Ibibio English

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun squirrel

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] adjective new

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective all, every

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] quantifier other, another, more

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive test, examine, measure, weigh

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive enter, go into, join (a society of the modern type that involves only a simple process)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive hide, hide oneself, become hidden

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HH] noun hare; a person fond of sleeping.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun mockery.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun eulogy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become stuck in, wedge in, fixed between; tv carry under the arm.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive run, run away.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become white.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove water with a bowl from where it is not wanted (esp bail out a boat), scoop liquid from one container to another.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive roast; set fire to; distill

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun body (of a human being, an animal, fruit, nut), self (used as a reflexive). aj (?) emphatic, even, particular, the very.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun stream.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a cripple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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

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

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

[HH] ideophone sound of a palm kernel or ekOm nut when it is cracked with a stone; sound made by snapping the fingers; sound made in a gun when it fails to fire because the powder is wet.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive catch in the hands (plural of kpoppo)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive eat in tiny bits, nibble at, tear into bits, pick at (a sore).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive push aside with disdain, postpone, shake off responsibility

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive cough

[LLHH] noun European

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[LL] noun side, edge

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

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[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

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun waste material left after sifting or straining something dry (esp cassava)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun a kind of caterpillar, found at the top of oil palm trees, edible

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH HL] noun eyeball

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHD] noun groundnut

[LL] conjunction and, with (variants: ye; ndo; mma)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun picture, photo, film, spectacle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[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

[LH] noun my father

[HF] noun hanger, peg on the wall for hanging things

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff (var. n̄uune)

[HH] verb, intransitive whine (of a child)

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LL] noun my mother

[LF] noun my grandmother

[HHL] noun starch (for laundry)

[LHL] noun [Eng] spirit (used in Christian church services) (var. sịbidịt)

[HH] verb, transitive remove a plug, an obstacle, unblock;

[HH] verb, intransitive become quick, early, often; become sharp

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

[LH] noun a kind of grey rock which is crushed to a powder and used as a cosmetic for the eyes

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[L] verb, intransitive fail to mature, fail to develop fully, fall short of expectations; miss out

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

[HF] noun trouble

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LH] noun right (direction)

[HH] noun rope

[HLL] adverb completely

[HF] adjective big, old (of a person)

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

[LH] noun bread, biscuit

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

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

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

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop

[HH] verb, intransitive become sufficient, up to the mark

[HHH] verb, transitive shake liquid in a bowl to distribute it evenly over the surface