Apatani English

[aarí] n. saw

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[abú] adj. unlucky; unfortunate; jinxed; ill-fated

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Dialect: var. arbú,

[aci-aʎá] adj. precarious; critical

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[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-baró

[agjú] n. string; cord

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Dialect: syn. aháa

[aɉĩ] n. friend; company; mate

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[aɉu] int. yes; okay

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[akì talã] n. dog of brownish color

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[amí-abã] n. elders

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[api-aláa] n. sap of a tree

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[apì-ara] n. clapping

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[arlǝ] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

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Dialect: var. alvr

[ará] adj. empty; vacant; void

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[asɨ] n. line; long narrow mark

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

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

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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

[bɨlĩ kormo] n. a variety of fruit

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[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

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[bɨjaɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

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Dialect: syn. bwfe’ ant. alvr

[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

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Dialect: syn. cíkù

[dacã pɨcã] n. metallic pot

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[dalĩ] n. path made by a hunter; hunting track

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Dialect: var. dwliñ

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

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[daɲi riilaɁ] n. sunray

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[diiʎã] n. areas of human activity between the forests and the villages

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[doodu] n. drop

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[empjaɁ tijoɁ] n. silkworm pupae

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[ʎego] n. threshold; entrance

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[gasu] v. have verbal quarrel

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[guli] n. bullet

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[harɨ] v. twist; turn

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[heɁ] v. dig (esp. with a tool)

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[hoã] n. back (anatomy)

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Dialect: syn. huañ

[huɁhɨ-huɁxe] v. shake to and fro

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[huli] n. boil; pimple

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[hurĩ] n. protective body armor of cane belt worn around the waist

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[hɨki] n. stillbirth

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[icuce] pron. a small amount; a small number; not many

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[ipaɁ] n. excreta

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

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

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[kumpaɁ] v. throw away (esp. from a container)

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[laɁhe] v. beckon by waving the hand

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[lã] v. move (esp. of head)

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[lãxa] n. coop, as for poultry; shelter, as of a hunter in the tree

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[lo] post. with; by

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

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[lɨsiɁ] n. hay; straw

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Dialect: syn. kusu’

[medǝr] n. purification; purification ritual

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[mɨbjú] v. offend (by doing something)

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[mɨpja-mɨsa] v. scatter; disseminate; sprinkle

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[mɨjaɁ] v. interfere; encroach

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[nɨtãpà] pron. how

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[oha] int. interjection to express surprise

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[oho asiɁ] n. grandchild

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[pacoɁ] n. head of a stream

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[papaɁ] v. cut off or chop off

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[papi] n. wood chip

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[pebeɁ] v. release something (esp. which was under tension)

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[pila xugjuɁ] n. bamboo funnel for distilling pìlaa

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[pilá] n. rice porridge

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[pur] v. pluck (fruits); remove

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[pɨge] n. barbet

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[pɨgĩ] n. vulture

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[pjarmo] n. feathers, usually of leaves, of an arrow; fletching

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[pjaɲó] adj. small, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyarò

[pjàpaɁ] v. destroy and remove a structure

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[ŋɨʎã xɨko hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; centella; gotu kola (Centella asiatica)

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[rɨɁpo] v. tie on something

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Dialect: syn. ra’po

[rɨbó arò] n. the morning after three days

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[rɨme] n. Nepalese alder (Alnus nepalensis)

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[rìi] v. mark; mark a line

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[saɁka] v. contemplate; consider; deliberate on

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[saɁpeɁ] v. optimistic; hopeful; be confident

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Dialect: ant. sa’xw’

[saɁrĩ] n. cough

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[saleɁ] adj. raw, as of wood; standing wood

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[sãgo] n. life

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[sãgo tape] n. a kind of bead

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[sikũ-siri] adj. wrinkled; crinkled

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[subu] n. mithun; bos frontalis

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[taaxè] v. lie on one’s back; lie supine

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[taʎiɁ] n. bruise; contusion

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[tai belã] n. a variety of acacia tree usually used for hedges

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[taɉè] v. believe; regard as true; be convinced by

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[tapeɁ] n. leech

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Dialect: var. twpe’

[tarlũ] adj. barren; childless

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[taxoɁ] v. disagree; disobey

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[teɁ] v. fall (esp. from a standing position)

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[tiilo] v. to pour some liquid down

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[tĩpi] n. dry field; dry cultivation area

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[ɨŋa gɨ] v. be pregnant

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

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[xaataɁ] adj. dirty; stain on the face after crying

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[ɲapaɁ] v. criticize; disapprove

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[ɲaŋo] n. five years

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[ɲemɨɁ] v. break something into pieces by chewing

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[ɲime] n. general term for people living in far north

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[ájò jooʎã] n. late night

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[úì pami] n. goose pimples

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