Ibibio English

[LLL] noun a kind of yam formerly only planted by women, water yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun oil

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[LHH] noun corpse, cadaver

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun crocodile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun table

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLHL] noun praying mantis

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive count, reckon, esteem

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive fall off, snap off, drop off (e.g. a ripe or dead fruit), fall off/out (e.g. hair, teeth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

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[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

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

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[LL] noun flying squirrel.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun buttocks, anus; bottom.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun denial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun heel of the foot.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] number two

(Igbo) abụọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L.LH.HL] adjective bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun; adjective wealth, rich person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number six

(Igbo) isii

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive roast, fry (a food to make it dry or crisp esp groundnuts in sand, gari in a pot); season a new pot by placing it on the fire

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

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

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive perceive, feel, sense, taste, hear; understand; listen to, heed; respond to

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive alter, change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive hop on one leg, limp.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun government; white colonial officer; English consul

[LLLH] noun cowrie shell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun wrestling, wrestling bout

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become patient; hold back, have control

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive contort the face or mouth to show disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF HL] noun skin of the vagina

[LLL HL] noun a secluded area in the water thickly covered with water plants ( a person can go in there to bathe)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HF] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

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

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHHH] noun maze; confusing place full of turns and corners

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

[HHH] noun dirt; a sticky substance (esp. one a person finds on his clothes and doesn’t know where it came from)

[LLH] noun, adjective corpse (esp. one that is dried up and distasteful); adjective: dead; worthless, good for nothing; vile, evil

[LL] noun the area around the ears and under the jaw

[LLH] noun basket

[LLL] noun an insect of the grasshopper type, it is tan, grey or mottled

[LLLL] noun a kind of small rodent with a long snout

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[L] verb, transitive mark property to identify it or to keep people or evil away (eg. put a talisman tied in red string on one’s fruit trees so no one will take the fruit)

[HH] verb, transitive taunt, sneer at; makean open-eye, make a face, stick out the tongue, to say it serves you right, I told you

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[HL] noun sugar (possibly English loanword)

[LH] verb, intransitive faint, lose consciousness; become lowered

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LL] noun room

[LL] noun grave

[HH] noun friend

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LL] noun your mother

[HF] noun a kind of tree with soft wood, probably Alstonia congensis (Dalziel)

[HHHH] noun blood

[LLL] numeral four

[HF] adverb slow, with care

[HH] noun the sun

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

[LHH] noun needle

[HF] noun voice, order, edict

[HH] verb, intransitive become light in weight

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

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive move about, become restless, fidget; move about, wriggle

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places

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