Ibibio English

[LLL] noun God, god

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun square basket woven of cane or rattan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHD] noun a dye made from the juice of the fruit or seeds of a plant and colored with charcoal, it is used by women for body decoration; the tree from which the dye comes, Indogofera

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] subj, obj. pronoun he, she, it, him, her, it

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of large antelope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun rectum, piles (also used as a curse).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun hiccup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become mouldy (of coconut, palm kernel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun piassava, the fiber from the trunk of ukOt (rafia palm).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun urine.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective burnt, scorched

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun year

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neck, throat; desire, greed

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive cut palm fruit from the cluster when there are very few remaining

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicine)

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun pity, sympathy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] adjective mouldy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun penis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun piece (variants: mkprok; nkprok).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun path, narrow place, space, gap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF LL] noun a childrens game in which sticks are passed around quickly and players try not to accumulate them

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] adjective without response

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[LLL] noun wickedness, maliciousness

[LH] noun fear

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive dance; fawn on

[L] verb, intransitive become pleasant, enjoyable, sweet

[LHH] noun calamity

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

[LLL] noun intestines

[HFHF] noun smallpox

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

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

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[L] verb, transitive sell

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

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

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[LH] verb, intransitive become clear, light, bright; fig become clear, understandable; become large, wide; expand; transitive: clear (as a road); expand, enlarge

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[H] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

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

[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 take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[HH] verb, transitive cluck at to show annoyace or disgust

[LH] verb, intransitive sit, stay; appear, seem

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

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[HH] noun friend

[LL] noun your mother

[LH] noun loving, likeness

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[HH] verb, transitive startle, surprise, take unawares (esp of an unexpected visitor)

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fast

[LL] verb, transitive hit (esp. with a stick, also with hand or fist)

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)