Apatani English

[acũ] v. hide; conceal; camouflage; cove up

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[ací-búrù] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-baró

[adĩ dĩɉi] n. black hair

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[alĩ] adj. wild; untamed; fierce; savage

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Dialect: ant. amiñ

[anu-abã] n. brothers; sibling

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[arɉĩ] v. stretch (esp. one’s body)

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[aja-kaco] n. quality; condition

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[bardĩ] n. fate; destiny

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[bariɁ] v. get up; stand up syn. guri’

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Dialect: syn. guri’

[belũ] n. friend; audience (term of reference)

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[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[buɁ] v. multiply; proliferate; procreate

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[busuɁ] v. get loose; loosen; slacken

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[bɨɉé bɨɉé] adj. many; in large numbers; profuse; copious

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[bɨpɨɁ tabú] n. a variety of poisonous snake (Pareas monticola)

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[bátè] adj. thick (of mud or liquid)

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[caãcú] n. cooking tripod

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[caãxá-diixá] adj. barren; unproductive

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[ceɁ] v. cut (as with scissor)

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

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Dialect: var. dwliñ

[dɨraa-loɲã] n. in the coming years

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[enda] n. fifth lunar moon; May

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[ereɁ] n. belly; stomach

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Dialect: xañcu.wav

[ẽtɨ] n. paddy harvest

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[gaga] adj. quarrelsome

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[guriɁ] v. get up; stand up

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Dialect: syn. bari’

[gɨɁi] v. fall down (from standing position)

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[harkó] v. bore a hole

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[hiɉeɁ] n. portable bamboo vessel (esp. for carrying liquor)

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Dialect: syn. dije’

[hubju] n. scum; froth

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[hũta-rẽta] adj. stifling; suffocating, of space; congested

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[ipaɁ] n. excreta

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[kapeɁ] v. see through

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[karpjaɁ] v. unroll

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

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[kee] v. rub (like a tobacco in the hand)

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[komã] adj. dark (esp. to describe shades of color)

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[laɁdu] n. a forearm span; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of a forearm

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[laɁko] n. button; an element of babo which is a horizontal stick on the body

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[laɁnɨ] n. thumb

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[laɁpù] n. closed fisted hand

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[laɁrĩ] n. a hoop earring worn by women

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[laakur] v. take back

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

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[leɁ] v. flap (of wing)

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[lobu] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu loci

[loci] n. hook; peg

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[loɲì-lohĩ] n. some days

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[lunù-luna] v. speak in vain

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[lɨciɁ] n. toe

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[lɨsiɁ] n. hay; straw

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Dialect: syn. kusu’

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

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[mãpo] n. roof covering

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[mecú] adj. small; small sized; minor

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[miilò] n. eighth lunar month of the year; July-August

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Dialect: syn. miilò pwlò

[mɨpuɁ] v. cover

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[mɨxaɁ] v. do something wrongly; commit mistake

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[nene] n. bruise; contusion; black and blue mark

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[no hokɨ] pron. from where

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[opis] n. office

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Dialect: or. English

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

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[poŋepa] adv. differently

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[pɨca] adj. foolish, stupid, dumb

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[pɨdĩ] n. male hair knot

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[pɨtì] adj. near

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Dialect: syn. kucì

[párkó] v. drill a hole

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[párpĩ] v. screw close

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[ŋarka] v. smile

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[ŋɨkɨ] pron. mine; first person singular genitive pronoun incorporating a copula function

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[rǝǝ] letter name r the letter representing r in the Apatani alphabet

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[rako] n. tortoise

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Dialect: var. rwko syn. samiñ rako

[roŋe kamjã] adv. always; every time

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[saɁka-saɁka] v. hesitate; be uncertain; be of two minds

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[saɁpĩ saɁko] adj. suffocating; stifling

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[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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Dialect: syn. xaq

[sãbɨ] n. branch, of a tree

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Dialect: syn. sanw aha’

[sĩ] v. feed (esp. liquid food)

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[sorɉĩ] adj. straight

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[sɨlo] n. today

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[sɨsi] n. now

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Dialect: var. sisi

[sɨsida] adv. now

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[sɨtɨ] n. elephant

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[sɨɨ lutɨ] n. grazing ground

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[taɁti] n. cockroach

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[taɁxeɁ] v. lie supine

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[tali jordu] n. a variety of chili

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[Tanɨ miju] n. Apatani people

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[taxɨɁ] n. head louse

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

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[tuuli] n. post; pillar

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[tɨɨ] v. chop, as of cutting down a tree

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[tú] v. kick

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[uskul] n. school

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Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[utɨ] n. camel

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[xõxũ] n. falcon; eagle

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[xɨɨnɨ] n. navel

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[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

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[ɲibjoɁ] v. get free (as from a taboo period)

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[ɲimaɁ] n. war; enemy

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[áakũ] v. come early

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