Apatani English

[adú] n. noise; sound

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Dialect: ant. kúcì

[aɉóo] n. fare; wage

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[akɨ] int. interjection to express pain

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[anɨɁ] n. hurry; haste; urgent

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[anɨ̀-aba] n. parent

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[apur] prep. among; midst

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[arcì] v. roll

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[arò-apĩ] n. meal in the morning; breakfast

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[attuɁ nanɨ] n. lid used for closing a container

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[axɨ har] v. have loose motion

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Dialect: syn. axw sáa

[bakoɁ] n. box

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bar] v. carry something with a horizontal bar or a rod

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[barxoɁ] v. straddle; sit straddling a seat; bestride

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[boʎo] adj. thin (of a flat object) ant. byañkvr

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Dialect: ant. byañkvr

[ciɁpɨ] n. frame of the bamboo sliding door

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[daruu] n. summer

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[dãxɨ] v. beat to death; kill by beating

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[dɨgoo] n. food; eatable

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[dùuha] v. sit down

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[gartaɁ] n. paddy field in the upper portion

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Dialect: ant. garpw’

[gɨɨ] v. move by manouvering

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[gjandi] n. debt; dues; financial obligation

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[gjáa] v. spread (esp. seeds or sand by throwing)

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[haabjã] n. chest

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[hamã] n. vegetable

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[hiicí] v. grimace; make face (usually in pain)

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Dialect: syn. hiizi’

[hoɉalo] conj. but; even then

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[hɨɉo] n. a variety of bamboo

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[iʎoɁ] n. machete

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[ikóo] n. underside; bottom

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[imiɁ] n. sitting space around the traditional fireplace

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[ixò hóonɨ] n. the person who sponsors the dry meat distributed to the participants of penw procession, usually a close relative of the main sponsor of Muruñ

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[ɉomɨɁ] n. cloud

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[kado-lili] adv. publicly; in everybody’s full view

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[kapa] v. find; discover; see

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[karbjã] adj. full (of the moon)

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Dialect: syn. harbyañ

[keemɨɁ] v. rub into powder

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

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Dialect: syn. ko’bw

[koŋ kolò] n. four days back

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[kɨce] v. break by hitting or punching

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[kɨdi paju] n. glue obtained from a variety of tuber

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[kɨlĩ] pron. whatever

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[kɨɲiɁ] adj. cruel; brutal; fiendish; ruthless

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[lugjaɁ] v. speak wrongly

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Dialect: syn. luxa’

[lulù-lugo] v. disturb by speaking

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Dialect: syn. lulù

[lɨxɨ̃] n. dirt on the feet

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[meciɁ-mei] v. search minutely

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[miɁ] v. get extinguished (of fire or light)

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[mo] v. move one’s face

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[mõpaɁ] v. chase; drive away; persue

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

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[mɨmiɁ] v. extinguish; douse; put out (fire)

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Dialect: syn. ami’

[mɨrí] n. charcoal

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[mɨɨ] v. heal

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[mjodu] n. time; season; period

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Dialect: syn. myodu-myolo

[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

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[nee] v. thresh or knead

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[nɨsĩ-nɨmã] n. flora; plants

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[paɁsǝr] v. kill by hanging

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[paroɁ lɨgo] n. time in the early morning when the cocks crow

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[parsĩ] n. red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus)

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[parɨ] v. rotate

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[paxè] n. mesh, which may be of wire, bamboo or cane; lattice

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[pemiɁ] v. put off (light)

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[piiʎa] n. ritual performed to propitiate pìfá úì

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[pohiɁ] v. caress; pet; fondle; stroke

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Dialect: syn. pohi’-poso etym. po (hug) + hi’ (frisk)

[poorò] adj. big, of cylinderical objects

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Dialect: ant. poozó

[poxe] n. a variety of beer considered inferior in quality

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[puɲũ] adj. normal; typical; usual

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[pɨdĩ] n. male hair knot

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[pɨdĩ xotu] n. metal skewer for hair knot

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[pjaɁ] v. splash; throw (water)

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[púlĩ] v. flower; bloom; blossom

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[rade emo] n. a late ripening variety of paddy

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[rɨɁ] v. sit (as do the chickens); perch; roost

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[rɨgã] n. edge; border; boundary

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[sabeɁ] n. key

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Dialect: Or. Assamese

[sãtǝr] n. a variety of glass bead

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[simbja] n. balcony in a traditional house

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Dialect: var. siñbya

[sisa] n. glass

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[sorɉĩ] adj. straight

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[sɨbi laɁhĩ] n. a variety of creeper used for decoration

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[sɨso] n. wild cat

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[tago] n. a variety of tree

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[tariɁ] n. body odor

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[tarxɨɁ] n. break something with hand

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[tõ] v. offer; give

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[tɨlo] v. drop something from a height

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[ura imiɁ] n. second hearth towards the back of the house

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[utɨ] n. camel

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[xaarũ agjã] n. altars for the xaruñ god

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[xe] v. read; count

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[xɨpó] v. cut a tree in the middle of its trunk

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[jalã pombo] n. hairy caterpillar

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[jana] n. a species of bamboo

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[jo badè] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

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Dialect: syn. xaci; bade

[ɲimaɁ] n. war; enemy

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[ɲipá] n. general term for people living in the plains of the south

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[ɲor] v. step on something

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Dialect: syn. zar

[ábì] v. swing; sway; oscillate; move back and forth

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