Apatani English

[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

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[akì-paroɁ] n. domestic animals

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[alĩ] v. make something round; wind a quantity of yarn or thread into a ball (esp. by using a kind of spinning wheel)

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[alì lɨpjo] n. sole

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[ane] n. mother (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. ama

[armĩ] adj. ripe

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Dialect: var. amiñ

[asǝr] n. splinter (of wood)

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[asó] n. length

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[bakoɁ] n. box

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[beɁtũ] v. shrink; contract; become smaller

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[biɉe ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes syn. bije yatań, subu zaazi

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Dialect: syn. bije yatań, subu zaazi

[buulì] n. variety of rats seen after bamboo flowering in large numbers

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[bjarbó] v. jump across

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[bìi] v. move to and fro; swing; oscillate

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[cahiɁ] adj. miserly

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[coɁmjoɁ] adv. slowly; silently; stealthily

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[dormaa] n. salary; wage

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[dorɲó] adj. small (of an animal or a vehicle)

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Dialect: ant. doorò

[dɨbũ] n. greedy; gluttonous

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[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl

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[ʎóo] v. collect, esp. firewood

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[gikoɁ] v. open (a hinged door)

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Dialect: ant. gipiñ syn. gipyañ

[go] v. throw

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Dialect: syn. ri; ku

[golu] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

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

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[helo] v. pardon; forgive

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[heló] v. let down; be disappointed

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[hiluɁ] adj. smooth; glossy; polished

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[hubur] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

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Dialect: var. hurbu

[híhɁ] n. dried fermented bamboo shoot

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[húì] v. fall

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[ipoɁ poɁli] n. yeast used for preparation of new batches of yeasts

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[ɉuɲa] adj. wet

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Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juja

[ɉí] v. roll; spin; rotate; turn round and round

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[kakĩ] v. show; display; exhibit

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[kako jalo] n. mirror

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Dialect: syn. kvrv talo; kako talo; kvlo talo, kwrv talo

[keená] n. black necked crane (Grus nigricollis)

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Dialect: var. kenda

[kera pɨcã] n. cauldron

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kooʎoɁ] adj. not rounded; uneven

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Dialect: ant. koofañ

[koŋ koɲã] n. four years back

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[kɨɉǝ] int. interjection of calling “lets go”

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[kɨlĩ] n. back; rear

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[kɨri duɁnɨ] n. businessman; broker; agent; middleman

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Dialect: syn. kwrí inw; kwri harnw

[leŋò] n. lawn; front yard; space in the village

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[lĩ] v. exit; go out

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[loɲì-lohĩ] n. some days

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[mecú] adj. small; small sized; minor

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[mepi hamã] n. a variety of vegetable; plantain (Plantago erosa)

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Dialect: syn. mepi

[miimaɁ] n. a variety of hebaceous plant whose slender leaves are used to tie bundles of paddy or millet plant (Miscanthus sinensis)

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[mura] n. seat

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[mɨbjú] v. offend (by doing something)

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[mɨceɁ] v. interfere; obstruct; impede

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[mɨcĩ] v. know how to do

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[mɨxè] v. do something forcefully

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[nane] pron. your mother

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Dialect: syn. nama

[nar] v. borrow

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[nẽdú] n. sesame (Sesamum indicum)

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Dialect: var. niñdú

[nunupa] pron. for you (plural); second person plural pronoun, purpostive case

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[nɨre puʎe] n. gunny bag

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[paɁ] v. suspend or hang something with a string

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[paduɁ] v. hop to express extremes of emotions

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[paʎa] adj. leaning; inclined; bent

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Dialect: syn. pafo’

[pano] v. sting

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[paroɁ patǝr] n. cage for chicken

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[patuɁ] n. prison; jail

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[paxu ruduɁ] adj. rough; scaly

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[peca sanɨ] n. tree of wild pear (Pyrus sp.)

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[pidú] n. pork intestine along with attached fat; such meat of sacrificed animals traditionally offered to the eldest living sister by the younger ones.

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Dialect: syn. he’dú

[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

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[pixu] n. spinning node

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[pɨnã] n. rice husk

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Dialect: syn. empw

[pjokoɁ] v. open, of eye

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[ŋarpa] v. laugh at; make fun of; ridicule

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[raɁ] v. bind; strap; fasten

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[rõ] v. break relationship; avoid (esp. a relation); antipathy; abhorrence

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[rubĩ] n. earlobe

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Dialect: syn. yarú rubiñ

[ríi] n. drool

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[sǝǝ] letter name s the letter representing s in the Apatani alphabet

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[samĩ rako] n. tortoise

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Dialect: syn. rako; rwko

[sarse] n. millet

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[sãtaɁ] n. wooden plank

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[sãxó] n. smoke-dried meat

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[sɨro] n. this morning

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[sɨtiɁ] n. letter

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[taɁmopa] adv. strongly; bravely

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

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[tasi] n. wall

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Dialect: var. tarsi

[tã] v. drink; smoke

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[toɁpjo] v. descend first

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

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[xomjú] adj. tapering

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[xɨɨnɨ̃] adj. cooked

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[xɨxu-xɨce] v. discriminate; differentiate

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[jaanɨ] adj. rotten

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[jorsã] n. green chili

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[ɲoo] letter name z ɲoo the letter representing ɲ in the Apatani alphabet

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[ɲapaɁ] v. criticize; disapprove

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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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[áttò] n. owner ant. mii

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[úì subu] n. yak (Bos grunniens)

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