Apatani English

[aapu kai] n. showy; ostentatious (person)

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[aarí] n. saw

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[ahi daktor] n. dentist

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[aháa ahɨɁ] v. forget; fail to remember

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[aɉĩ-apɨ] n. company; friendship

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[aɉuɁ] n. weak person

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[alo kamjã] adj. everyday; daily; commonplace

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[alɨɁ] v. insert; put

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[amu] n. hair

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[amu] n. yield; production; quantity (crop)

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[anɨ̀-aba] n. parent

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[apĩ pɨcã] n. pot for cooking rice

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[apóo] v. put cloths on cloth holder

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[arɉĩ] v. stretch (esp. one’s body)

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[arlǝ] adj. hard; firm; rigid; strong

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Dialect: var. alvr

[axɨ-ereɁ] n. entrails; viscera

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[bibuɁ] n. gun

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Dialect: syn. mubu’ var. bebu’

[bipĩ] n. mat of animal skin

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[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

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[bɨso] adj. afraid; scared; terrified

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[bjakú] n. a child with developmental delay

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[báxè] adj. brusque; impolite; rude; ill-mannered

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[caarò] adj. big (of pot)

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Dialect: ant. cazó

[cãciɁ-doci] adj. nagging; vexatiuos; troublesome (of a person)

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[cíi] v. be extinct

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[enda] n. fifth lunar moon; May

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[ʎego] n. threshold; entrance

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[ʎĩtũ] a variety of wild raspberry

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[gaɁciɁ] v. hold something at its tip or edge

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[gaŋu] n. mouth harp

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[goi tabú] n. common Indian monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis)

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Dialect: var. gyoi tabú

[golu pakaɁ] n. dimple on the cheek

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[gulũ-gɨle] adj. lukewarm; tepid

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[gɨneɁ-gɨse] v. lightly touch with any part of the body; flirt

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[hɨki] n. stillbirth

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[ɉar] v. fly; soar; glide

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[ɉã] v. be trustworthy, as the omen of chickeen liver or egg might be

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[kalaɁ-kapa] adj. acquainted with

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[koŋ koɲã] n. four years back

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[kɨbjoɁ] v. flash; sparkle

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[kɨce] v. break by hitting or punching

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[kɨteɁ] v. knock down by punching

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

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[laalĩ] v. take out

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[lãke] n. a cane loop used for restraining cattle

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[lobu] n. skeleton

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Dialect: syn. lobu loci

[luxè] v. speak rudely; speak brusquely

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[lɨci] n. left (leg)

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[lɨciɁ] v. accidentally struck on something; tumble into something

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[lɨpjo] n. sole

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[lɨtaɁ] n. cockspur

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[mãpo] n. roof covering

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[mẽdɨ] n. buffalo

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[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

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[mɨlĩ] v. generate

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[mɨlù-mɨle] v. disturb

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[mɨpiɁ] v. break something fragile like an egg

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[mɨxa] v. compete; challenge; contend with; vie with

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[mɨxɨ̃-mɨmjɨ̃] adv. do something in a confused way

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[mɨju] n. ash

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[nakó] n. portion of village (esp. the lower one)

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Dialect: ant. nami

[nelo] n. household; independent house

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[nẽ] v. push, using the body; nudge

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[ohoo] v. feed

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[paduɁ] v. damage by cutting

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[pahe] v. make a dent by cutting

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[pala] n. scale; weighing machine

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[paxu ruduɁ] adj. rough; scaly

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[pesuɁ] n. hornbill

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[pĩta ahi] n. gourd

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[puhaɁ tarpĩ] n. rice root weevil

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[pɨtĩ ŋɨɨla] n. owl

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Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla; qwwla

[rãda] n. smoothing plane

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[rìda] n. he day after tomorrow

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Dialect: syn. rì alo

[sabè] n. loincloth

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[sapì] adj. flattened

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[sarɉaɁ] v. rip; tear

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[sarse] n. millet

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[sãda] n. long wooden post that support a traditional house on both sides

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[siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siizi’

[sitã] pron. like this; this way

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[sɨɉʌr sɨ] v. commit suicide

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[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

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[sɨtɨ bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[taka] v. ask; inquire; interrogate

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Dialect: syn. tahw

[tãka] v. taste (drinking or smoking)

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[to] v. pour

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Dialect: syn. tii

[toɁ] v. descend; go down; climb down

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[tõrò] adj. small (of group)

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Dialect: ant. tozó

[tuɁteɁ] n. forehead of a cattle

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

Example: Photo by Koj Mama

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[ukó] n. back; rear

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[ulu-bjalu] adj. messy; unappetizing

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Dialect: syn. byurw-byarw

[ɨbjoɁ] adj. long

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Dialect: syn. obyo’

[ɨdo] n. stalk

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Dialect: var. ado

[xẽpi] v. dry by heating

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[xáa] v. bark (of a barking deer)

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[ɲadu-ɲabo] v. rebuff; brush off

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[ɲiɁmo] n. face

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

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