Apatani English

[adĩ dĩɉi] n. black hair

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

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[akì dula] n. rope used to tie dogs; dog rope

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[anu-abã] n. brothers; sibling

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[aì] adj. heavy

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[bareɁ] v. snap or break, as a thread

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[bãs garɨ] n. bus

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Dialect: or. English

[bejũ] n. tomato; potato

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. byayuñ

[bẽ] v. vocalize (esp. of animals and birds); chirp; warble; sing

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[bɨʎĩ] n. yesterday evening

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[bjo] v. swim

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[bíi] v. cascade; flow (as water)

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[cɨgɨ-caga] adj. lean and thin

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. rwgw-raga

[daɁʎa] v. wait (standing); halt; pause

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[durgu] n. wooden trough

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[dɨɁ] v. have adverse or allergic reaction to something ingested

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[dɨli-dɨlo] adj. grandeur (of scenery); beautiful (of landscape)

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[dùukũ] n. meeting; gathering; assembly; congregation

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[eɁpe] n. pumpkin

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. tápè; ayó twpè

[ʎoɁgã] n. blunt edge of the sword

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[goo] v. demarcate a boundary (esp. with fencing)

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[guli] n. bullet

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[haaɉaɁ] adv. excessive; exhorbitant; too much

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[heŋaɁ] v. be worried about something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hẽxɨ] adj. scarce; meager; in short supply

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: syn. heñxw-miliñ

[hipja] n. front teeth; incisor

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huuto] n. light

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲã] n. shame; shy

Speaker: Nani Anga

[híi] v. chant; intone; incant

Speaker: Nani Anga

[húu] v. whittle; scrape; shave

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉã] v. become fat; put on weight

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kako talo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako yalo; kvlo yalo, kwrv talo

[kamɨ] n. work; task; job; occupation

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kenna] n. a person who castrates pigs

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwmvr

[koɁbu] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ko’bw

[kompjutar] n. computer

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Dialect: or. English

[kopaɁ] v. throw away (from the mouth)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

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[kucì] adj. near

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Dialect: syn. pwtì

[kupjuɁ] v. rinse (esp. a container like a pot)

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Dialect: syn. kupyu’ kusvr

[laŋu] n. neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leɁta] v. spread, as wing

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Dialect: syn. le’tvr

[luɉu-lumjo] adj. manner of speaking

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[lumur] v. speak wrongly; say something by mistake

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[lupaɁ] v. criticize; denounce; condemn; speak ill of someone

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[miɉí] n. orphan

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. mijí atúu

[mipa] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨciɁ] v. hurt the eye

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[mɨlù-mɨle] v. disturb

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[mɨxoɁ] v. peel or scrap, of a wound scab or a bark of a tree

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨjã] n. crest on the head of cock

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[nɨmã] n. eaves and twigs; underbrush

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨmpa] pron. why

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Dialect: var. nwmopa syn. nwtepa

[opaɁ] v. give up; let go

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Dialect: syn. apa’

[pacu jagɨ] n. a small cane basket used as a measure of grain

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[paroɁ pai] n. poultry dropping

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[paroɁ pamí] n. fowl flee

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[paì] n. a variety of bird

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[peɁ] v. tuck something in; insert

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[pee] v. chant producing a characteristic sound “ho ho…”

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[pila] n. a variety of liquid dish obtained by filtering ashes of particular plants

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[poŋe] adj. different

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[puha] v. sink (in water)

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Dialect: ant. puca

[puhaɁ tarpĩ] n. rice root weevil

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[pulu] adj. white

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

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwfi’

[pjà] v. destroy; dismantle

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[pár] v. screw; twist; turn

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[pìi] v. dry

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[ribo] v. throw something across

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[ridaɁ] v. throw at the target

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Dialect: ant. rixa’

[riɲo gjadu] n. rings of bamboo splits that are hoisted with poles in the tombs of priests

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rubi] n. deaf

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[saɁpu] v. be confident; underestimate; underrate; confident

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Dialect: var. sa’po

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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[semo] n. a variety of wild cherry

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Dialect: var. sembo

[sosĩ] n. steel wire rope

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[supũ tarɨ] n. traditional dress for ceremonial occasions

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[sɨlo bɨʎo] n. recently; lately; now a days

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[sɨlɨɁ] n. water container of bamboo

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[sɨrɨ] n. bugle of horn, usually of yak horn

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[taɁmú] n. betel

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[takuɁ kuli] n. cucumber seeds

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[tamĩ] n. Common Indian madder (Rubia cordifolia)

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twmiñ

[taja rara] adj. quite; deserted

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tii] v. pour

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Dialect: syn. to

[tijoɁ] n. insect; worm

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[tooŋo] n. wool

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[tɨɨ] v. throw; toss; fling

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[ɨrɨɨ] n. horn

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Dialect: syn. arww; swrww

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

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[xuiɁ] adj. sour

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[jabĩ] n. a variety of bamboo (Cephalostachium capitatum)

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[jamu mɨʎo] n. flame

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[jamjó] n. floor of split bamboo

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[jasi paɉeɁ] n. water birds

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

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[juu] v. extend (as hand)

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[ɲaɁɲoɁ] adv. slow; sluggish

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Dialect: syn. za’za’

[úì taɲiɁ] n. cobra lily (Arisaema sp.)

Speaker: Tage Kanno