Apatani English

[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[agoo] n. outside

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[aĩ] n. gold

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

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[alɨ́] n. a part of upper arm of an animal; lineage to whom a part of upper arm of sacrificed animal is offered

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

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Dialect: ant. aliñ

[ane] n. mother (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. ama

[apó xẽ] v. toil; work hard; engage in physical labor

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[aroɁ] adj. lucky

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[asĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

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[asuɁ-asaɁ] n. disgrace; shame

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[auɁ gɨgjá] n. waist

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[barxoɁ] v. straddle; sit straddling a seat; bestride

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[beɁɉi] n. injection

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bɨdí] adj. trick; tactic; strategy

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bjako] n. common term for berries

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[bjuxɨ̃] n. cemetery; burial ground; graveyard

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[car] v. boil

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[caɲó] adj. small (of pot)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. cáarò

[cudu-cubo] adj. imprudent; reckless

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[daareɁ reɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. da’re’ke

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

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Dialect: var. dwliñ

[danɨ] n. heavy wooden hammer

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[deʎã rɨci] n. bell

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Dialect: syn. defañ rwcañ

[dulu] n. the system of giving another person the responsibility of looking after a cattle

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[dur] v. dig and push (for example with the snout of a pig)

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Dialect: var. dór

[dɨlɨ kɨce] n. bamboo glass for measuring rice

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[gipĩ] v. close (a hinged door)

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Dialect: ant. giko’ syn. gitiñ

[go] v. throw

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. ri; ku

[gjo] v. hurt or kill accidentally

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[gjoɁ] v. prepare cane rope; smoothen cane rope

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[gjáa] v. spread (esp. seeds or sand by throwing)

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[góò] v. hug; embrace; cuddle

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[hadɨ] v. be angry

Speaker: Nani Anga

[harù] n. lung

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[hã] v. investigate; make enquiries; probe; enquire

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huxo] n. handle (esp. of agricultural implements like spade or axe)

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨmi] pron. that; third person accusative pronoun

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[hɨɲã] v. be shy

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[ixa] n. excreta (esp. of animals)

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[ɉaa] v. sway (as a drunken person do); stagger

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[ɉabjò aɉi] n. fields located far away from the villages

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[ɉĩ] v. tie

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[kaco-tanɨɁ] n. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

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[kahò] v. take note of; mark something

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[kahó] v. get punishment for a sin; retribution

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[kamo] adj. dark

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[kaxaɁ] v. disapprove something; dislike; reject

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[kelaɁ] n. good writer; one who writes well

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[kẽ] v. injure; cause pain or discomfort

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[koló] n. in the olden days

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[kooʎã] adj. round

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Dialect: ant. koofo’

[koŋ koɲã] n. four years back

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[korò] n. the morning before the last

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[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

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[luutɨ] n. grazing ground; pasture; meadow

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[lɨkè] v. cross legs

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[lɨma] n. root

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[muɁ] v. brew (beer)

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[mɨʎo] n. flame

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[mɨɉa] v. finish doing something

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[mɨɉi] n. a variety of tree having a very bitter taste

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[nãkoɁ] v. push open

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[nãpaɁ] v. push something away

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[nẽbu] n. a house away from the main street

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Dialect: var. niñbu ant. neñto

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

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[pabjó] n. quarrel; dispute

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[pacuhe] n. measure worth of a chicken or paddy in a pacu yagw

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[paduɁ] v. damage by cutting

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[paʎa] adj. leaning; inclined; bent

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Dialect: syn. pafo’

[pageɁ] v. light a fire; set fire; ignite

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[palã tɨŋá] n. plum

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Dialect: or. English

[pamjo] n. injury; encumbrance

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Dialect: syn. pamyo-taxo

[pataɁ ude] n. house with roof of bamboo split

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[pepuɁ] n. mat; reed used for making mats (Phragmites karka)

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[pẽko] n. intermediate position; middle

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Dialect: syn. puñko

[pilã] adj. yellow

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[ŋarpa] v. laugh at; make fun of; ridicule

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[sãxã] n. rubber

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[silaɁ] v. stitch or sew (esp. with sewing machine)

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[soli] n. a sacrificial share of meat comprising of hind leg

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[sɨlo-holo] adv. hurriedly; excitedly

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[sɨro] n. this morning

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[sɨɨ hɨbo] n. ox

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[taɁcè] v. cut into two

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[taciɁ] n. wood-boring insect attacking bamboo or softwood

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[taja rara] adj. quite; deserted

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[tor] v. unfurl (of flag); spread

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[tulí] v. copy; replicate; click (a photo with a camera)

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨpjaɁ tarɨ] n. a variety of cotton top

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[tɨrɨ huuʎiɁ] n. a variety of green grasshopper

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[ude] n. house

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[uuxaɁ] adj. shallow

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Dialect: syn. aaxa’ ant. ùurañ

[xeda harnɨ] n. special messenger, usually female, who informs about a ritual like Subu or Muruñ to the traditional friends in other villages

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[xɨlã] n. a variety of red-brown squirrel

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[jaabũ] adj. dull (of a person)

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[jaɉi-jalo] n. soul

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[jata] adj. color pattern of she-mithun, described as overall black with a white spots on either side

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[ácì] v. hide; conceal

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[álò] v. dry

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