Ibibio English

[ LL ]

noun    hat, cap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

question    where?

Dialect: mmoo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHHH ]

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

Dialect: moimoi

[ H.HL ]

noun    central beam of a house, it runs the length of the roof

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    a seat without a back

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHLL ]

noun    radio (English loanword)

[ HHH ]

noun    stew, soup

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF LL ]

noun    a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

Dialect: ngkim enuang

[ LLL ]

noun    mould

[ LL ]

noun    bag, pocket; a piece of woven raffia before or after being sewn into a bag.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF ]

noun    cluster (of fruit, e.g grapes)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

verb, transitive    make an error, err, miss, offend, do unwittingly, do by chance.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    remove from a hook, remove what hangs, unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

Dialect: koomo

[ LLH ]

verb, intransitive    lament, complain, regret

[ HDH ]

quantitative    other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH HL ]

noun    eyebrow

Dialect: mkponganyen

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ HF ]

noun    a place set aside for something esp a fireplace; a focal place.

Dialect: ebuk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

verb, intransitive    bend a part of the body, bend all the way over; become bent

Dialect: nugho

[ LHLL ]

noun    king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

verb, intransitive    become called, named, bear a name

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF ]

noun    bunch of plantain or bananas (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    lick, lick off

Dialect: ngweem

[ LLH ]

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[ LH ]

noun    fishhook

[ HH ]

noun    palm wine, strong alcohol

Dialect: mmin

[ LH ]

noun    the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

verb, transitive    make incantation, call down a curse on

Dialect: tangnga

[ HHLLLL ]

noun    a kind of large forest bird, eagle, it can beat the air with its wings and make a great noise

Dialect: ntituukpuum

[ HHH ]

verb, intransitive    become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    rub off, erase, wipe clean, polish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

noun    banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

adjective    thin, lean and sickly (of a person)

Dialect: mkping

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ LLHL ]

noun    cat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    weight

[ LHH ]

noun    crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

noun    strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHL LL ]

noun    a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[ LLL ]

noun    wall

Dialect: ibene

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp of the ground or of something which should be flat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

verb, intransitive    urinate

Dialect: tok

[ HF ]

noun    a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF ]

noun    trouble

[ LLLL ]

noun    a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

Dialect: ngkanda

[ HHHH ]

noun    bell, clock, hour

Dialect: ngkanika

[ LH ]

verb, transitive    hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Dialect: kpokko

Speaker: itoro ituen

[ LHH ]

noun    clan chief

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

adjective    wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

Dialect: ngkanga

[ LLL ]

noun    wasp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHHL ]

noun    adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, intransitive    become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

transitive verb    remove palm fruit from the pot with a basin or calabash

[ LH ]

verb, transitive    scramble for something (as children scramble for coins dropped on the ground)

Dialect: bime

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

verb, transitive    stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

Dialect: tit

[ LF ]

noun    your husband

[ LL ]

noun    a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[ LLLL ]

noun    error, fault; a fine (var. ndude)

[ H ]

verb, transitive    cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

Dialect: wut

[ LLL ]

verb, transitive    crumble

[ HH ]

noun    weavil

[ LHHH ]

noun    big, huge.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

verb, transitive    eject, hurl, throw, shoot, sting

[ HL ]

conjunction    since (time, cause), because

[ LHH ]

adjective    young, not full grown

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

verb, transitive    lick, clean out, clean up, scoop out (esp. the flesh of a soft succulent fruit)

Dialect: kooro

[ HF ]

noun    monkey

Dialect: ebok

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

noun, adjective    cold, wet

Dialect: ndedeng

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

noun    congealed secretions

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    touch; fig affect

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    drive away, drive off, send away, follow, go afte, chase, catch up to, join

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

noun    an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

Dialect: ngkuku

[ HHHH ]

noun    cold, cattarrh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

numeral    second

[ HH ]

noun    expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HLL ]

noun    sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

Dialect: ndikpo

[ HF ]

noun    a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

verb, transitive    place an order

[ HL ]

noun    knuckle

Dialect: nnuk

[ HHH HL ]

noun    eyeball

Dialect: mkporoanyen

[ LH HDH ]

noun    ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHL ]

adjective    without response

[ HH ]

verb, intransitive    exhibit pride

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    cheek

Dialect: mfuk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HL ]

ideophone    describes something that passes by very fast

[ HL ]

ideophone    sound made by a flat object when it falls flat to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HF ]

noun    fatness, breadth

[ L ]

verb, transitive    send, send for, send to (a person or a message), send for a nefarious purpose, pl esp instigate stimulate a desire in, cause longing in

Dialect: dong

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HL ]

noun    address form for father, grandfather, old man

[ HLL ]

adverb    completely

[ LH ]

verb, intransitive    become born

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHHLLLHL ]

noun    locust

Dialect: ngkukumkpoyoriyo

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Dialect: kaanga

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHHH ]

noun    table

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Dialect: ko

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHLLH HL ]

noun    rough skin, tough skin

Dialect: mkpiriikpu idem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

noun    a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

Dialect: mmanyanga

[ L ]

verb, transitive    tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments

[ HHH ]

noun    kidney, heart.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

verb, intransitive    become childish, act childish (pl. of sere)

[ HHL ]

number    one hundred.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang