Apatani English

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

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[adã] n. spear

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[aɉĩ arã] n. bosom friend; confidante; alter ego

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[alã] n. neck;hump of an ox; neck of a bottle or a pot

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[amu] n. yield; production; quantity (crop)

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[areɁ] adj. sharp; honed

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[asuɁ] v. sneeze

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[ajóo] n. up; upper

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[bĩpu] adj. round; spherical; plump; rotund

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[buutɨ] n. community; society

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[bɨʎeɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

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Dialect: syn. bwya’ ant. alvr

[cicĩ] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to ward off malevolent spirit)

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Dialect: ant. twgò

[cukǝr] n. sputum

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. takvr

[daɲi áago] n. west

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Dialect: syn. haatw

[dekĩ] n. clay

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

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[dùuha] v. sit down

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[ʎo] v. jump

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[gaɁbɨ] v. hold on to something (as someone’s hand, a stick or a knife)

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[garpɨɁ] n. paddy field in the lower portion

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Dialect: ant. garta’

[haɁ] v. bite off

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[haaru hẽ] v. mourn; grieve

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[harkó] v. bore a hole

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[haspatǝr] n. hospital

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Dialect: or. English

[heɁdú] n. pork intestine along with attached fat; such meat of sacrificed animals traditionally offered to the eldest living sister by the younger ones.

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Dialect: syn. pidú

[heʎu] v. forget

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. aháa ahw’

[hẽɉe] v. trust; faith; confidence; belief

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁɉã] v. wring; twist clothing to dry it.

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[hilĩ] n. clotted blood

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[hɨɉã lɨhaɁ] n. small cane basket used as the container of food contributed during birth of a newborn by the mother’s mother

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[imoɁ pɨlo] n. twelfth lunar month of the year; November-December

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[itú] adj. small; short

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[kaʎã] v. look after; help

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Dialect: syn. kafañ kada

[kagjaɁ] v. see wrongly

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[kahɨ-kaxeɁ] v. look around; be watchful

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[kaɉi] n. a variety of traditional dish

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[kecĩ] v. to know how to write

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[kone abiɁ] pron. everyone

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[kootaɁ] n. buttock

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[laɁdɨ] n. forefinger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and forefinger

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

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Dialect: syn. tale’; twle’

[lopo] n. half day

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Dialect: ant. lobyañ

[luʎe] v. slur one’s speech as when drunk

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[lɨpì] v. dry

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

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[mɨxɨ] v. kill

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[mɨɲaɁ] v. smoothen; polish

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[nalò] v. push down

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Dialect: var. nañlò

[nar] v. borrow

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[no hokɨ] pron. from where

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[nɨri pɨsa] n. a variety of pine; Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. lwri pwsa

[pǝǝ] letter name p the letter representing p in the Apatani alphabet

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[pamjo] n. injury; encumbrance

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Dialect: syn. pamyo-taxo

[papù aʎò] n. egg white

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

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[pajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

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Dialect: syn. paya’-gaaya’

[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

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

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[pɨlo tatu] n. half moon

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[pɨtĩ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

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Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla; qwwla

[pjapjũ] adv. together; in collaboration; in cooperation; jointly

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[pjú] v. beguile; entice; lure

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[pìitã] adj. dry

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Dialect: ant. juja

[ŋoo] v. get lost; get missing; go astray

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[ŋɨi taxũ] n. fish trap

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[ri] v. throw

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Dialect: syn. ku, go

[rilo] v. throw something downwards

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Dialect: ant. rica

[rɨbó aʎĩ] n. the evening after three days

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[sampjá] n. wooden tray used for transporting soil from one place to the other in an agricultural field

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[setu] v. stop by pulling

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[siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siizi’

[soh] v. play; joke; flirt

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[supũ] v. ceremonial smearing of sacrificial animals with rice powder

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[sɨha] n. cane rope

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Dialect: var. saha

[sárce] v. tear something into two parts

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[taɁcè] v. cut into two

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taɁxeɁ] v. lie supine

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[tabè] n. a variety of tree of palm family, the trunk of which is edible

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[tacì] n. crab

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[tapa] v. hear; get news or information

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[tapi] n. a variety of cane

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[tapjò] adj. melodious; nice to hear

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[tihxo] adj. too much sweet or salty

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[tuɁteɁ] n. forehead of a cattle

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[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

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[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[ugù] n. fireplace; hearth

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[uuxaɁ] adj. shallow

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Dialect: syn. aaxa’ ant. ùurañ

[ɨbjoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: syn. obyo’

[ɨci riimi] n. spider

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Dialect: syn. riimi; riñbi

[xelɨɁ] v. force someone to do something

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[xɨpaɁ] v. subtract

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[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[jaciɁ] v. close (a sliding door)

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[japĩ huxo] n. bamboo pin used to puncture the nose

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[jasi anɨ] n. water beetle

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Dialect: syn. cuuzi

[jato pano] n. an aquatic insect

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[juu] v. extend (as hand)

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[ɲaɁtu] n. knife

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[ákojá] pron. something else

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