Apatani English

[aʎeɁ] n. door

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[aʎeɁ ago] n. doorstep

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alo sudu] n. small bamboo salt container carried for feeding mithuns

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[alóo xuu] n. inherited property (esp. house plot)

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[amã] n. roof

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[aíi hiipĩ] n. feline jaw used to decorate a machete sheath

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bade] n. ceiling rack for storing meat syn. yo bade; xaci

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Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. yo bade; xaci

[biɉe lẽda] n. path leading to or inside the bamboo garden

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjaací] n. space between the front verandah and the main space in an Apatani house

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. byaarañ

[bjuhu] n. grave; tomb

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[bjuxɨ̃] n. cemetery; burial ground; graveyard

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[daɁreɁke] n. lower rack over the fireplace

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. daare’ re’ke

[ẽtɨ pataɁ] n. wooden try on which to beat while harvesting paddy

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎã] v. bless

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎãpĩ-cãtũ] n. protective deity in the household

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ʎego] n. threshold; entrance

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[ganda] n. country; land

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[garpɨɁ] n. paddy field in the lower portion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. garta’

[gartaɁ] n. paddy field in the upper portion

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. garpw’

[gartú] adj. small (as a field)

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. gaarò

[gɨri] n. pigsty

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[hubur] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. hurbu

[hurbu] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

Speaker: Nani Anga,
Dialect: var. hubur

[itú] adj. small; short

Speaker: Tage Yassing

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

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[ɉibu garɨ] n. jeep

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. English

[ɉompu] n. bamboo shaving used as a ritual element or a decorative item syn. some

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[karsĩ] n. kerosene

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[keɁtĩ] n. thatch

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[kompjutar] n. computer

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[kotǝr] n. bamboo sticks used as counters

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[kursi] n. chair

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[kutu] n. oil; pig fat used as hair oil

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãke] n. a cane loop used for restraining cattle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lãxa] n. coop, as for poultry; shelter, as of a hunter in the tree

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lemba] n. village

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[leŋò] n. lawn; front yard; space in the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[leju] n. a small path leading to a village

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[lẽda] n. path

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

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Speaker: Tage Yassing

[malo] n. roof of a house

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mida] n. a part of marriage ceremony

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[midĩ] n. nursery for paddy; seed bed

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Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mohol] n. big house; bungalow

Speaker: Tage Yassing,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[mjamja] n. antique brass plate

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjopɨ] n. floor

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[mjoxa] n. bamboo floor

Speaker: Tage Yassing

[nago] n. ritual hut in the middle of a village

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nala pakaɁ] n. drain

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. nala

[narũ] n. fencing (esp. of bamboo garden)

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nekã] n. toilet; latrine

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nelo] n. household; independent house

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[nesú] n. granary

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽbu] n. a house away from the main street

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. niñbu ant. neñto

[nẽbu] n. home

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽcã] n. plot of land for home

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[nẽdĩ] n. upper section of the village

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: ant. neñkó

[nɨbju] n. textile

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[opis] n. office

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English

[paɁga] n. long supporting post on both sides of a traditional Apatani house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[padĩ] n. erosion control embankment usually of bamboo and wood along the banks of the streams

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ lãxa] n. poultry house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[paroɁ pɨri] n. chicken coop

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pataɁ ude] n. house with roof of bamboo split

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pili] n. playground; open field

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[posa] n. money (esp. coins); paisa

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese (Paisa)

[pota] n. paper

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[põtã] n. a section of village council

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨdi mɨlũ nanɨ] n. scarecrow to scare away birds

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨrɨ] n. wooden boundary of a hearth

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[pɨteɁ paɉi] n. motor cycle

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[reɁke] n. ceiling

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[roɁko] n. a bamboo strip that tightens the beams of a house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sa ciɁri] n. a variety of antique sword

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sabũ] n. soap

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: Or. Assamese

[saiklo] v. bicycle

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[sãtaɁ] n. wooden plank

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãtaɁ ude] n. wooden house

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sãxã] n. border post

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sisa] n. glass

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Hindi

[sosĩ] n. steel wire rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[subu arɨɨ] n. mithun horn

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sukũ pɨtĩ] n. open space by a well

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[sɨha] n. cane rope

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. saha

[sɨrã] n. post; pole; pillar

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[taabjó] n. a temporary hut

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taar] n. wire; cable; power line

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

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

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[taku-tamu] n. a decorated bamboo stick used during penw procession of Muruñ festival

Speaker: Tage Numpi

[tasi] n. wall

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: var. tarsi

[teli] n. oil

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨko] n. money

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. Assamese

[tɨpe] n. tattoo

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[uskul] n. school

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: or. English syn. wskul

[ɨskul] n. school

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. uskul or. English

[xapo] n. bamboo rack above the fireplace

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[xõdã] n. front or back wall of a house

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. piñdañ

[jaɉi-jalo] n. soul

Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo asóo] n. strips of smoke preserved pork

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Speaker: Tage Kanno

[jo badè] n. ceiling rack for storing meat

Example: Photo by Tage Kanno

Speaker: Tage Kanno,
Dialect: syn. xaci; bade