Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun basket

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

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun crying, weeping

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun rat, mouse (gen term).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun meat, rat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun millipede.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a small round leech found in dry mudflows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun debt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun cooking hearth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] number eight

(Igbo) asato

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive wander, go around, come and go; pl come and go and linger at a place

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive deny, refute, prove innocent

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number one

(Igbo) otu

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive wrap cloth around someone; fig buy cloth for elderly relations (pl. of kIn)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive draw water, scoop up liquid (from a stream, well, pot)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] interjection expression of concern, regret, apology

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive judge a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast on the horn of a small automobile.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive respect, esteem, honor, worship

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of a short blast of a launch horn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive become contrary (es. to show off)

[LL] ideophone sound of something very light falling on the ground

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive copulate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive hang, hang on, snag; become hooked on; become bent; pick at, bicker, harass; become a responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHHH] noun a large calabash used as a buoy for nets

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun button

[HD] adverb also, too

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

[LL] conjunction with, and

[LLL] adverb not even

[HHH] noun a freshwater swamp where raffia palms grow

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[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

[HH] noun face, front, future

[LH] verb, intransitive verbal aggression

[LH] verb, transitive squeeze (a fruit, a wet cloth). press (oil from ayop), milk

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LLHF] noun a plant with hot peppery fruit and leaves which are chewed esp with palm wine

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

[HHH] noun crust from burnt food

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

[LH] noun the hips, the area from the waist to the thigh

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[H] verb, transitive choke, cause choking (as water in the windpipe)

[HH] verb, transitive split, tear, cut up, divide; open; reveal, give an answer, give an explanation, mention (var. siak)

[HH] verb, intransitive become tough and coarse in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes and unable to be softened by cooking

[L] verb, intransitive be small

[LLH] verb, intransitive tattered, threadbare (pl. of tara)

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[L] verb, transitive sacrifice

[LL] verb, transitive lend; borrow

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

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