Ibibio English

[ HHH ]

verb, transitive    walk here and there, zigzag

Dialect: kpooro

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHL ]

noun    thigh; lap.

Dialect: ifukko

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHL ]

noun    brain

Dialect: mfire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

verb, transitive    make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, intransitive    become narrow, small; tv wrinkle, frown, contract narrow.

Dialect: furo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

ideophone    sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Dialect: kpirang

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ HHH ]

verb, transitive    push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Dialect: kpoongo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHL ]

noun    basket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    the young of an animal

Dialect: nyin

[ LH ]

verb, transitive    rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

verb, transitive    crumble

[ L ]

verb, transitive    cajole, entice, lure.

Dialect: kpeek

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    oppression

Dialect: ufik

[ LHH ]

noun    needle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

verb, transitive    pour, pour out, spill, pl. of duọk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

noun    room

[ HF ]

noun    slavery (var. ufʌn)

Dialect: ufin

[ LLL ]

noun    toad

Dialect: ikuot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

question    where?

Dialect: mmoo

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLL ]

noun    pl people

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

verb, transitive    join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    entice, lure, bribe, cajole

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[ L ]

verb, transitive    turn around, turn back, turn around and go back (used with edem, asin a kpa edem).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLLLH LLLLH ]

adjective    dry and crisp, rough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    hip joint

Dialect: iwong

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

noun; adjective    farm

Dialect: ingwang

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHL ]

noun    your kinsman

[ LH ]

verb, intransitive    become born

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

Dialect: kpirek

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[ L ]

verb, transitive    cook by burying in hot ashes

Dialect: bim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHHL ]

noun    rheumatism.

Dialect: ewangko

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

verb, intransitive    converse, tell, inform

[ LHL LL ]

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

[ HL ]

interjection    expression of concern, regret, apology

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

noun    widow, lit. husband died.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

adverb    a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHHL ]

noun    adolescent girl

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

noun    belly

Dialect: idip

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

verb, intransitive    become childish, act childish

[ LF ]

noun    impotent man

Dialect: ito

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    arm and/or hand; handle; power, strength, ability

Dialect: ubok

[ LHD ]

noun    epilepsy, an epileptic

[ LLL ]

noun    pot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHHH ]

verb, transitive; verb, intransitive    turn, twist, twist around, twist together (poss involves a more complete turn or twist than fiak); iv become twisted (of its own accord); turn (of a wheel).

Dialect: fianga

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HL ]

noun    knuckle

Dialect: nnuk

[ LH ]

noun    the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

Dialect: ngkuk

[ HH ]

noun    silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

Dialect: ukim

[ L.LH.HL ]

adjective    bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

ideophone    sound of a bell

Dialect: nang

[ LL ]

noun    life, destiny, universe, creation

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[ LH ]

verb, intransitive    lie

Dialect: sugho

[ HH ]

noun    meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHHH ]

noun    young curled cocyam leaf

Dialect: ngkukuo

[ HHH ]

noun    shreds, particle

Dialect: mbenge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    a seat without a back

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    pay attention (used with utON, as in a kpaN utON, listen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHL ]

number    one hundred.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLH ]

verb, transitive    forget.

Dialect: fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

verb, intransitive    swim; become loose

Dialect: wok

[ LH ]

noun    strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

noun    delicacies, luxury food, little bits of luxury food (nuts, bits of meat) (var. ndien, ndiin)

[ H ]

pronoun    what, who which

[ HH ]

noun    the sediment which sinks to the bottom of the pot when palm oil is boiled after being extracted from the fruit, dregs

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HL ]

noun    yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHH ]

verb, intransitive    become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

noun    sperm, semen

[ L ]

verb, transitive    taste liquid, take a sip, sip

Dialect: tum

[ HH ]

noun    knee.

Dialect: edong

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LHH ]

noun    calamity

[ HH ]

ideophone    sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, intransitive    become dark, black

Dialect: kim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

ideophone    sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

verb, transitive    eat up a large quantity of food.

Dialect: feng

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, transitive    intimidate, pressurize

Dialect: nyik

[ L ]

ideophone    describes water falling drop by drop

[ LHL ]

noun    a plank, the board for the game of draughts (checkers)

Dialect: adukpok

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

[ L ]

verb, transitive    try to persuade, urge, importune, dun.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ L ]

verb, intransitive    live, be alive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLHHH ]

noun    [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

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

Dialect: wut

[ HF ]

noun    a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LLLH ]

noun    centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ H ]

verb, intransitive    cough

Dialect: kong

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HHF ]

noun    a kind of large edible snail.

Dialect: ekuong

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

noun    miser, tight-fisted person

[ HF ]

noun    chin.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LH ]

noun    a rattle, musical instrument filled with seeds or pebbles which is shaken; strings of seeds worn around ankles and wrists to make noise when dancing

[ LH ]

noun    challenge, dare; resolution

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    clear, sweep remaining bits of afere (soup) from a plate with the hand or a piece of fufu.

Dialect: kponno

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ HH ]

verb, transitive    mix; adulterate (as palm wine by adding water)

[ LH ]

noun    your father

Dialect: uso

[ HH ]

noun    expanse e.g. ocean

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[ LL ]

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

Speaker: itoro ituen