Apatani English

[ací] n. elder brother’s wife (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎiɁ] n. pig

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[agǝr] n. bundh; raised earthen boundary between paddy fields where millet is planted

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[ahi daktor] n. dentist

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[alì lɨpjo] n. sole

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[apĩ] v. warm (hand)

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[arcì] v. roll

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[ato] n. grandfather or father in law (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[atúu] n. progeny; young; offspring; baby animal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[axóo] n. stalk; stem

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[balu] n. garden

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[bare] num. one (of flat objects)

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[burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake; cobra

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. borta’

[bɨɨ] v. hold; keep; own

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. buu

[car] v. boil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dacã pɨcã] n. metallic pot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲi tatɨɁ arnɨɁ] n. solar eclipse

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dĩ] v. pound with something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dulu káanɨ] n. a person who looks after somebody else’s cattle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨbe] v. eat to heart’s content; eat so much one cannot eat any more

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨma-haama] n. purification ritual

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[dɨri] n. purchase of food in times of scarcity or in anticipation of scarcity

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùuko] n. place of residence; sitting place

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[ee] letter name e the letter representing e in the Apatani alphabet

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[ʎiɁkũ-ʎiri] adj. wrinkled; crease; pucker; crinkle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaɁti] v. hold tightly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gaiɁ] v. sing

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[gaŋu] n. mouth harp

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[golu] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gɨɨɲó] adj. small (of a basket)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gwwrò

[haadɨ] v. get angry; annoyed; enraged

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hadɨ] v. be angry

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hilĩ] n. clotted blood

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁbĩ] n. sweat

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

[huuda] adj. bright

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[hɨɨ] pron. that

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[ɉar] num. thousand

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[ɉiɉepa] adv. really; genuinely; honestly

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉirɨ-ɉixe] v. rotate to and fro

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[ɉomɨɁ] n. cloud

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[kebaɁ-kela] v. hug or embrace in an intimate way; hug in a playful way

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[kociɁ hamã] n. dandelion (Taraxacum sp.); Lit. bitter vegetable

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[kohaɁ] n. cricket

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[kopaɁ] v. throw away (from the mouth)

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[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

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[koŋ koɲã] n. four years back

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[kupjuɁ] v. rinse (esp. a container like a pot)

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Dialect: syn. kupyu’ kusvr

[kɨpaɁ] n. banana

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Dialect: syn. kwpa’ ahì

[kɨrã] adj. hardworking; often

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[laɁkuɁ kǝrǝ] n. mole; a small burrowing insectivorous mammal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

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[laaxeɁ] v. keep something upside down

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[leɁpì] n. Chinese green onion (Allium fistulosum)

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Dialect: syn. tale’; twle’

[lobu] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu loci

[lohĩ] n. three days

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[lokũ] n. one day (term of enumeration)

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[male] n. luggage; load; baggage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mẽli] v. kill as revenge

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. meli

[moru] n. cheek

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

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[mɨpjò] adj. easy (to do); good to do

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

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[mjã] v. name

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ne] pron. how much; how many

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[nɨmã] n. eaves and twigs; underbrush

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[nɨsĩ-nɨmã] n. flora; plants

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[née] v. wrestle

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[oɲiɁ-rɨɲiɁ] adj. cute; small and beautiful

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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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[paroɁ lãxa] n. poultry house

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[paroɁ pɨha] n. basket of bamboo splits where chicks hatch

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[pepuɁ] n. mat; reed used for making mats (Phragmites karka)

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[perũ jaanɨ] n. fermented soybean

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[piɁ] v. bear; put up with

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[Pinɨ] n. Creator

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[poorò] adj. big, of cylinderical objects

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Dialect: ant. poozó

[potĩ] n. an element of loin loom

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[pɨta] n. bird

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[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

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[rasó] v. position lengthwise

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Dialect: ant. rapw

[sa ciɁri] n. a variety of antique sword

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[saɁpĩ saɁko] adj. suffocating; stifling

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[sɨlo bɨʎo] n. recently; lately; now a days

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[sɨre] n. wild pig; boar

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[tabu somĩ] n. a variety of legless lizard

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taiɁ tapĩ] n. corn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapǝr] n. cane leaves used during ritual in Myoko festival

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarko] n. variety of plant used as antiseptic after burning it.

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tũ] v. imprison; confine; hold captive

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɨrɨɨ] n. horn

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Dialect: syn. arww; swrww

[xaa] v. collect; collect contributions

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Dialect: syn. mya

[xaŋ] n. bed; cot

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Dialect: syn. saq

[jana] n. a species of bamboo

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[japĩ hulo] n. nose plug

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[japǝr] n. mortar

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[jasi] n. water

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[ɲimɨ ĩgja] n. space between the hearth and the wall on the right side while entering the house

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[áamì] n. cat

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[áɉù] n. appearance; image

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. kájù