Ibibio English

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[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

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[LH] noun fence

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[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

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[LLL] noun pot

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[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

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[LHH] adjective real, genuine, important, very (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun needle

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[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

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[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

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

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[LLH] verb, transitive prepare, prepare for, get ready for

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[LL] adjective not even, even, none

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

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[L] verb, intransitive live, be alive

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[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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a day before business; Sunday; church service, church used in the names of certain market days (days of the week)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun nest.

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[LH] noun greeting.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun small; few; a little bit; smallness.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive get off balance (as when something which was balanced or supported slips or slants down), become slanted.

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[HH] verb, intransitive become hot, warm.

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[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

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[LH] verb, intransitive put on clothes, wear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

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[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

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[HLHL] noun red

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[HH] noun uncultivated land, brush (used with the name of certain flora and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a particular place (many place names contain the word iikọt)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

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

[L] verb, transitive cross, overlap, join, twist together, buckle, button.

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

[H] 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

[HH] verb, transitive cut through, cut off; pl chop.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the fall of a very heavy object such as a concrete block or a huge blag of flour, it falls with a thud.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive taunt

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive vomit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive preach, repeat over and over, moralize, advise

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[LL] verb, transitive knock

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[LH] noun the side of the face from temple to jaw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

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

[LLH] noun a creeping plant with tiny leaves, Selaginella scandens

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[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

[LLLH] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHLLH] adjective become soft, weak, easy

[LHL] adjective without response

[LLLH] noun business

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

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

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[HHH] noun postherd

[HH] noun face, front, future

[HF] noun the gums

[LLL LLL] adverb unsteadily

[LLL] noun a kind of small hot red or green pepper, Aframonum melegueta (Dalziel)

[LH] verb, transitive singe

[L] verb, transitive intimidate, pressurize

[LHL] noun a kind of imported fish, herring

[LH] verb, transitive open the eyes wide (to show seriousness and thus make a child comply)

[HHHF] noun kerosine (English loanword)

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun a kind of fruit, possibly breadfruit or soursop

[HHH] verb, intransitive become childish, act childish

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

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[H] verb, intransitive walk with small quick half running steps as when carrying a heavy load

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

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

[HL] noun address form for father, grandfather, old man

[H] verb, transitive hollow out

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[LHL] noun pigeon

[LLH] adjective steeped, soaked

[LL] noun grave

[HH] noun silk cotton tree, Ceina pentandra (Deizel)

[LLL] numeral four

[LHHL] number nine

(Igbo) eteghiete

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become many, become much

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

[H] verb, transitive cause a desire in, a craving for, a longing for

[HL] noun guava

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir