Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abrǝ] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

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Dialect: var. abvr

[abjá] n. ladder; stepladder

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Dialect: var. abrv

[adĩ] v. add; include; incorporate; admix

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[alì lɨpĩ] n. instep

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[amĩ] adj. docile; obedient; sumbissive; deferential

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Dialect: ant. aliñ

[arò daʎi] n. forenoon

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[baarã] adj. interior (esp. location of a house)

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[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[ciba] n. small cane bag usually used for carrying tiffin

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ciɲuɁ] n. soot; impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of wood

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[dali] n. dried pulse usually prepared as gravy and taken with rice

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[dãteɁ] v. beat something down; cause to fall by beating

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Dialect: syn. dañlò

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

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[ditĩ] n. cliff; ravine

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[dooli] n. sickness; fever

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[doopɨɁ] v. sleep together with head in same direction

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Dialect: ant. doosi’

[dɨ] v. eat; have a meal; dine

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[dɨpjoɁ] v. eat something to add taste to a meal

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[dɨraada] adv. next year

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[ẽbĩ] n. husked rice

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[gǝǝ] letter name g the letter representing g in the Apatani alphabet

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[guŋa] v. lie down (esp. of quadruplets)

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[gɨɨɲó] adj. small (of a basket)

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Dialect: ant. gwwrò

[haaso haaso] adj. slow; sluggish

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[hai] n. water

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Dialect: syn. yasi

[heʎa] v. have patience; have endurance

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[hiŋ] num. three

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[hɨɉã] n. new born

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[hɨɉã apĩ] n. food contributed when a newborn baby is born

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[hɨɨɲi] dem. those two

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[iɁce] n. a night’s interval

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[iŋĩ] n. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

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[ɉã] v. be trustworthy, as the omen of chickeen liver or egg might be

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[ɉokoɁ] v. opening something by lifting up the lid jopyañ

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[kakĩ] v. show; display; exhibit

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[karpaɁ pɨlò] n. second lunar month of the year; February

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Dialect: syn. pagvr pwlò

[kelaɁ] adv. good in writing; skilled in writing

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[kohaɁ] n. cricket

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[kusuɁ] n. hay; straw

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Dialect: syn. lwsi’

[kǝrǝ talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. karo talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[laɁhe] v. beckon by waving the hand

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[laɁhɨ] n. archer’s wristband traditionally of human hair worn to protect the hand from injury by bow string

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[laɁpi] v. tap on the hand usually by a child to solicit a present

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[laatu] v. catch; seize; intercept

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[lake] v. to cross legs

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[lulũ] v. frighten by speaking; scare; intimidate

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[mã] v. finish a building; put roof on a building

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[meli] v. kill as revenge

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Dialect: var. meñli

[more pai] n. laughing thrush

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[muku sudu] n. smoking pipe

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[mɨɉù-mɨmjo] n. ways of doing; custom

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[mɨlaɁ] adj. skilled in doing something; expert

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[mɨmiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

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Dialect: syn. ami’

[mɨmĩ-mɨhĩ] v. do something without a purpose

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[mɨjaɁ] v. interfere; encroach

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[mja] v. lull; console

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[narpaɁ] v. lend; loan

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[narɨ ahì] n. lemon

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[nãkoɁ] v. push open

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[niti] adj. new

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[nɨ do] pron. when (past tense)

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[nɨpu apĩ] n. feast on the occasion of the birth of a newborn baby

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[oho milobo] n. son

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[paɁ] v. suspend or hang something with a string

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[pakù] n. pigeon

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[parmɨɁ] v. grind in powder

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[parsĩ] n. red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)

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[pẽ] v. mature; come of age; be full-grown

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[pinto] prep. above; over

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[pipaɁ] v. swat something away

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[pĩta ahi] n. gourd

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[pombo rɨko] n. millipede

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[pɨdi mɨlũ nanɨ] n. scarecrow to scare away birds

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[pɨdi pɨɲiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwfi’

[pjàpaɁ] v. destroy and remove a structure

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[párxɨ] v. twist; spin; twirl

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[ŋaɁ] v. tie; bind

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[roɁko] n. a bamboo strip that tightens the beams of a house

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[rɨhĩ] n. a variety of tree

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[rɨxɨ arò] n. the morning after four days

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[saiklo] v. bicycle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[sati] n. umbrella

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[soɁko] n. jaw

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[sosǝr] adj. shrill (of voice); high pitched; thin voice

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Dialect: ant. bañbañ

[sumu] adj. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

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Dialect: syn. jiimú

[surúu doɲó] n. traitor; scoundrel

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[tapũ] n. bat

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[taŋu-aruɁ] n. honeycomb

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[tiɁho] v. make a mark

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[táa] v. paw; move the hands in a rapid pawing motion, as when digging away soil

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[xaarũ] n. a benevolent god that protects a household

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[jalo biɁ] v. echo; resonate; reverberate

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[jamu] n. fire

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[jana] n. a species of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[jo] n. meat

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[ɲiɁtɨ] n. a variety of maize

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[ádù] v. get pricked (by a thorn)

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[ájò jooʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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