Apatani English

[abĩ] adj. fruitful; productive

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. asu’

[aɉĩ-apɨ] n. company; friendship

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɉĩbò] n. friend (used as both term of reference and address)

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[alo] n. salt

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[aróo] adj. poor; destitute

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axɨ̃-amɨ] adv. confused; disconcerted; befuddled; dumbfounded

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aja-kaco] n. quality; condition

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajóo] n. up; upper

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨdí baɁlo] n. conspiracy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjaako] n. kind of edible berry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dacã] n. iron; metal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daci mida] n. mida of lesser variety

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. datw mida

[daɲi caca] n. a small variety of cicada

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diiʎã pákù] n. Mountain Imperial Pigeon (Ducula badia)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diipe] n. spade

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[diixɨ] n. coarse sand

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

[duu] n. paddy for husking

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. dwlo

[eɁcĩ] adv. skilled in shooting

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ẽbĩ] n. husked rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎòobó] v. jump across

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gasu] v. have verbal quarrel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨxuɁ] n. worn out dress

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaʎĩ] adj. beautiful; handsome; pretty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haapĩ] n. fog; mist

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haapiñ tagyañ

[heɁ] v. knit

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heɁteɁ] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁsi-rasi] adj. hot and humid

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hubur] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. hurbu

[igɨ] n. evil spirits

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉarpĩ] v. hysteria; sickness caused by the spirit of a dead person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉeɁmeɁ] adj. flat; deflatted

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[ɉigɉiro] n. kind of a traditional shawl

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karo] v. spy; peep

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[korò] n. the morning before the last

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[kɨbjoɁ] v. flash; sparkle

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[káɉù] int. yes; okay

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁtĩ] adv. forcefully; with strength

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[lã] v. move (esp. of head)

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[lobjoɁ tɨre] n. a variety of thorny plant

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lobyo’ tare

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. miilò pwlò

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miju] n. human beings

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. neha

[mɨci] n. kite (bird)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨlaɁ-lulaɁ] adj. skilled; expert

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. miki

[mɨŋo] v. stop doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

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[mɨjã] n. a variety of plant used as tinder

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjɨ-milo] n. married couple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nalò] v. push down

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nañlò

[neɁ] v. rub or scrape

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nu] v. collect; accumulate; assemble; stockpile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nunu] pron. second person plural pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[o barde] n. cane basket used for distilling rice/millet beer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bardè

[par] v. make or light fire; ignite fire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pari] n. tree sparrow (-Passer montanus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pari pwta

[parmɨɁ] v. grind in powder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ] n. chicken; fowl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ papúu] n. white chicken

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pã] v. cook by steaming in bamboo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[peenɨ] n. ceremonial procession as a part of Murung festival

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pili] n. playground; open field

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[pĩta] n. rounded liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[poɁdo] v. stumble over or fall down accidentally

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[puha] v. sink (in water)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. puca

[puhaɁ] n. crow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. poha’

[pɨcó] v. make offering to God before food or drink in the form a morsel of rice or a drop of drink

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɲiɁ] n. early maturing variety of paddy belonging to mìipyá group

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[rõ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ruñ

[rɨɁ] v. sit (as do the chickens); perch; roost

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[saɁpĩ saɁko] adj. suffocating; stifling

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[sampju] n. a variety of blue colored beads

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sardĩ] v. take a short cut

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[siɁ] n. urine

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[simbja] n. balcony in a traditional house

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. siñbya

[sɨbi bisǝr] n. a variety of monkey

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[sɨbi laɁhĩ] n. a variety of creeper used for decoration

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[tadǝr] n. a bamboo species (Pleioblastus simonii)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tala] n. lock

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tapi] n. a variety of cane

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tapiɁ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. qwwla; pwtiñ qwwla

[tapǝr] adv. terrible (to hear)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarlar] n. peacock

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. tar pwta

[telɨɁ] v. push something in by finger

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. teliñ etym. teñ + alw’

[tiɁmjaɁ] v. stain; smudge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ti’mya’-ti’sa

[tĩpi] n. dry field; dry cultivation area

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[tooro] n. Rhino beetle

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[topaɁ] v. pour something away

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[turcã] n. post; pillar

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Dialect: var. torcañ

[tɨxɨɁ] adj. curly

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[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨ] v. count; innumerate

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[janɨ] n. leaf

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. anw

[jo tardu] n. a bamboo container for storing meat

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tardu

[ɲabe] v. frown; scowl

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲãpo tasĩ] n. prawn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ákò] adj. low; short

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[úì] n. spirit; god; devil

Speaker: Tage Kanno