Apatani English

[abjá] n. ladder; stepladder

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abrv

[agoo] adj. external; exterior

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. ura

[aláa] n. juice, broth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alóo xuu] n. inherited property (esp. house plot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ama] n. mother (term of address)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ane

[amiɁ ácì] n. conjunctivitis; eye disease

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amjã] n. name

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. armyañ

[arũ] v. be possessed (esp. by evil spirits)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[asǝr] n. splinter (of wood)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ajò lɨpá] n. midnight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bahũ] adv. vomiting tendency; retch

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bariɁ] v. get up; stand up syn. guri’

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. guri’

[bulũ-bɨle] adj. sickly, unappetizing var. bwluñ-bwle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. bwluñ-bwle

[bum] n. bomb

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[bũci] n. ninth month of the year; September-October

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨɨ] v. give birth to

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. buu

[bóì] n. track made by large game

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cãciɁ-doci] adj. nagging; vexatiuos; troublesome (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[cuu] v. move with head forward

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[damĩda] n. a variety of Apatani traditional dance, accompanied by bwsí

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɲi agjã] n. altar for propitiating Dazi (the Sun God)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dãsò] n. spear with long handle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dùuko-dako] n. accommodation; address

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ektor] n. actor

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[empu] n. a variety of white rice, usually late ripening

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ẽtɨ patã] n. labor gang for paddy harvesting

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ʎiro toko] n. uvula

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎoɁro] n. sharp edge of the sword

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gijã] n. cabbage leaf mustard (Brassica juncea var. rugosa)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. giyañ hamañ

[goo] v. demarcate a boundary (esp. with fencing)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[goobɨ-cibɨ] v. preserve; protect; safeguard

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gɨɁi] v. fall down (from standing position)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haace] adj. sad; heart-breaking

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haadɨ] v. get angry; annoyed; enraged

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaɉaɁ] adv. excessive; exhorbitant; too much

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haasopa] adv. slowly; sluggishly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haasǝr] n. the internodal part of a bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaja piɁ] v. starve

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[harlã] n. thigh

Speaker: Nani Anga

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiile] v. smile smugly; simper; smile coquettishly; grin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hoɁko-hoɁpe] adj. tangled; knotty

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hor] v. dry; harden (as of paddy in sun)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[horci] adj. smart; agile

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ipoɁ poɁli] n. yeast used for preparation of new batches of yeasts

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ĩgu] v. change direction or destination of going

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉarpaɁ] v. toss away

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. jaapa’

[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kago-tago] adj. showy; pretentious; ostentatious

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kobja] adj. generous; altruistic; forthcoming; quick in giving

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kõda] n. tommorow morning

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁso goɁhe] n. one unit of la’so, equivalent to the distance between outstretched thumb and middle finger

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[loɲì] n. two days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[luxoɁ] v. disagree; express different opinion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[maɁbo] n. son in law (term of reference)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[magù] v. bellow as an expression of distress

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mãpo] n. roof covering

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁtĩ amu] v. eyebrow

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[more] n. forest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨsiɁ] v. take one’s turn in doing something

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nakó] n. portion of village (esp. the lower one)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nami

[nẽbu] n. home

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[no hokɨ] pron. from where

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[no hopa] pron. for where

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nuu] v. knead something (as dough) or as in washing cloth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨbju] n. textile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ohò] n. sharp bamboo stick put on the ground to prevent intrusion

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paakuɁ] n. plate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. paaka’

[pace] v. cut into two pieces

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pace] n. the other side

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[pacu jagɨ] n. a small cane basket used as a measure of grain

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paxu] n. shell; scale

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[peca] n. a variety of wild apple

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pece] v. wrench something into two parts; pry something into two

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. petú

[po] v. hug; embrace; clasp

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨpĩ] n. bamboo mat for drying paddy or millet

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtaɁ] n. a variety of tree; wild pear (Pyrus pashia)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨpa] pron. for me

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨɨla] n. owl

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla

[rĩbi tasũ] n. spider web

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨɁ] v. cut into pieces with sawing or slicing movement

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁpĩ saɁko] adj. suffocating; stifling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saɁrĩ] n. cough

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sukũ pɨtĩ] n. open space by a well

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁce] n. crack; rupture; split

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarĩ] n. woven cane ring used as kneelet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tau jamu] n. firefly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tero] n. chili

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tusiɁ-tusiɁ] adv. one after the other

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[ɨpɨɁ] v. sweep

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[xeɁŋɨ] v. sob impulsively

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xootu] n. metal skewer for male hair knot

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaɁhi] v. collapse; cave in; crumple

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaɉuɁ] n. ladle

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jasi jaɉuɁ] n. water ladle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áʎò] n. skin; covering

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[álù] n. task

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óò] v. till (with spade); dig; plow

Speaker: Tage Kanno