Apatani English

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[aʎĩ daʎi] n. afternoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aháa] n. string; cord

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. agyú

[anɨ] n. leaf

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yanw

[apiɁ] v. feed (esp. fowls)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apǝr] n. gallbladder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[attuɁ] v. close or block (esp. a hollow container)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aɲã] n. year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baabuɁ] adj. healthy (esp. of child); pampered

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjaɁ] v. hesitate; waver; vacillate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[còo] v. bounce (as a ball); hop on one foot (of a human)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[daaraɁ] adj. stiff (as of a cliff)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[darɨɁpa] adv. cleanly; purely; clearly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dema] adj. naughty; disobedient

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. deñkí

[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doomu] adj. cloudy; overcast

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨri-hulo] n. prosperity (in terms of number of children)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[emo] n. paddy; unhusked rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: var. imo

[ʎiɁla] n. the legs of the pigs sacrificed during Myoko which are usually presented to the cousins

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. giyañ hamañ

[goɲó] adj. small (of a mouth); low voice

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gorò

[guɁ] v. turn or turn oneself over (esp. in lying position)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[guriɁ] v. get up; stand up

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bari’

[gɨɨrò] adj. big (of a basket)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gwwzó

[gjũtã] n. negotiator; go between in a marriage

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haapa] adj. flat; plain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. haafañ, zipa

[haatĩ] n. node (as of bamboo)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haʎã bjajũ] n. tomato

Speaker: Nani Anga

[harlã] n. thigh

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heló] v. let down; be disappointed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽdi] n. thoughtful man; a gentleman; a good person

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽko-hẽpe] adj. confused; perplexed; baffled

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiicí] v. grimace; make face (usually in pain)

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. hiizi’

[ɉihĩ] n. rag; scrap of cloth; dirty linen

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉirɨ-ɉixe] v. rotate to and fro

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉuɉa] adj. wet

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juza

[kapjó] adj. first

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karda-bjaɲi alo] n. Friday

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kokã] adj. late; lower

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kami

[kõtɨ] part. only

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kulu] n. banana tree

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kulu sanw

[kuupaɁ] v. throw away

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨbjoɁ] v. flash; sparkle

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[lobu loci] n. skeleton

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. lobu

[luxɨ̃-lumɨ̃] v. speak in a confused way; speak nervously

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mǝǝ] letter name m the letter representing m in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[malo-kalo] adv. please; pray

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[medǝr agjã] n. altar for purification ritual

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[midĩ] n. nursery for paddy; seed bed

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[Misã] n. common term for non-Apatani tribes like Nyishis, Tagins, Galos, etc.

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨʎã] v. correct; rectify; amend

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mja] v. collect contributions; collect

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xa

[mò aɲi] pron. they (two); third person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[paɉeɁ] n. duck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[parɨɁ] n. Khaleej pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[patǝr] n. cage

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pe] v. switch; lever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[peɁkó] adj. smart, of a person; strong, of taste

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pẽbe] n. snow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. piñbe

[pilá aláa] n. rice water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[Pinɨ] n. Creator

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pũko] n. intermediate position; middle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. peñko

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pwdi pwfi’

[pɨta atúu] n. chicks of birds

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjo] v. open (as eye)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rahɨ] v. rotate something

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ro bariɁ] n. whirlwind

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mifa bari’

[roɁ] v. snatch; seize

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ru] v. sneak; plot; machinate; conspire

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sipũ] n. recently; these days

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sosĩ] n. steel wire rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨtiɁ] n. letter

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁmú] n. betel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[talɨ́] n. unnatural death

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapa] v. hear; get news or information

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapã] n. algae; moss

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tarpĩ] n. maggots

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɲe] n. pus

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tarze

[tusiɁ-tusiɁ] adv. one after the other

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tuuma] adj. courageous; daring

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tɨɁɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pujiñ

[tɨpjaɁ] n. a necklace with a few beads on a black thread used as a talisman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[uro] adv. forcefully; strongly

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xaarũ agjã] n. altars for the xaruñ god

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xapaɁ] v. scrape something off

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xãxã] adv. firmly; fervently; forcefully

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xañxañ dwrañ

[xãxã-dɨrã] adv. firmly; fervently; forcefully

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xañxañ

[xɨɁkoɁ] v. unbolt

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨdĩ] v. add

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japĩ ubúu] n. nostril

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[japĩ ái] n. epistaxis; bleeding from the nose

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ácì] v. have pain; suffer

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[óòpaɁ] v. hoe off; dig out

Speaker: Tage Kanno