Apatani English

[aapu kai] n. showy; ostentatious (person)

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[abju] v. move; shake; flutter; budge

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[abjũ-aʎũ] v. finish binding; tie up by tightening the rope after binding something

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[adĩ] v. add; include; incorporate; admix

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[adóo] adj. distant; far; remote

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Dialect: var. wdo

[agoo] adj. external; exterior

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Dialect: ant. ura

[agũ] n. mouth; language

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[aɉu] int. yes; okay

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[akì durgu] n. wooden trough for feeding dogs

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[amĩ-ahĩ] n. gift; present

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[amo-ahe] n. dust (esp. those sticking on the body after working rice)

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[amɨ̀] n. daughter-in-law (term of address)

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[appú] n. flower

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[apjũ] n. bunch; cluster

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[apó] n. body

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[armjã] n. name

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Dialect: var. amyañ

[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

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[asoo] n. party; group; gang; supporter

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[baarã] adj. interior (esp. location of a house)

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[bebuɁ] n. gun

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Dialect: syn. mubu’; bibu’

[bũ] v. crowd

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[ceɁga] adj. argumentative; quarrelsome; belligerant; captious

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[damĩda] n. a variety of Apatani traditional dance, accompanied by bwsí

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[daɲi agjã] n. altar for propitiating Dazi (the Sun God)

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[dãteɁ] v. beat something down; cause to fall by beating

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Dialect: syn. dañlò

[dopu mɨdóo] n. drizzle on a sunny day

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[ʎẽ] v. measure with outstretched hands

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[ʎohe] n. one type; one variety

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[gaɁce] v. break by clutching something

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Dialect: ant. ga’po

[gordu] n. worth; merit; caliber

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[haaɉaɁ] adv. excessive; exhorbitant; too much

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[henci] n. a variety of edible berry

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[hẽɉǝr] v. save up; save for the future

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[hẽpjo] adj. happy, delighted

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

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Dialect: syn. heñxw-miliñ

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

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Dialect: syn. dije’

[humi] pron. whom

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[hurĩ] n. protective body armor of cane belt worn around the waist

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[iʎĩ] n. rectum

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[ixa] n. excreta (esp. of animals)

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[ixò hóonɨ] n. the person who sponsors the dry meat distributed to the participants of penw procession, usually a close relative of the main sponsor of Muruñ

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[ɉilã] n. a kind of traditional shawl (esp.used by the priests)

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[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

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[kabyo] v. yearn; wish to possess something or someone

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[karĩ] v. envy; be jealous

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[katĩ] v. compare; analogize to; equate to

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[katì] v. review; re-examine; re-evaluate

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[koʎũ kolo] n. primordial time

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Dialect: syn. kofuñ

[koló] n. in the olden days

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[kompjutar] n. computer

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Dialect: or. English

[koopɨɁ] v. sprain

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Dialect: var. koopu’

[koopja] n. lower back

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[kutĩ] n. traditional relationship

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

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[laapjó] v. steal (by taking with hands)

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[li lilã] n. cicada (Cicadidae)

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[lĩgja] n. exit; doorway; gateway

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[loci] n. hook; peg

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[luhu-luha] v. provoke; tease

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[lɨguɁ] n. incubating hen

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[miʎa bariɁ] n. whirlwind

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Dialect: syn. ro bari’

[mɨce] n. trough cleaner

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Dialect: syn. afi’ mwge’

[nala pakaɁ] n. drain

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Dialect: syn. nala

[nõ] v. call (esp. an animal)

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[nunuka] pron. your (plural)

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[opis] n. office

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Dialect: or. English

[paɁsi] v. join two ropes together to increase the length

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[paroɁ lɨgo] n. time in the early morning when the cocks crow

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[paju lopa] n. long stick the end of which is covered with glue (payu)

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[pĩcuɁ] n. bottle; elongated liquid container made from the hard hollowed and dried skin of gourd

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[poŋepa] adv. differently

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[pɨbjɨ] adj. cunning, clever, quick

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[pɨdi mɨlũ] v. scare away birds from the paddy fields

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[pɨɉe] n. June; seventh lunar month of the year

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[pɨpĩ] n. bamboo mat for drying paddy or millet

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

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[saʎiɁ] adj. green

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[saiklo] v. bicycle

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[salĩ] v. expel out

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[samĩ rako] n. tortoise

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Dialect: syn. rako; rwko

[sati] n. umbrella

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sãbjũ] v. immerse; submerge; soak in water

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[sẽbiɁ] adj. half-withered

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[taɁ] v. chop (as to split something)

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[taʎí] adv. sarcastic; ironic; sneering

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[tamiɁ] n. fly (Diptera)

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[tano pǝrǝ] n. traditional spinning wheel used to wind yarn into balls

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[tapjaɁ] v. untie

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[tasɨɁ] n. wart

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[tooŋo] n. wool

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[tulí] v. copy; replicate; click (a photo with a camera)

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨɁlo] v. to pull down

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[tɨnĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

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Dialect: var. taniñ

[uu] letter name u the letter representing u in the Apatani alphabet

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[xẽ] v. cut

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[xɨbo aɉĩ] n. ceremonial friend

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[xɨpó] v. cut a tree in the middle of its trunk

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[japĩ] n. nose

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[jo jaxo] n. skewer (for meat)

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[joʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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