Apatani English

[abba-axá] n. man (esp. married man); adult man

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[abba-ci] n. step-father

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[ali lembo] n. paved road

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[alíi] n. descendant; progeny; successor

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[amu] n. yield; production; quantity (crop)

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[anɨ̀] n. mother (term of reference)

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[arĩ] adj. brittle; fragile; breakable

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[ajò lɨpá] n. midnight

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[aì] adj. raw; uncooked

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[bai-bala] adj. haughty; contemptous; disparaging

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[baɉi] n. time

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bĩ] v. uproot (as of weed)

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[bosta] n. jute bag; gunny sack

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[botoli] n. bottle

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Dialect: or. English

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

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Dialect: syn. bwzi’-bwza

[bjuxɨ̃] n. cemetery; burial ground; graveyard

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[bábì] n. swing; dangle

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[ceɁ] v. argue; contend; claim; wrangle

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[coɁmjoɁ] adv. slowly; silently; stealthily

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[daɁreɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

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Dialect: syn. daare’ re’ke

[dĩtaɁ] n. scalp; top portion of head

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[doorò] adj. big (of an animal or vehicle)

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Dialect: ant. dorzó

[dɨxuɁ-tãxuɁ] n. left over eatables

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[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

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[ʎaɁgeɁ] v. catch (fire)

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[ʎaɁka] v. taste (by licking)

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[ʎoɁro] n. sharp edge of the sword

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[haɁ] v. bite off

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[haaso haaso] adv. slowly; sluggishly

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Dialect: syn. haasopa

[heɁi] n. a portion of meat

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[heme] n. oath; promise

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[hiɁka] v. frisk

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[huã alló] n. backbone

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hoañ alló

[huʎu] n. bamboo javelin

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨro hamã] n. a variety of eggplant taken as vegetable

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[imiɁ] n. sitting space around the traditional fireplace

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[ipaɁ tamiɁ] n. green bottle fly (Lucilla sp.)

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[ĩ] v. go

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[ĩgu] v. change direction or destination of going

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[ɉiʎá] n. coarse silk

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[kadú] v. look upwards

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[kami] prep. at the back; after; rear of

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Dialect: syn. kokañ

[kẽte abíi] n. a variety of skirt of black and white color

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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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[komla tɨŋá] n. orange

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[koŋ] num. one

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[kordu] n. way of wearing a cloth

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

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[kõcì] n. dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. goñcì

[kursi] n. chair

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kɨʎĩ kɨloɁ] adj. shining; sparkling; glittering

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[lai] n. torch

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Dialect: or. English (light)

[laŋu] n. neck

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[lãpru] n. a protective armor, usually of cloth covering the neck

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[lopa] n. stick, usually used for beating

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Dialect: syn. pa’zi

[lurɨɁ] v. converse; talk

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[lɨɁ] v. put, esp. grains into a container

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[lɨmĩ alló] n. lateral melleolus bone

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[miɁbeɁ amu] n. eyelash

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Dialect: syn. mi’byo’ amu

[mɨme-mɨɉa] v. complete; finish

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[mɨŋo] v. stop doing something

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[nalò] v. push down

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Dialect: var. nañlò

[nee] v. thresh or knead

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[nelii] n. world of the dead

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Dialect: syn. nelii myokó

[nẽbu] n. home

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[nɨɲi] pron. you two; second person dual pronoun

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[parda] adj. straight; honest; linear; not bent

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[paroɁ lopa] n. stick to drive away chickens

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[patã] n. traditional labour gang

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[pẽbe] n. snow

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Dialect: var. piñbe

[poɁtũla] adv. squatting

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[pɨra] adj. infertile (of egg)

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[pìi] v. dry

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[ŋarnã] adj. funny; hilarious; amusing; comical

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[ŋoɁrò] adj. big (plot of land)

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Dialect: ant. qo’zó

[raa] v. avenge; take revenge for

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[raru hamã] n. a variety of wild vegetable

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[reɁxaɁ] v. injure by scraping with something

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[ruu] v. chase away; drive away

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[rũ] v. be mad; go insane; become crazy

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Dialect: var. roñ

[rúu] v. shed (as trees do of leaves)

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[salũ] n. medium sized cucumber

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[saŋ] n. cot; bed

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[sãti] v. push something tightly as when packing

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[sãtǝr] adj. fully grown

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[sɨʎĩ sɨro] n. now a days; these days

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[sɨlo] n. today

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[takũ jaarǝ] n. cricket (Acheta domesticus)

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[talɨɁ] v. agree

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[tapã] n. algae; moss

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[tasɨɁ] n. wart

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[taxó] adj. bald

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[ɨrã] n. storage space usually built outside the main wall of the house

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[ɨ̃] inter. yes

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[xapo] n. bamboo rack above the fireplace

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[xootu] n. metal skewer for male hair knot

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[jalo] n. shadow; reflection; echo

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[juɁti] v. tighten; tie something tightly

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[ɲaɲiɁ] n. honey

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Dialect: syn. zazo

[árbì] n. portion of pork offered to wife’s eldest living sister

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