Apatani English

[aarã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. uurañ

[abju-ateɁ] n. movement; motion; activity

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Dialect: var. abyú-axe’

[aʎã xɨ] num. sixty

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[aʎoo] n. tongue

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[agɨ] v. dress; clothe; put on dress

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[ahi pyoɁsu] v. brush one’s teeth

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[alã] n. neck;hump of an ox; neck of a bottle or a pot

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[apjũ] n. bunch; cluster

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[arná] v. choke

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[artĩ bɨlĩ] n. testicle

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

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[axɨɁ-pataɁ] n. ribs, rib cage

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[ajo-nano] n. a variety of bee (hover bee)

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[bĩpa] n. rope of bamboo skin

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

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Dialect: ant. byañkvr

[burù] n. younger brother

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[bjáa] v. roast; grill

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[dapo pogjã] n. an altar erected during a community penalty or to announce such a penalty

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[daɲi cago] n. east

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Dialect: syn. haaci

[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)

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[dĩko] n. metal skewer inserted horizontally through the male hair knot

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Dialect: syn. pwdiñ xootu

[doɉiɁ roɁpo] n. Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella)

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[domĩ] adj. cloudy; rainy

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Dialect: ant. doqe’

[duɁ] v. throb; beat (as of heart)

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[dutĩ] n. wooden block for sitting on

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[duxu-paʎo] n. luggage; household articles

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[ee] letter name e the letter representing e in the Apatani alphabet

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[ema tupe] n. dreamy (of a person); confused person

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[ʎaŋa] v. flow in (of water)

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[gehe] v. yawn

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[guɁ] v. hatch; sit on or brood eggs

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

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[hiɁ] v. feel; search with hand

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[hime] n. child; youngster

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[hipja] n. front teeth; incisor

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[huʎu] n. bamboo javelin

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[hɨɉo] n. a variety of bamboo

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[ikóo] n. underside; bottom

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[imo] n. paddy

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Dialect: var. emo

[ɉirɨ-ɉixe] v. rotate to and fro

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[kadi] v. stare; gaze; ogle

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[kolĩ] v. throw out (from the mouth)

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[kone abiɁ] pron. everyone

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[kootaɁ] n. buttock

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[leɁ] v. flap (of wing)

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[lɨbã alló] n. knee cap

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[manɨ perũ] n. a variety of bean; French bean

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[miɁbeɁ] v. blink; wink

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[mɨdó] n. rain; weather

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[mɨgjaɁ] v. do wrongly; commit a mistake

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[mɨpĩ] v. close

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Dialect: syn. mwpyañ

[mɨpĩ] v. use or spend a portion

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Dialect: syn. mwmó

[mjoko] n. third lunar month of the year; name of the festival celebrated in March

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[mjɨ] n. wife

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[nã] v. push; press

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[neɁ] v. rub or scrape

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[nẽru] adj. foul smelling

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Dialect: ant. neñpyo

[o sadǝr] n. bamboo funnel for filtering beer

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[pa] v. cut (by striking); fight; peck

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[paapi] n. a variety of flowering plant (Hedychium ellipticum)

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[papù] n. egg

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[paroɁ pai] n. poultry dropping

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[paxuɁ itú] n. a dance usually performed before harvest

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[paɲiɁ] n. small broken pieces of rice

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[peca sanɨ] n. tree of wild pear (Pyrus sp.)

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[pee] v. chant producing a characteristic sound “ho ho…”

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[piiʎa papù] n. a variety of greenish bead

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[poɁle] v. stretch the truth; exaggerate

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[poʎã] n. plateau; a plain area at a height

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[popǝr] n. butterfly

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[purò] adj. big (of spherical objects)

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Dialect: ant. puzó

[pɨʎe] num. four

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Dialect: etym. pwfi + he

[pɨtaɁ ahì] n. wild pear

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[pɨtaɁ appú] n. flower of wild pear tree

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[pjoɁce] v. detach something to divide into two

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[ŋẽciɁ] adj. tasty; delicious

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[ŋɨka] pron. my; first person singular genitive pronoun

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[sa] v. expel, as when delivering babies or defecating

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[sarlã] n. a variety of cane

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[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet

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[siibiɁ] adj. shrivel; wither; wilt

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[sopĩ] n. lizard

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[sɨlo] n. today

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[sɨpiɁ] n. needlework; needlecraft; embroidery

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[sɨxó] n. water channel

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[taɁmo] adj. strong; brawny; powerful

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[tarlũ] adj. barren; childless

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[tartu] v. break

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[tasĩ siĩbo] n. large-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. siñbo

[taxóo] n. a variety of fern

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[tuʎa] v. ambush; lie in wait for; lay trap for

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[tuulu] n. sub-clan

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[xẽtɨ pakù] n. ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis)

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[xõxũ] n. falcon; eagle

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[xɨ] v. cost; value

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[jana] n. a species of bamboo

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[ɲãbjũ] v. put one’s head into the water

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Dialect: syn. zañbuñ

[áamì] n. cat

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[áɉù-amjò] n. appearance; image

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Dialect: syn. ájùu-amyò

[ákojá] pron. something else

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