɉǝr] v. brandish; wield; flaunt

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[kɨle pemu] n. a variety of flowering plant that grows on the banks of the river

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Dialect: syn. kwle peñbu

[kóò] n. son

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

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[laatu] v. catch; seize; intercept

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[lãku] adj. tilted, esp. the head

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Dialect: etym. láañ (from láaqú) + kù

[leɁca] n. cane havershack covered with fibres from the bark of a particular tree worn during jungle expeditions or during war-related rituals

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[lupa] v. remind; help someone remember

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[lɨbã] n. knee

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[lɨɨ] v. lie down

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[lɨji] n. footprint, esp. of animals

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[miilò] n. eighth lunar month of the year; July-August

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Dialect: syn. miilò pwlò

[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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[murpu] n. bonfire

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[mɨcǝr] adv. innovatively; ingenuously

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[mɨdù] n. time for doing something

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[mɨɉaɁ] v. tear something by handing it

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[mɨmĩ-mɨhĩ] v. do something without a purpose

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[mɨpu] v. do something inadvertently; commit mistake

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[mjamja pɨro] n. plated bamboo basket for storing the myamya brass plate

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[nẽ] v. send someone somewhere

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[nẽpũ] n. space outside the house on the left side

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[ohó] adj. tall; high

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[paɁpo] n. a bamboo pole suspended horizontally on the side wall of the house for keeping clothes

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[patɨ ahi] n. tiger tooth

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[pató hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Clerodendrum colebrookianum)

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[paxu] n. shell; scale

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[pi] v. slice or saw

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[puɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

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Dialect: syn. tw’jiñ

[puɲó] adj. small (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. purò

[pɨta sihɁ] n. puddle or pond where birds gather to drink water

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[pjar] v. fold; braid

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[ŋɨʎã xɨko hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; centella; gotu kola (Centella asiatica)

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

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[saã] v. grow; live

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[sabɨ] n. officer; a dignified person

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[sardĩ] n. short-cut

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[sisi] n. now

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Dialect: var. swsi

[some] n. bamboo shavings used as an element of altar as well as for decoration

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Dialect: syn. jompu

[subu ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes

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[sɨmǝr] n. silt; sand

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

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[taiɁ sɨtĩ] n. epileptic fit

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[takoɁ] n. dirt

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[tano-gorgo] n. snail

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Dialect: var. tano-gogo

[tarú] n. mosquito

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[taxe] n. tick

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Dialect: syn. twxe

[tejaɁ] n. millet (Setaria italica)

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[tẽbjaɁ] v. get burnt by touching something hot

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[tooko] n. prop; support; post

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[tɨɁɉaɁ-tɨɁjaɁ] v. tear apart; rip

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[xɨɉã-xɨro] n. bowels

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[jaabũ] adj. dull (of a person)

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[jacu] n. small bamboo container for salt or tobacco

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[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

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[jugjã] n. ritual altar of the Apatanis

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Dialect: syn. agyañ

[óòpaɁ] v. hoe off; dig out

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[úì bée] v. a variety of chanting during a particular ritual

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