Apatani English

[abaɁ] v. put a load; help carry

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[abǝr] pron. something; something that is unspecified or unknown

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ahi ácì] n. toothache

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[akì tapúu] n. dog of white color

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amí-abã] n. elders

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amú] n. lie; untruth; falsehood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[arrò] n. vein, artery, nerve, tendon

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. argò

[arí-apɨ] n. neighbourhood; locality

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[atúu] n. progeny; young; offspring; baby animal

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bebuɁ] n. gun

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mubu’; bibu’

[bibuɁ] n. gun

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. mubu’ var. bebu’

[bɨso-kaco] n. forbidden; proscribed; prohibited

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[cãtɨ-dotɨ] n. universe; cosmos

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɁhiɁ-daɁmo] v. stand for a while; wait for a while

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dar] v. move or lift with a stick used as a lever

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[diigò] n. matter; issue; work

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[dĩxo] adj. bald-headed; hairless

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. duñxó

[dɨpjo aíi] n. canine tooth

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[eɁxaɁ] v. miss a target by shooting

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. e’da’

[ẽtɨ pǝrǝ] n. large cane mat used for temporary storage of harvested paddy in the field

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ga] v. scold; rebuke; reprimand;chide

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: la.wav?

[gagǝr] adv. by any means; by hook or by crook

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gaŋu] n. mouth harp

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[gõpĩ] v. close mouth

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. goñko’ syn. goñpyañ

[haaʎĩ] n. fourth lunar month of the year; April

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hẽ] v. think; love

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hilĩ] n. clotted blood

Speaker: Nani Anga

[ho] n. and

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨrɨ] n. a traditional dance accompanied by ballad of same name, usually performed by the males

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨɨmi] n. widow

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[iŋĩ] n. purple yam (Dioscorea alata)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉar] num. thousand

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɉiʎĩ] n. Indian strawberry (Potentilla indica)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. jifuñ; akì jifuñ

[ɉiɉi ɉixo] adj. dark blue

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉo] v. lift; carry

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kaco] adj. dirty; soiled; smeared; filthy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kakur] v. look back

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karɨɁ] v. meet; greet

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[keele] n. an agricultural implement of short pointed bamboo chisel used for weeding

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[korɨɁ] v. carry a baby on the chest

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[laɁku] adj. sinistral; left (side)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. la’ci

[lã] v. move (esp. of head)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mataɁ perũ] n. a variety of bean

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[miʎĩ] n. tip (of a plant or a tree)

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[milò ĩ] v. to get married (of a female)

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: ant. myw laa

[mipá sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[mubu] n. ash; ash color

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨbjũ] v. help; contribute

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgĩ] adj. beneficial; profitable, of works

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨgjaɁ] v. do wrongly; commit a mistake

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mɨxè] v. do something forcefully

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nǝǝ] letter name n the letter representing n in the Apatani alphabet

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nalò] v. push down

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nañlò

[nami] n. portion of village, esp. the upper one

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. nako

[nãlò] v. push something down

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. nalò

[nẽtó] n. a house on the main street

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. niñtó ant. neñbu, niñbu

[nɨɲi] pron. you two; second person dual pronoun

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pake] v. cross; intersect; crisscross

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pemiɁ] v. put off (light)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[piɁɲi] num. eight

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pila xugjuɁ] n. bamboo funnel for distilling pìlaa

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pijã] n. Indian mole rat; Bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pore o] n. a variety of beer preparation

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. pore

[puhaɁ] n. crow

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. poha’

[pɨɉoda] adv. later on; after sometime

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨlo harbjã] n. full moon

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reŋe] adj. tired

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. reqw

[rohĩhe] adv. thrice; three times

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rutĩ] n. earring

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[rɨɁtú] n. a part of marriage ceremony in which paddy a newly married couple harvest paddy from the bride’s family field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[saiklo] v. bicycle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[saroɁ sanɨ] n. banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãɉe] n. timber; wood

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sembo] n. a variety of wild cherry

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. semo

[sokiɁ] n. chair

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[sɨlã pacã] n. nape of the neck

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taarò] adj. many; large numbers

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: syn. toorò ant. tazó

[Tanɨ agũ] n. Apatani language

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tãdɨɁ] v. get poisoned by drinking

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tuu] v. pick up

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xeɲiɁ] n. temple

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. xeñji’

[xirki] n. window

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xoɁ] v. pry open

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xɨro] n. large intestine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaa] v. rot; decay; decompose

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jaabũ] adj. dull (of a person)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

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

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jagɨ] n. cane or bamboo basket

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jasɨɁ] v. wash (one’s hand)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jãko patɨ] n. lion (Panthera lion)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jormɨɁ] n. dried chili pepper

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲaɲiɁ] n. honey

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. zazo

[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ɲibja] adv. fast; quick

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[áa] v. come; arrive; enter

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ásù] adj. lazy; slothful; sluggish

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ĩka] pron. that

Speaker: Tage Yassing