Apatani English

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aháa ahɨɁ] v. forget; fail to remember

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì durgu] n. wooden trough for feeding dogs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

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[amiɁ miɁtĩ] n. eyelid

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amo] n. remaining grains of unhusked rice grains among husked ones

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arkó] v. latch; fasten; bolt; lock

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arlǝ] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. alvr

[atĩ] v. block; choke; plug; obstruct; close

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. arañ

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[baró] n. brother

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[beɁ] v. spring, something under tension; leap (as frogs do)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[beɁri] n. decorative border; edge

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bɨʎo] n. yesterday

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[bɨɲiɁ-bɨɲa] adj. silky; delicate; soft

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. bwza-bwza

[bjoopǝr] n. a variety of headgear

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[doxo-acã] n. corner in the house reserved for ritual altars

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dɨsɨ] n. edible; food

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[elì] n. paddy seed; paddy preserved for next season’s sowing

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[embĩ] n. uncooked, husked rice

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[empjã sudu] n. bamboo container to store grains for poultry

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[gehe] v. yawn

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[genɨ nã] v. blame someone else for one’ own mistake

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gõpɨ] n. chin

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[gjambo] n. war; battle; dispute

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. caambyó

[gjooɁ] n. noose trap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haalo] n. August-September; ninth month of lunar year

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hadɨ] v. be angry

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨsã] n. grass; fodder

Speaker: Nani Anga

[háatɨ] adj. hopeful; confident; optimistic

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hárgɨ] v. run away; escape; flee

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. hágw

[iɁrũ] v. sleep in somebody else’s house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[icã] n. dysentery; ailment with blood stained stool

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[iɲa] int. interjection to express repugnance

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. ija

[ĩɉó-mɨɉó] n. wage; earning

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kapũ] adj. strange; bizzare

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[karpaɁ pɨlò] n. second lunar month of the year; February

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. pagvr pwlò

[keele] n. an agricultural implement of short pointed bamboo chisel used for weeding

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kẽte puʎe] n. a variety of shawl usually made by stitching togethe discarded clothes

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[kone] num. one

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[kooroɁ] n. a traditional relationship on the maternal side whom a portion of meat from sacrificial animal is offered

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[kõci patã] n. labour gang that works early in the morning

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[kǝ] int. okay; yes; affirmative interjection

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kɨpaɁ] n. banana

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: syn. kwpa’ ahì

[laɁca] n. handicap of the hand; disability of the hand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laŋe] num. hundred

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[lar] v. challenge; bet

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

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[lɨciɁ-poɁdo] n. accident; mishap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lɨnɨ] n. big toe

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[male] n. luggage; load; baggage

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[maló] adj. big; huge; renowned

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[miʎĩ] n. tip (of a plant or a tree)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[muɁ] v. rut (animals)

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[muku kuli] n. seed of tobacco plant

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨ] v. do

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[mɨŋu-mɨre] v. discriminate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nama] pron. your mother

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nane

[nẽdú] n. sesame (Sesamum indicum)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. niñdú

[nunuko] pron. at your (place); second person plural pronoun, possessive case

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɉi] n. indigo (colour)

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[nɨɨ] v. instigate; provoke

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pahĩ] n. liver

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[pakaɁ] adj. depression; dent; trough

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. puñtu

[para] v. crawl in

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Dialect: ant. parliñ

[perũ] n. bean

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[pilá] n. rice porridge

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[pĩbú] adj. individualistic; personal

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Dialect: ant. búutw

[poli] n. seed

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[põsaɁ] adj. distinct; different

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[pũko] n. intermediate position; middle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. peñko

[pɨdi mɨlũ nanɨ] n. scarecrow to scare away birds

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjaɁse] v. wash by splashing water

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pjarò] adj. big, as a plot of land or a grain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. pyazó

[pjú] v. beguile; entice; lure

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ŋɨɲì] pron. we two; first person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sadi] n. plantation (esp. of pine); pine estate

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; salw

[saŋ] n. cot; bed

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãda] n. long wooden post that support a traditional house on both sides

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sor] v. complain; protest

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[suɁ] v. probe; explore; investigate

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taɁ] v. chop (as to split something)

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tago alì] n. a wooden tricycle used a children’s toy the wheels of which are of tagó tree trunk

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[talo pɨɲu] n. spoon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

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[tasã-tajĩ] n. beads

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[tero] n. chili

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[tõ] v. offer; give

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[tusù] v. break a relationship

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[tɨp pɨpɨ] n. Himalayan cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ude] n. house

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[ɨ̃co] int. expression of agreement

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[xǝǝ] letter name x the letter representing x in the Apatani alphabet

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[jaaɉeɁ] adj. garrulous (of a person)

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[ɲemɨɁ] v. break something into pieces by chewing

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ábì] v. swing; sway; oscillate; move back and forth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[árè] v. wash (esp. interior of a pot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno