Apatani English

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

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

[abúu] n. a cylinderical structure

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. aro’

[adĩ ceɁnɨ] n. barber

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎiɁ asiɁ] n. cage for pig

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[aʎí-jasì] n. weather; climate

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[aháa] n. heart

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[anɨ̀-ci] n. step mother

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[apáa] adj. young; immature

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[aroɁ] adj. lucky

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[artaɁ] n. portion; segment; section

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[arè] adj. loose; not fixed tightly or firmly

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[boɁgo] n. dam, for diverting water to irrigation channel

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[deɁ] v. crack; split; rapture

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dĩxuɁ] n. skull

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[dobɨ-takǝr alo] n. Thursday

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[doodu] n. drop

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

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[dɨmɨ nanɨ] n. side dish

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[dɨraada] adv. next year

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[empu] n. a variety of white rice, usually late ripening

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[gartú] adj. small (as a field)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gaarò

[goro] adj. big (of a mouth); loud voice

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Dialect: ant. gozó

[gõ] v. utter; emit

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[haadɨ] n. anger

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[heɁ] v. cut with a knife with the sharp edge away from the user, as in smoothening something

Speaker: Nani Anga

[heɁteɁ] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Nani Anga

[helo] v. pardon; forgive

Speaker: Nani Anga

[huɁsi-rasi] adj. hot and humid

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[hurtaɁ] n. wooden board used for filtering rice water from the cooking pot

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[hɨɉã apĩ] n. food contributed when a newborn baby is born

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɲã] v. be shy

Speaker: Nani Anga

[iɁce] v. keep a night’s gap

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[iŋĩ] n. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

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Speaker: Tage Yassing

[itì] n. a lump of solidified ash

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[ĩpó] v. cross; pass by

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[ɉã] v. become fat; put on weight

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[ɉiimu] n. giddiness

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[kaŋu] v. differentiate; distinguish; tell apart

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

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[koʎoɁ] adj. bent; not round; irregular

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Dialect: syn. kofo’-koco

[kɨdi] n. soil

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[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[laɁbú] v. quickly wash one’s hand

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[laɁhĩ] n. finger nail

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[laɁkuɁ kǝrǝ] n. mole; a small burrowing insectivorous mammal

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[lãpĩ] n. nape of the neck

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[lebu] n. agate bead

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[lo] post. with; by

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[locũ] n. bone marrow

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[lɨmĩ lahĩ] n. blessing; gift (esp. of prosperity, wisdom or knowledge)

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[lɨɨrɨ] n. edge; brim

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. cirw

[maɉi] n. Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miɁti] v. close (the eyes)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mo] v. move one’s face

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mõ] v. chase; drive away; persue

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[mɨ] v. do

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[mɨcì] v. copy; sketch; draw

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[mɨduɁ] v. destroy; damage

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[mɨpiɁ] v. break something fragile like an egg

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[naŋe] n. a unit of measure equivalent to the width of a palm

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nɨɁjuɁ] v. prick; pierce

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[nɨbju] n. textile

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[nɨpu apĩ] n. feast on the occasion of the birth of a newborn baby

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[paaɁ] v. bargain; offer to buy something

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[palɨɁ] n. de-weeding tool

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[papo] adj. incomplete; not full

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[pasǝr] n. extra; remainder

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[piju] n. ashes obtained by burining of certain edible plants which are used for preparing pila by filteration

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pũtu] adj. hump; ridge; bulge; swelling

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Dialect: ant. paka’

[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pìi] v. dry

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[rɨgĩ] n. an element of gwrw (trap)

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[si] dem. this

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[some] n. bamboo shavings used as an element of altar as well as for decoration

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. jompu

[sudu] n. bamboo container

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[sɨcú] n. stag

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Dialect: syn. swcúr

[sɨma] n. corpse

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[sɨpja] n. dhole; Asiatic wild dog

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[sɨttĩ] n. warrior’s shield (esp. of buffalo skin)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨxá] n. an altar

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[sɨɲã] n. this year

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[takuɁ riilaɁ] n. cucumber tendril

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tano-gorgo] n. snail

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. tano-gogo

[tapa] v. hear; get news or information

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tapã-kara alo] n. Tuesday

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[tape hamã] n. vegetable of pumpkin leaves

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tare] n. thorn

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twre

[tasĩ pɨha] n. a variety of bamboo basket used for carrying vegetables or edible aquatic insects

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taxũ] n. a bamboo fish trap

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Dialect: syn. tajvr

[taɲiɁ mɨge] n. tongs to roast grains of corn

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[tutu nanu] n. bumble bee

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[tuu] v. pick up

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[tɨɁ] v. pound, strike

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[une pagɨ] v. get wounded

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[uugũ] n. entrance of a hole

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[ɲacu] n. lip

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[ɲagó] n. snout

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[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

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[ɲimɨ ĩgja] n. space between the hearth and the wall on the right side while entering the house

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