Apatani English

[adáa] n. a person who has always had only one wife

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[ageɁ] v. stick as with glue

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[aɉĩ] v. befriend

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[aɉuɁ] adj. weak; frail; feeble; sick; ailing

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Dialect: syn. ájùu

[amjũ] v. grow (as an offshoot)

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[apaɁ] v. to give up; to let go

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Dialect: syn. opa’

[artĩ ku] v. castrate

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[arɨɨ] n. horn (anatomical)

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[axɨ] n. guts; entrails; viscera

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[ajádù] int. interjection of frustration

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[ajò lɨpá] n. midnight

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[bebuɁ] n. gun

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Dialect: syn. mubu’; bibu’

[biɉe arɨ] n. bundle of bamboo

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[bĩ] v. uproot (as of weed)

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[buupĩ sɨnɨ] n. twin; siblings

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[cahiɁ] n. miser

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[ciɁ] v. hurl (as a javelin)

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[cigu] n. source (of a stream)

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[do] v. be; exist; lie

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Dialect: ant. zima

[dogĩ] n. genesis; origin; creation; migration

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[doomu] adj. cloudy; overcast

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

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[ʎoɁro] n. sharp edge of the sword

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[gõdu] n. arbitration; mediation; mediator

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[gɨmja] n. a variety of spring action trap

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[gjàa] v. cut, with an inward motion of the blade

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[haaʎĩ] adj. beautiful; handsome; pretty

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[hiɁsu-hoɁsu] adj. nonplussed; disconcerted; stumped; at a loss

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[huŋa] v. squat (esp. of quadruplets)

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Dialect: syn. buqá

[hɨɉã] n. new born

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[iɁrũ] v. sleep in somebody else’s house

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

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[ɉarpĩ] v. hysteria; sickness caused by the spirit of a dead person

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[ɉiʎĩ] n. Indian strawberry (Potentilla indica)

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Dialect: syn. jifuñ; akì jifuñ

[ɉo] v. lift; carry

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[ɉuɲa] adj. wet

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Dialect: ant. pitañ syn. juja

[kanɨ] n. one who sees

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[kecĩ] v. to know how to write

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[koʎã] adj. round

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[kooɉuɁ] v. hold one’s legs together

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Dialect: ant. kooga’

[koopuɁ] v. sprain

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Dialect: var. kopw’

[kosiɁ kosiɁ] pron. one after the other

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[kurmu] n. grasshopper

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Dialect: var. kormu

[laɁciɁ lɨpa] n. middle finger

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[lace] n. a part of bride price which a close relative of the bride is entitled to

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[lẽ] v. perish en masse, as do the wild bamboo after flowering

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[locũ] n. bone marrow

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[lɨsĩ pɨtu] n. calf

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[maɉi] n. Tibetan bell without clapper used as a barter item

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[male baɁnɨ] n. porter; carrier

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[medǝr nelo] n. place of worship (Lit. ‘house of purity’)

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[mogo alló] n. cheekbone

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[mɨko-mɨpe] v. disrupt; distract; disturb

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[nãbo] v. push something across

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[oho] n. child; son; daughter

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[pacu] n. chick

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[paʎa] adj. leaning; inclined; bent

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Dialect: syn. pafo’

[paɉi] n. two wheeler vehicle

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[pake] v. cross; intersect; crisscross

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[pakù sɨma] n. fine in the form of a middle-sized mithun for stealing or killing a cattle

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[paroɁ paxɨ] n. entrails of chicken

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[paroɁhe] n. measure worth of a hen or paddy in a paro’ yagw; three persons which was the number of laborers hired with a hen or paro’ yagw full of paddy

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[petiɁ] n. belt

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[pexó] n. a variety of bird

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[pilã kamo] adj. dark yellow

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[puhaɁ] n. crow

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Dialect: var. poha’

[pulúu] adj. white; fair

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[párxɨ] v. twist; spin; twirl

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[ŋǝǝ] letter name q ŋʌʌ the letter representing ŋ in the Apatani alphabet

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[ŋɨi] n. fish

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[ŋɨɨla] n. owl

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Dialect: syn. tapi’ qwwla

[rɨbó arò] n. the morning after three days

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[rɨgũ] n. cane loop tied on the horns of cows or mithuns

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Dialect: syn. rwgo’

[sǝǝ] letter name s the letter representing s in the Apatani alphabet

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[sarlã] n. a variety of cane

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[siiɲiɁ] n. small-sized larvae of dragonfly

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Dialect: syn. tasiñ siizi’

[sukũ] n. well; spring

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[sɨcoɁ] n. spring; wellspring; fountainhead

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[sɨlì] n. water body

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[sɨpiɁ] n. pangolin

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[sɨɨ lutɨ] n. grazing ground

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[sár] v. rip; tear

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[ta] v. listen; hear

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[taɁti] n. cockroach

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[taɁxeɁ] v. lie supine

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[tacì] n. crab

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[tapǝr] adv. terrible (to hear)

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[tarɉĩ] v. straighten

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Dialect: ant. tarki’

[tusǝr] v. straighten one’s leg

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[tɨgò] n. a variety of ritual (esp. to propitiate benevolent deities)

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Dialect: ant. ciciñ

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

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[ɨpɨɁnɨ] n. sweeper

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[xe] v. read; count

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[xɨɨ] v. boil; cook

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[xɨɨ] v. tie (esp. hair into a knot)

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[jalã pombo] n. hairy caterpillar

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[jar] v. persuade; coax; convince; win over

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[ɲibja] adv. fast; quick

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

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[álù] v. to work

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