Apatani English

[abju-ateɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[abjũ-aʎũ] v. finish binding; tie up by tightening the rope after binding something

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[adĩ] adv. only; exclusively; solely

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[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

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[ahi ácì] n. toothache

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[alaɁ] n. hand

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[appú] n. flower

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[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

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[araɁ] v. tie

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[aja] adj. good; beautiful; virtuous; righteous; suitable; appropriate

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[aì-haaɉuɁ] n. weight

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[beɁlɨ] n. next door neighbor

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[bisǝr abíi] n. Black and white Apatani traditional skirt

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[busã tabú] n. a variety of snake; Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis) var. bwsañ tabú

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Dialect: var. bwsañ tabú

[caabã] v. crush something underground with the feet

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[cãcã] adj. cold (to the touch); chilly; gelid

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[còoʎa] v. limp

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[dẽki] adj. sincere; obedient

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Dialect: ant. dema

[gorɨ] n. watch; clock

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[gjoɁ] v. call; hail

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[gjàa] v. cut, with an inward motion of the blade

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[hamã] n. vegetable

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[harã pijo] n. a variety of children’s traditional game

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

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[hogja gjamu] n. clouded leopard

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[horʎiɁ] v. look obliquely

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huã] n. back (anatomy)

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Dialect: var. hoañ

[humi] pron. whom

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[hɨkaɁ hamã] n. a variety of edible fern

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[háakò] n. entrance, entry, door

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[iŋè] n. a variety of taro

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[ĩrɨɁ] v. meet; meet up with; run into

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[ɉeɁta] adj. flattened

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[ɉirɨ] v. spin; rotate

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[keɁke] adj. saturated; strong, of taste; thick

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[kibo] n. male dog

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[koha xage] num. ninety

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[ku] v. ask for; beg; seek; request; solicit

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[lama] adj. few; some; scant; meager

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Dialect: syn. icu; ice

[lẽ] v. perish en masse, as do the wild bamboo after flowering

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[lẽbo] n. road

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Dialect: var. lembo

[lobjoɁ tɨre] n. a variety of thorny plant

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Dialect: syn. lobyo’ tare

[lokũ] n. one day (term of enumeration)

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[lomè] n. an element of loin loom

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[loɲì-lohĩ] n. some days

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[mepĩ] n. a variety of ritual in which the shaman smears rice powder mixture on the walls

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[milã] n. a variety of weed usually in the paddy fields

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[mixɨ runɨ] n. a person possessed by spirit

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Dialect: syn. mixw ronw

[more mɨjã] n. black kite (Milvus migrans)

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[mɨlì] v. take revenge

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[mɨmeɁ] v. initiate

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[mɨneɁ] v. touch; beat

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[mɨɲò] v. drill (esp. exercise)

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[mjã] v. name

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[o] n. liquor; alcoholic drink; rice or millet beer

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[pabù] adj. swollen; bloated; puffed up

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[paroɁ lopa] n. stick to drive away chickens

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[pike page] n. a variety of glass bead

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[poɁpǝr] n. bamboo split used to make sounds to scare birds away, esp. from agricultural fields

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[puluɁ] v. cover

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[pɨgja] n. great hornbill (Buceros bicornis)

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[pɨri papù] n. water bubble

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[pɨtĩ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

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Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla; qwwla

[párpĩ] v. screw close

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[pìtaɁ] v. slap; spank; hit; strike

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[sabũ] n. soap

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sarkoɁ] v. rip open; tear open

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[sãxɨɁ] adj. retarded growth

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[sẽbiɁ] adj. half-withered

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[soɲó] adj. thin (of objects like a thread)

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Dialect: ant. sorò

[sumù] n. sand

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

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[surúu doɲó] n. traitor; scoundrel

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[sɨro] n. this morning

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[taaró] n. variety of a fig

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[talo] n. brass plate

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[tapa] v. hear; get news or information

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[tar] v. bend; break

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[tarxɨɁ] n. break something with hand

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[tuulu] n. sub-clan

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[tɨɁlo] v. to pull down

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[tɨgeɁ] adj. sticky

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Dialect: syn. age’

[tɨgò] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to propitiate benevolent deities)

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Dialect: ant. ciciñ

[tɨnĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

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Dialect: var. taniñ

[ɨpɨɁ] v. sweep

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[ɨtɨ bɨrɨ] n. bamboo shoot

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Dialect: syn. behé, byapu’, wtw rwbw

[xɨɨnɨ] n. navel

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[jaɁduɁ-jaɁɲuɁ] adj. tattered; ruined; decayed

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[jasi] n. water

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[jo badè] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. xaci; bade

[ɲaɉeɁ] v. to make expression as when one is about to cry

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[ɲaŋo] n. five years

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[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

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[ɲimɨ ĩgja] n. space between the hearth and the wall on the right side while entering the house

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[áade] v. come close; approach

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[ácì] v. have pain; suffer

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[ácì] v. hide; conceal

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[álò] v. dry

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[ápù] v. wrap (into a sphere)

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[úì subu] n. yak (Bos grunniens)

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