Apatani English

[abjũ-aʎũ] v. finish binding; tie up by tightening the rope after binding something

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[acò-amyò] n. animals; creatures

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[adĩ dilã] n. grey or red hair

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[aʎĩ] adj. smart; bright; savvy

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[aleɁ] n. wing

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[amiɁ miɁbjo] n. eyelash

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[amo] n. remaining grains of unhusked rice grains among husked ones

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[araɁ] v. tie

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[artaɁ] n. portion; segment; section

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[artĩ] n. scrotum

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[arɨɨ] n. bundle (esp. of bamboo)

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[aì] adj. raw; uncooked

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[beɁɉi] n. injection

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bisǝr abíi] n. Black and white Apatani traditional skirt

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[burtaɁ] n. a variety of snake; cobra

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Dialect: var. borta’

[bjãtũ] adj. big and thick (esp. of flower)

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[bárì] n. traditional ballad (esp. in the genre of the Nyishis)

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[ceɁceɁ] adj. stubborn, obstinate

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[cixɨ-cixo] n. a variety of bird; black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)

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[daɲi riilaɁ] n. sunray

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[doolã] adj. brownish

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[dotɨ] n. sky

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Dialect: syn. mwdóo; yapuñ

[dɨraada] adv. next year

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[dɨru] adj. tasteless; unpleasant to eat

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Dialect: ant. dwpyò

[empjaɁ] n. cotton; wool

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Dialect: var. impya’

[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

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[ʎíi] v. slither (as snakes do)

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[garɨ] n. vehicle

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[haaʎĩ popǝr] n. a variety of moth

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[harceɁ] n. fold of the groin

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[heɁ] v. knit

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[hẽki] adj. sincere; honest; unfeigned

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[ho] num. in; at

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[hɨɲur hamã] n. a variety of vegetable

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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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[ĩgjaɁ] v. astray; off course; go the wrong way

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[ɉeɁ] v. soften; become tender on cooked

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[kapeɁ] adj. transparent; translucent; obvious; evident

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Dialect: syn. kape’-kase’

[keemeɁ] adj. taste, as of spoilt fat; rancid

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Dialect: syn. keembe’

[koha] num. nine

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[ku] v. ask for; beg; seek; request; solicit

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[kɨle toʎoɁ] n. sweet flag; a variety of flowering plants that grow along river banks and marshy places (Acorus calamus)

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[lalĩ] n. footprint

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[luɉiɁ] adj. friendly; amicable

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[luxoɁ] v. disagree; express different opinion

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[lɨbe-laɁbe] adj. lazy; lethargic

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[lɨgǝr] adj. bent; crooked; not straight

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[maɁlã] n. many; numerous; abundant

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[miɁbjoɁ amu] n. eyelash

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Dialect: syn. mi’be’ amu

[milò] n. husband

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

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Dialect: syn. swtw byako

[mɨdu-mɨje] n. strands of hair extending down the forehead, as often kept by young women

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[mɨgó] n. hearth; fireplace

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[mɨrí] n. charcoal

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[mɨsiɁ] v. take one’s turn in doing something

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[mjobja] adj. facing the sunny side

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Dialect: ant. myofi

[nane] pron. your mother

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Dialect: syn. nama

[naspati] n. pear

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[nẽpũ] n. space outside the house on the left side

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[nɨɉi] n. indigo (colour)

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[nɨpa] pron. for you; second person singular dative pronoun

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[papù aʎò] n. egg white

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[paxɨɁ] v. cut to break or fracture bones in a piece of meat

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[pilã] adj. yellow

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[pixɨ] n. spindle used for spinning thread from cotton

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Dialect: var. pixu syn. tapo

[popita ahì] n. papaya

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[põcuɁ] adj. narrow

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[pɨcã paakuɁ] n. kitchen utensils

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Dialect: syn. pwcañ swdu

[pjã] v. swell, as of wound

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Dialect: syn. gòobu

[rari hamã] n. a variety of vegetable (Piper brachystachum)

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Dialect: var. raru hamañ

[ronɨ] n. madman; lunatic; maniac

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Dialect: syn. runw

[rubiɁ jarú] n. right ear

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[rɨɁti] v. bind tightly

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[saɁlĩ] v. breathe out; exhale

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Dialect: ant. sa’lw’

[saaxu] n. pine cone

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[sampjá] n. wooden tray used for transporting soil from one place to the other in an agricultural field

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[sarxe sarse] n. a late ripening variety of millet

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[sãsũ] adj. weedy

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[sãti] v. push something tightly as when packing

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[sẽ] v. wither; dry

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[sẽbiɁ] adj. half-withered

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[soɉã] n. lizard

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[sosiɁ-sosiɁ] adv. in a line; one after the other

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[tago alì] n. a wooden tricycle used a children’s toy the wheels of which are of tagó tree trunk

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[tagur ẽso] n. a variety of weed

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[taɉè] v. believe; regard as true; be convinced by

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[takĩ] n. cowrie shell

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Dialect: syn. takiñ za’co

[talɨɁ] v. agree

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[tapã daʎi] n. east

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[tare] n. thorn

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Dialect: var. twre

[tarɲe] n. pus

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Dialect: var. taze

[uurã] adj. deep

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Dialect: syn. aarañ ant. uuxa’

[ũ] v. sip; take a sip

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[jabĩ] n. a variety of bamboo (Cephalostachium capitatum)

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[jaɉuɁ pɨxo] n. a variety of dragonfly

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[jato pano] n. an aquatic insect

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[ɲade] adv. rude; impolite; harsh

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

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Dialect: syn. zañbyuñ

[ɲibu] n. Apatani shaman

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[ɲĩpǝr] n. nipple

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