Apatani English

[adĩ] adv. only; exclusively; solely

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[aɉí mɨnɨ] n. farmer

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[akã ɲacú] n. lower lip

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[anɨ̀-aba] n. parent

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[axɨ] n. guts; entrails; viscera

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[axáa] adj. old; aged; elderly

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[axóo] n. head; leader; principal

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[ajóo ɲacù] n. upper lip

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[barmɨ] n. sister

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[boɁgo] n. dam, for diverting water to irrigation channel

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[buuxe] n. a variety of house rat

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[bjaago] n. front verandah of an Apatani house

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[bjoɁdá] adj. bright; brilliant

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[bóo] v. pull; tug; lug; drag; draw

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[cahiɁ] adj. miserly

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[càa] v. take paddy from the granary

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[deŋe] n. hair (of a child)

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[dõ] v. stitch; seam

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[duɁɉo] n. commission paid to a sale agent

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[ʎaʎu] n. an element of sacrificial altar

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[ʎóo] v. collect, esp. firewood

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[gaɁce] v. break by clutching something

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Dialect: ant. ga’po

[gaga] adj. quarrelsome

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[gordu] n. worth; merit; caliber

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[gõdu apĩ] n. feast after settlement of a dispute

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[gõpiɁ] v. rinse mouth

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[haadɨ] n. anger

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[haaso haaso] adv. slowly; sluggishly

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Dialect: syn. haasopa

[hẽbjã] adv. ample; sufficient; adequate

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[hẽɉu-mɨɉu] n. behaviour; conduct; deportment

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[hẽko-hẽpe] adj. confused; perplexed; baffled

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[hẽtĩ] v. trust; faith; confidence; belief

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[hẽtɨ] adj. proud; haughty; boastful

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[hogja takǝr] n. spotted leopard

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[huu] v. light up; brighten

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[hú] v. pound; pummel

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[iʎĩ linɨ̃] n. rectal prolapse

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[ɉaaku-ɉaaʎa] v. stagger; walk unsteadily

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[ɉihiɁ] adj. quiet; silent

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

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[kahiɁ-kaso] v. look after; take care

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[kamè] v. finish; destroy

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[koɁbɨ] n. traditional relationship usually the maternal uncle to whom a portion of the sacrificial animal is offered

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Dialect: syn. ko’bu

[koiɁ] v. a way of putting on a cloth on the body, esp. by the males

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[koló] n. in the olden days

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[korlã] n. thunderbolt; ritual performed to prevent thunderbolt

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[kormu] n. grasshopper var. kurmu

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[kurmu] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kormu

[kɨdi swbi] n. serrow

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[kɨlè] n. tobacco leaves, esp. fresh ones

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Dialect: syn. muku

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

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Dialect: syn. kwrí inw; kwri harnw

[lǝǝ] letter name l the letter representing l in the Apatani alphabet

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[lace] n. a part of bride price which a close relative of the bride is entitled to

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[leɁpì] n. Chinese green onion (Allium fistulosum)

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Dialect: syn. tale’; twle’

[lurɨɁ] v. converse; talk

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[mã] v. finish a building; put roof on a building

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[mɨceɁ] v. interfere; obstruct; impede

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[mɨko-mɨpe] v. disrupt; distract; disturb

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[nẽdĩ] n. upper section of the village

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Dialect: ant. neñkó

[nunuko] pron. at your (place); second person plural pronoun, possessive case

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[nɨtãpà] pron. how

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[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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[papaɁ] v. cut off or chop off

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[papo] adj. incomplete; not full

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[paroɁhe] n. measure worth of a hen or paddy in a paro’ yagw; three persons which was the number of laborers hired with a hen or paro’ yagw full of paddy

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[pajaɁ] v. attack; quarrel

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Dialect: syn. paya’-gaaya’

[pepuɁ tabú] n. bedbug (Cimex lectularius)

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[pila sudu] n. bamboo container for storing pila

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[pimpù] n. tiffin; light meal; small amount of food item (esp. for offering to deities)

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[pombo laso] n. a variety of insect with long limbs

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[pɨrɨ] n. wooden boundary of a hearth

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[pjuɁ] v. sell

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[párkoɁ] v. screw open

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[rapɨ] v. position breadthwise

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Dialect: ant. rasó

[reɁxaɁ] v. injure by scraping with something

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[rixaɁ] v. miss the target while throwing

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Dialect: ant. rida’

[rubĩ] n. earlobe

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Dialect: syn. yarú rubiñ

[rũgjaɁ] adj. crazy; mad; insane; not right in the head

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[rɨlã] adj. euphemism for “heavy” when referred to the weight of a baby

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[sabɨ] n. officer; a dignified person

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[soli] n. a sacrificial share of meat comprising of hind leg

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[subu ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes

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[sɨlì] n. water body

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[sɨtɨ ahi] n. elephant tusk

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[sɨɨ atúu] n. calf

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[sɨxó] n. water channel

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[tabe] n. sugarcane plant

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Dialect: var. twbe

[tacì] n. crab

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[tadoɁ] n. a variety of yellow beads

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Dialect: syn. tado’ tasañ

[tali jordu] n. a variety of chili

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[talo] n. brass plate

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[tariɁ] n. body odor

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[tɨgò] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to propitiate benevolent deities)

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Dialect: ant. ciciñ

[tɨpi-tɨpo] adj. neat; accurate

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[ɨrɨ] v. fumigate rodents in their holes with smoke

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[jorko] n. lower portion of a hill

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Dialect: ant. yordiñ

[ɲar] v. whittle; pare; shave; trim

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

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[óòpaɁ] v. hoe off; dig out

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