Ibibio English

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun adolescent girl

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[HF] noun squirrel

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[HHL] noun forest

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[HH] noun child, offspring

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

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[HH] verb, transitive waste

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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[HL] noun bowl(cf. abawIt, bawIt)

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[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[HH] verb, transitive feed, nurse, rear a child

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[HH] verb, intransitive stand, shine (of sun or moon)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

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[LH] verb, intransitive fierce, brave, valiant, dare, become hot, burn (of pepper), become sarp, function work (of medicine, magic)

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[HHF] noun spear.

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[HF] noun rain.

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[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

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[LLL] noun world.

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[LHH] noun copulation.

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[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

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[LHHH] noun a loan

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[LLL] noun a flowing gown, usually worn by women.

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[HH] verb, transitive stick into a narrow space, wedge in, put between.

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[HHH] verb, intransitive become thin, light in weight, lightened (of a load); become light on the feet, sprightly.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become jealous, envious often.

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[L] verb, transitive blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

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[LH] noun belly

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[HH] noun tortoise.

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[LL] noun time

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[LL] noun river

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[LHL] number five

(Igbo) ise

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

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[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive die perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] ideophone sound of an automatic horn.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood); become difficult (of a task)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

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[L] verb, transitive gather, collect (leaves, fish, crayfish)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

[HHH] noun shreds, particle

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[HHH] noun race

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

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[LH HD] noun ring

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun thing, something; matter event. This is one of the most productive words in Ibibio, it serves as any unspecified subject or object

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHL] interjection no

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] adverb also, too

[LL] conjunction with, and

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[HHLHDH] noun wart

[HH] noun a women’s society

[LL] noun place

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LHL] noun crybaby, a person who cries at every little thing

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[LLHLLH] noun a spider web

[L] verb, transitive help; contribute (money, food, labor)

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

[LLH] verb, intransitive lament, complain, regret

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HH] verb, transitive grab as much as possible with one hand

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

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

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

[LL] verb, transitive hurt a sore place by accident

[LF] noun your husband

[HF] noun slavery (var. ufʌn)

[HF] noun house

[HF] noun animal (gen term), meat

[HF] noun noise

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, transitive suck

[HH] verb, intransitive shine (of the sun or moon)

[L] verb, intransitive wilt, melt, dissolve, digest; become lazy, become weak

[H] verb, intransitive become full; swell

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)