Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun water buffalo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun yawn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun you

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun A sexually transmitted infection (STI) in men, involves painful swellings on the groin area that may impede walking

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun a metail basin used for storing and carrying food and water(borrowed from English basin)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive fail to show appreciation, criticize what has been done for one

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive receive, take back, accept; endure

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] noun term of address used betwee men of equal age and status, its use generally implies intimacy, it is occasionally used to address a stranger and is currently used by young girls although this latter is considered improper by men

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive fall in drops, rain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] interrogative adverb how? in what way?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive marry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large bat found in the bush, fruit bat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun rope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun whip; cane; belt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the area from the waist to the hips

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pick at, scratch, dig out, bore a hole, curve out, force ones way into (gen some effort is required)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive fold, fold over (arms, paper, cloth, leaves) - plural form of kpan̄

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of the fallof an enamel cup

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive trim (branches, hair), cut down (a tree)

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive pull down the lower eye lid to show triumph, to mock

[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive greet, thank, congratulate, express

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive swallow (pl. of men)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive choose, select

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun white (pl. of afia)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun a seat without a back

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] pronoun my

[LL] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms), grope

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[L] verb, transitive blind

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[LHD] noun a kind of fruit tree, its fruits have a brownish cover, firm orange or white flesh, and a big seed, cola rostrata

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[LHH] noun evening (dusk until midnight)

[LH] noun fear

[HLLH] noun crawl (of a baby, a snake)

[LHH] noun mockery

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[LLL] noun a boil on the finger or toe

[HH] verb, intransitive to be clean; to acquit, find innocent

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

[HH] verb, intransitive become lost, disappear, cease (of customs)

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, stir

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[LH] verb, intransitive come down, descend (var. sọijọ)

[L] ideophone describes water falling drop by drop

[HDH] noun some

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LHLL] noun rice

[HH] noun sliminess, stickiness, a viscous secretion

[HH] noun weavil

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LLL] noun universe

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LHL] numeral five

[LH] noun fishhook

[LH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark