Apatani English

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

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[aarí] n. saw

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Dialect: or. Hindi

[abĩ] adj. fruitful; productive

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Dialect: ant. asu’

[akó-abiɁ] pron. everyone; everybody; every person

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[alì lɨpĩ] n. instep

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[amã] n. roof

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[amiɁ miɁbjo] n. eyelash

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

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[amɨɁ] adj. small; tiny; fine

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Dialect: ant. árù

[ane] n. mother (term of address)

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Dialect: syn. ama

[api-aláa] n. sap of a tree

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[artaɁ] n. portion; segment; section

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[ate] n. elder brother (term of address)

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[beɁɉi] n. injection

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bũ] v. crowd

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[bjaako] n. kind of edible berry

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[búu] v. give birth to var. bww

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Dialect: var. bww

[cẽxo] n. scab (of a wound); crust

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[ciba] n. small cane bag usually used for carrying tiffin

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[ciirɨ] n. edge; brim

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Dialect: syn. lwwrw

[cikã] part. like; similar

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[ciruɁ] n. pocket; pouch

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Dialect: syn. cíkù

[daɁ] v. stand; be there

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[daanɨ] n. a gift item on the occasion of Mida, a part of Apatani marriage ceremony

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[daɲi áago] n. west

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Dialect: syn. haatw

[diigò] n. matter; issue; work

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[dormaa] n. salary; wage

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[dɨnɨ-barnɨ] n. wives of brothers (term of reference)

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[dɨpjoɁ-tãsoɁ] v. eat or drink something to break the monotony or to add taste to the food

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[dɨxuɁ-tãxuɁ] n. left over eatables

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[ʎo] v. jump

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[ʎoɁgã] n. blunt edge of the sword

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[garu] n. pillow

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Dialect: syn. diñ nanw

[gõcã] n. labial commissure

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[gɨtu-gɨra] n. traditional relations and ways of life

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[haaɲa] adj. small; young

Speaker: Nani Anga

[haho] prep. up; top; high; upper

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[hẽɉũ] n. comfort; ease; luxury; opulence

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hiɁ] v. whip; lash; flog

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[hiɁxɨɨ] v. wring; twist

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[hoã alló] n. backbone

Speaker: Nani Anga

[hɨpe hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Elatostema platyphyllum)

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[ipoɁ] n. yeast; yeast cake used to ferment grains while preparing beer

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[ijuɁ] n. an ailment in which a person loses appetite, believed to be caused by somebody’s property, esp. ginger plants growing in somebody else’s garden

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[ɉiimu] v. giddy; dizzy; vertiginous

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Dialect: syn. sumu

[ɉiɉe] adj. truthful, true

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[ɉoɉuru] n. a fruit bearing creeper (Silene sp.)

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[kaʎã] v. look after; help

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Dialect: syn. kafañ kada

[kageɁ] v. look at

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[karda-bjaɲi alo] n. Friday

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[kociɁ] adj. bitter

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[kooʎã] adj. round

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Dialect: ant. koofo’

[koju] n. anus

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Dialect: syn. iyu

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

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Dialect: syn. kupyu’

[kutĩ] n. traditional relationship

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[laɁso] n. middle finger; a unit of measurement equivalent to the length of the outstretched thumb and middle finger

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Dialect: syn. la’ci’ lwpá

[lãcã] adj. red

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[leɁta] v. spread, as wing

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Dialect: syn. le’tvr

[lohĩ] n. three days

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[miʎĩ] n. tip (of a plant or a tree)

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[milo rɨɉì] n. a variety of fern used in the construction of altars (Diplazium esculentum)

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[muɁ] v. blow (air)

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[mɨgeɁ] n. pincers, usually of bamboo

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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[mɨpĩ] v. use or spend a portion

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Dialect: syn. mwmó

[mɨra] n. effigy in an agricultural field to scare away birds

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[mɨtĩ] v. obstruct

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[mjoxa] n. bamboo floor

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[niti] adj. new

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[ohó] adj. tall; high

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[pilã-pisã] adj. light yellow

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[pɨge] n. barbet

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[rã] v. tie; tether

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[rõpe] adv. four times

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[rɨɁ] v. bind; strap

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[rɨlã] adj. euphemism for “heavy” when referred to the weight of a baby

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[saaxu] n. pine cone

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[sah patɨ] n. tea leaf; tea grain

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[sãpǝr] n. a variety of fruit used as a spice

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[sãxã] n. rubber

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[siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siizi’

[siɲiɁ tasĩ] n. a variety of small sized larvae

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

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[tabe] n. sugarcane plant

Speaker: Tage Numpi,
Dialect: var. twbe

[tabũ] n. smallpox

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[tagoɁ] v. ignore (listening)

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Dialect: syn. tapa’

[takĩ] n. cowrie shell

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

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Dialect: syn. takiñ za’co

[takuɁ] n. cucumber

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[tapĩ] n. a species of bamboo

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[tapũ] n. bat

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[tolɨɁ] v. pour something in

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Dialect: ant. toliñ

[ɨtaɁ] n. stinger (of bee or wasp)

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Dialect: syn. ata’

[xã] v. narrate; gossip

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[xelɨɁ] v. force someone to do something

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[xẽ] v. cut

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[xoɁ] v. crow (as a cock)

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[japĩ tɨpe] n. tattoo on the nose

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[jasã] n. firewood; wood

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[ɲagó] n. snout

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[ɲakù] adj. tilted; askew

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[ɲipá jaru] n. an aquatic plant; azolla (Azolla pinnata)

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