Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abju] v. move; shake; flutter; budge

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[abúu] n. a cylinderical structure

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Dialect: ant. aro’

[adĩ ácì] n. headache

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[aʎaɁ] v. lick; lap

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[ahe] v. bet; wager; gamble

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[aiɁ] adj. miser; mean

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[akó kõtɨɁ] adj. only one; alone

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[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

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Dialect: syn. opa’

[arè] adj. loose; not fixed tightly or firmly

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

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[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

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[buuro] adj. thick or big cylindrical object

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Dialect: ant. buuzó

[bábì] n. swing; dangle

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[ceɁceɁ] adj. stubborn, obstinate

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[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

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Dialect: syn. cíkù

[daɁʎa] v. wait (standing); halt; pause

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[damu] n. wooden digging stick used as an agricultural implement

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

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Dialect: ant. dorzó

[dɨŋó] n. left-over food

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[endi] n. rice plant; rice seedling

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[gora] n. horse

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[gorbã] n. shoulder

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[gɨɁ] v. lie down

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[gjapja-gjasa] v. spread by throwing

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[ha] v. come; arrive; enter

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Dialect: syn. áa

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

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[hɨʎã] prep. like; similar; alike

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[háatɨ mɨlɨ] adv. hopefully; confidently; optimistically

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[ĩci] v. reach

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[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

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[ɉoɉo roɁpo] n. a kind of a small bird

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[ɉopjã] v. close something by placing something in the opening ant. joko’

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[kapjóɉaɁpa] adv. firstly

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[karo] v. spy; peep

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[kẽte puʎe] n. a variety of shawl usually made by stitching togethe discarded clothes

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[kolĩ] v. throw out (from the mouth)

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[koju tapjo] n. coccyx; tail bone

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[kojũ] adv. thrusting movement of hips

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[kursi] n. chair

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Dialect: or. Assamese

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

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Dialect: syn. kwrí inw; kwri harnw

[laɁsĩ] n. forearm

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[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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[locũ] n. bone marrow

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[lɨgeɁ] n. popliteal space; hollow of the knee

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[lɨnɨ] n. big toe

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[mepa] v. search out; find out

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[mɨmjó] v. do something in advance

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[mɨpuɁ] v. cover

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[mɨpjó] v. do something secretly

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[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

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[nelo] n. household; independent house

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[nẽxa] adj. stale

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[nɨɁpu] v. swallow without chewing; gozzle down; gobble down

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[paɁsǝr] v. kill by hanging

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[pahe] v. pledge a property to the creditor as a security

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[palo-malo] n. world

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[parɨ] v. rotate

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[parì-pagjò] adj. mosaic like appearance

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[paxoɁ sudu] n. a long bamboo container for smoking spicy food

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[paxuɁ itú] n. a dance usually performed before harvest

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[pilá] n. rice porridge

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[pisǝr] v. kill by cutting the throat

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

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Dialect: var. pixu syn. tapo

[pukũ hóonɨ] n. a close relative of Muruñ sponsor who takes care of the food and drinks for pukuñ participants

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[pɨcã] n. pot

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[pɨnã] n. rice husk

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Dialect: syn. empw

[pɨɲã] n. a variety of ceremonial friend with whom the head of the sacrificial animal is exchanged

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[pɨɲu] n. spoon

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[pjaɁ] v. splash; throw (water)

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[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[ŋaatɨ] adj. lose taste or inability to eat more

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Dialect: syn. qaare

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

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Dialect: var. ruñ

[rõxe] adv. six times

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[rì aʎĩ] n. the day after tomorrow evening

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[ríi] n. drool

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[sabeɁ] n. key

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sampju] n. a variety of blue colored beads

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[sosma] n. goggle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tǝǝ] letter name t the letter representing t in the Apatani alphabet

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[tabu] n. snake

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[takǝr] n. star

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[tamù] n. a deity

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[taŋu-aláa] n. honey

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[tarsi] n. wall

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Dialect: var. tasi

[tarɨ] n. shirt; top

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[tejaɁ] n. millet (Setaria italica)

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[tolĩ] v. pour something out

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Dialect: ant. tolw’

[tooko] n. prop; support; post

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[tɨ] v. offer

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[túhɨ-túxeɁ] v. kick to and fro with the limb

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[une] n. wound

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[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

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[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[jasi parĩ] n. stork (Ciconia nigra)

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[jo patǝr] n. cane basket for storing meat

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[jorsã] n. green chili

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[ɲuu] v. prod as with a needle

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[ádù] v. get pricked (by a thorn)

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[árbì] n. portion of pork offered to wife’s eldest living sister

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