Apatani English

[abjá] n. ladder; stepladder

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Dialect: var. abrv

[ageɁ] n. quiver

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[aháa pìitã] n. thirst

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[aɉã-bɨɲǝ] adj. fragile; soft; tender

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[ali lembo] n. paved road

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

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Dialect: syn. opa’

[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

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[ajóo ɲacù] n. upper lip

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[barmɨ] n. sister

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

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

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[biti] n. craft; activity involving skills in cane and bamboo craft

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[bɨleɁ] adj. slippery; oily; greasy; slimy

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Dialect: syn. tule’

[bɨjaɁ] adj. soft; spongy; pliable

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Dialect: syn. bwfe’ ant. alvr

[bjoopǝr] n. a variety of headgear

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[daɲi riilaɁ] n. sunray

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[dãxo] n. long sharp stick

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[deʎã-rɨcã] n. bell used by priest during rituals

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[dilĩ] n. hair bun; tresses of bundled hair

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[diɁju] n. marsh; swamp

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[do] v. be; exist; lie

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Dialect: ant. zima

[du] v. drip (of water)

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

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Dialect: var. daliñ

[dɨrɨ] adj. late; delayed

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[eɁdaɁ] v. shoot at target

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Dialect: ant. e’xa’

[ʎagja] adj. usual; normal; habitual; customary

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[gikoɁ] v. open (a hinged door)

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Dialect: ant. gipiñ syn. gipyañ

[gɨrɨ] n. spring action noose trap

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[haataɁ] n. front; fore; foreground; anterior

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[haaja] adj. hungry; famished; starving

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[hai] n. water

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Dialect: syn. yasi

[haɉǝr] num. thousand

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[haspatǝr] n. hospital

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Dialect: or. English

[hẽɉu] n. attitude; way of thinking

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[hẽɉũ] n. comfort; ease; luxury; opulence

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[hiɁ] v. whip; lash; flog

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[hiŋ] num. three

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[huã ácì] n. backache; back pain

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[hɨɉã] n. new born

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[hùuʎiɁ] n. fat; oil

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[iɲa] int. interjection to express repugnance

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Dialect: syn. ija

[ɉihiɁ] adj. quiet; silent

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[kageɁ] v. look at

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[kanu] num. seven

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[katú] v. watch from a distance

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[kiluɁ] n. a small compartment in the granary usually for storng millet or agricultural implements

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[kopɨ] adj. place or lie breadthwise; breadthwise position

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Dialect: ant. koso

[koɲã] n. the year before last; two years ago

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[kurmu] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kormu

[kɨdi paju] n. glue obtained from a variety of tuber

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[lodɨ] adj. short, of day

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[lɨ] v. plant

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[lɨɁ] v. shed, as leaves do from the trees

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[lɨrɨ lorɨɁ] n. joint

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Dialect: syn. lorw’

[maɁlã] n. many; numerous; abundant

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[me] v. search; look for; seek; check

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[mɨho] v. offend (by doing something)

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[mɨkoɁ] v. open

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[mɨrɨɁ] v. assist somebody in doing something

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[mjɨ-oho] n. family; wife and children

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[nane] pron. your mother

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Dialect: syn. nama

[nɨmpa] pron. why

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Dialect: var. nwmopa syn. nwtepa

[orbjoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: var. obyo’ syn. ba’so, wbyo’

[pǝǝ] letter name p the letter representing p in the Apatani alphabet

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[padĩ sɨko] n. confluence of two or more streams

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[pahe] v. pledge a property to the creditor as a security

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[papù paxu] n. egg shell

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[pata-pabja] adj. spotted

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[patã áttò] n. a member of the labour gang in whose field it works on the day

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[peŋu] n. a variety of bird; great barbet (Megalaima virens)

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[piro] n. swampy land; marshy area

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[pɨɁpaɁ] v. sweep away

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[pɨlo alo] n. Monday

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[pjar] v. fold; braid

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[pjã] v. swell, as of wound

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Dialect: syn. gòobu

[pjo] v. catch by pinching with a pincer

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[párkó] v. drill a hole

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[ratĩ] v. answer appropriately; silence a query

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[ripaɁ] v. throw something away

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[saʎó] n. a variety of tree; Fragrant Himalayan Champaka (Michelia champaca)

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[sapì] adj. flattened

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[saró] n. firewood of bamboo

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[sãcí] n. a variety of fruit

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Dialect: syn. dwrañ sañxañ

[subu ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes

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[surúu] adj. deceptive; crafty; treacherous

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[sɨtɨ] n. elephant

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[taɁɲó] adj. small (of flat objects); thin; narrow

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

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[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

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[talɨ́ mjoko] n. land of the dead who meet with unnatural death

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[tamjo] n. a variety of tree

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[taxũ] n. a bamboo fish trap

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Dialect: syn. tajvr

[tõsǝr] v. advise; suggest; counsel; guide

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[umjú] adj. pointed (as of a tip)

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[xaãcuɁ] n. can container with a lid (esp. to store rice)

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[xɨɨnɨ] n. navel

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[japĩ tɨpe] n. tattoo on the nose

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[ámì] n. tail

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

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[ásù-ale] adj. lazy

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