Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abba-ci] n. step-father

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[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[ací-baró] n. brothers; siblings

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Dialect: var. ací-búrù

[adóo] adj. distant; far; remote

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Dialect: var. wdo

[aháa ahɨɁ] v. forget; fail to remember

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[aɉuɁ] n. weak person

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[alíi] n. descendant; progeny; successor

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[amiɁ-agũ] n. design; motif; pattern (esp.in embroidery)

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[arcì] v. roll

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[arná] v. choke

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[baltiŋ] n. bucket

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[barɲo] adj. small flat object

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Dialect: ant. baarò var. bazo

[batĩ] n. hedge; cattle barricade designed for humans to climb over it

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[be] v. fasten or tie

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

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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

[bisǝr abíi] n. Black and white Apatani traditional skirt

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[bijã] n. girdle (esp. of female used to hold the skirt)

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[bɨlu-bɨlaɁ] adv. hurriedly; suddenly

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[bɨɲã] n. last year

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[bjoɁhú] v. brighten; light up; illuminate

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[bíiɁ] v. compensate; make reparation; make amends

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[ciɁpi] n. wooden door frame

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[daarò] adj. big step

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Dialect: ant. daazó

[dekĩ pɨcã] n. clay pot

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[doŋeɁ] adj. sunny; cloudless

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Dialect: ant. domiñ

[ʎagja] adj. usual; normal; habitual; customary

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[ʎijoɁ] n. portion of meat which is the extra fat covering of the stomach

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[gaambɨ] n. border; brim; boundary

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[gorbã] n. shoulder

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[goɲó] adj. small (of a mouth); low voice

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Dialect: ant. gorò

[gɨrɨ] n. spring action noose trap

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[gòo] v. swell (as a wound); bloat; bulge

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Dialect: syn. pyañ

[haaru] n. mourning; grief

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[haʎã] adj. flat; plain

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Dialect: syn. haapa

[haʎã gijã] n. cabbage

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[haʎã hamã] n. Redflower Ragleaf; Fireweed (Crassocephalum crepidioides)

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Dialect: syn. genda hamañ

[heeʎiɁ] adj. cool, in a pleasant way

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Dialect: syn. habuñ

[hẽdǝr] v. conscious; understand; figure out

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[iŋĩ] n. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

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[ɉoɁ] v. cut, lengthwise with a blade

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[ɉomɨɁ] n. cloud

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[kaʎã́] adj. equal; same

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[kahɨ-kaxeɁ] v. look around; be watchful

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[kalaɁ] v. recognize; know

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Dialect: syn. kaciñ

[kamra] n. room

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[kamɨ] n. work; task; job; occupation

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[koʎũ] n. primordial time

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Dialect: syn. kofuñ kolo

[koojo] n. the night before the last

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[kupjuɁ kusǝr] v. rinse, esp. a container like a pot

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Dialect: syn. kupyu’

[kóò] n. son

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[laɁrã] n. a hoop earing worn by priests on ceremonial occasions

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

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[leɁ] v. flap (of wing)

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[leŋò aɉi] n. rice field near the village

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Dialect: ant. jabyò aji

[lobjoɁ tare] n. a variety of thorny plant

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Dialect: var. lobyo’ twre

[lulù-lugo] v. disturb by speaking

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Dialect: syn. lulù

[luxè] v. speak rudely; speak brusquely

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[milo] n. male

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Dialect: ant. bwnw

[mɨbo] v. help (in doing some work); assist; support

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[mɨdiko] adv. appropriately; suitably; relevantly

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[mɨmjaɁ] v. smudge; smear

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[mɨpaɁ] v. remove; spend

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[mɨrɨɁ] v. assist somebody in doing something

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[mɨsɨ] n. task; things to do

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[mɨtĩ] v. obstruct

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[nelii] n. world of the dead

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Dialect: syn. nelii myokó

[paʎa-paca] adj. unsteady; staggering

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[pano] v. sting

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[paroɁ lopa] n. stick to drive away chickens

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[pĩtú nanɨ] n. an element of loin loom

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[potũ] n. witness in a business transaction

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[pɨrɨ́] n. stinging nettle

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[pɨsa saamã] n. pine needle

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[pɨta sihɁ] n. puddle or pond where birds gather to drink water

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

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[ŋunu] pron. we; first person plural pronoun

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[ŋur] v. move something heavy using lever

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[reɁ] v. shave; scrape

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[rubi] n. deaf

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[rugu] v. take care of security; guard

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[sadi] n. plantation (esp. of pine); pine estate

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Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; salw

[sadǝr] n. conical shaped bamboo filter

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Dialect: syn. o sadvr

[subu sa] n. cane rope for mithuns

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[subu ɲaaɲi] n. lichen around bamboo nodes

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[taɁmò] n. a variety of tree; Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis/Rhus semialata)

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[tagjá] n. wood wasp

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[tali jordu] n. a variety of chili

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[tarĩ] n. woven cane ring used as kneelet

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[tãdɨɁ] v. get poisoned by drinking

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[tãsǝr patã] n. labour gang engaged in miscellaneous works in the agricultural fields

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[tɨrɨ huuʎiɁ] n. a variety of green grasshopper

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[jaruɁ] n. a variety of plant

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[jasi paɉeɁ] n. water birds

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[jatã] n. snacks; rice flour

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[ácì] n. pain; suffering

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[árù] n. weed; unwanted plant in an cultivated field

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[ájò jooʎã lɨpa] n. midnight

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[úì ácì] v. dive inside water

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