Apatani English

[aarìda] n. in the future; in the coming years

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[abíi-tarɨ] n. dress; clothes; garments; attire

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[aceɁ] adj. narrow; tight

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[akì tadǝr] n. tape worm

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

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[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

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Dialect: syn. opa’

[axa-ajá] v. burning sensation

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[bardĩ] n. fate; destiny

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[belũku] pron. friends; audience (term of address)

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[bɨlɨ] adj. loose (as of a tooth or a post)

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[bjakuɁ taleɁ] n. onion

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[bjoopǝr] n. a variety of headgear

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[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

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Dialect: syn. cíkù

[cuuku] adj. upside down

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[dibur] n. mole cricket (Gryllotalpidae)

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[dormaa] n. salary; wage

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[du] v. drip (of water)

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[dɨri-hulo] n. prosperity (in terms of number of children)

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[dù] v. dig; excavate

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[dùu] v. sit

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[dùukũ] v. sit together

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[ẽbĩ] n. husked rice

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[ʎapu puʎe] n. an ordinary customary white shawl

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[ʎiɁcu pɨɲã] n. ceremonial friend who exchange the heads of sacrificed pigs

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[gorxã] n. armpit; underarm

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[gɨmja] n. a variety of spring action trap

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[gɨre] adj. crispy; crunchy

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[haaru hẽ] v. mourn; grieve

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[har] v. wash; bathe

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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

[hẽsǝr] adj. not having any burden or impediment

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[humi] pron. whom

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

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

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[háako] n. entrance

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Dialect: syn. áako

[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

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[ɉiɉi kɨna] adj. bluish

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[kapu] adj. similar; identical

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Dialect: syn. kapu-kalu

[kibo] n. male dog

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[koha xage] num. ninety

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[koku dɨru] adj. bulky; oversized; massive; cumbersome

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[kortú] n. metal capping at the end of the handle of a ceremonial sword (ci’rì)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kõdi appú] n. peach flower

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[kut tarɨ] n. coat

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Dialect: or. English

[kũ] v. pour, esp. grains from one container to other

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[lalĩ] n. footprint

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[lã] v. move (esp. of head)

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[lobjoɁ tare] n. a variety of thorny plant

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Dialect: var. lobyo’ twre

[ma] int. no; exclamation for negative response (esp. to a request or order)

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[miʎĩ] n. tip (of a plant or a tree)

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[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

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[more pai] n. laughing thrush

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[mõpaɁ] v. chase; drive away; persue

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[mɨlù-mɨle] v. disturb

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[mɨpjaɁ] v. undo something; untie

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[mɨxu] v. demarcate; delineate; separate

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[mjɨ-milo] n. married couple

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[nõ] v. call (esp. an animal)

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[nɨ] pron. what

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[nɨka] pron. your; second person singular genitive pronoun

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[objoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: syn. wbyo’; ba’so var. orbyo’

[pacuhe] n. measure worth of a chicken or paddy in a pacu yagw

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[paleɁ] n. excess; extra; surplus; remainder

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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

[poɁtũ] v. squat

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[posa] n. money (esp. coins); paisa

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Dialect: or. Assamese (Paisa)

[pulĩ] v. manufacture; produce

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

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[pɨdi pɨʎiɁ] n. watch hut in the paddy fields

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Dialect: syn. pwdi pwzi’

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

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[pjarò] adj. big, as a plot of land or a grain

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Dialect: ant. pyazó

[rã] v. tie; tether

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[rɨɁ] v. cut into pieces with sawing or slicing movement

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[sado] n. boyfriend; male lover

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Dialect: syn. miya

[sakori] n. job; employment

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[selĩ] v. pull something out

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[sõ] v. move sideways

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[sumù] n. sand

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[taki] n. ginger

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[talɨɁ] v. agree

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[taŋu-aláa] n. honey

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[teɁhi] v. fall down

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[tooko] n. prop; support; post

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[tɨɁɉĩ] v. stretch; lengthen; elongate; make longer

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Dialect: syn. pujiñ

[táa] v. paw; move the hands in a rapid pawing motion, as when digging away soil

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[uurò] adj. big (of hole) ant. uuzó

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[xomu] n. ritual element of an altar

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[xɨka] v. count; innumerate

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[jacu] n. small bamboo container for salt or tobacco

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[japĩ ubúu] n. nostril

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[japjo] n. winnower

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[jara] n. a cane basket used by males for fetching firewood

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[jãko patɨ] n. lion (Panthera lion)

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[jorxã] n. Sichuan pepper

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Dialect: syn. yorxuñ

[ɲiɁxã] num. twenty

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[ɲoxe] n. black panther (Panthera pardus)

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[áagjá] n. entrance; door

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Dialect: var. háagyá

[álù] adj. busy

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[ápì] v. dry

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[úì perũ] n. a variety of bean

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