Ibibio English

[H.HL] noun shame

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun king

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] quantitative other, another, more

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun cloth, clothes

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

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun python

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] adjective stranger, visitor, sojourner, immigrant

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a stomach ache with diarrhea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHH] noun a strong wind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive refer to someone or mention someone’s name in a conversation, criticize, gossip; divide/share items among many people; classify items

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive stop, cease, conclude,; tv bring to conclusion; decide

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive spread out, lay flat, lay down (mats, tiles, carpet, cloth)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive stand

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive intend, wish.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive to fool around.

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, transitive tell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun a kind of slug found on plantain leaves.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun rain.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a single (or double?) pronged metal gong.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun a kind of large edible snail.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun the olden days, ancient past; time immemorial.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun drum.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun lice (pl. of ndaN).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun men (pl. of owodeen).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun whistling

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive rise, puff, swell (of rice in cooking, of bread); become conceited, swell-headed

[LL] ideophone said to show when one is completely ignored.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[L] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive cut with a glancing motion (as in scraping bark from a tree, peeling the rotten part from a yam, shaping a pestle out of wood).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive become loose, untied, unfastened; fall apart

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive hang (on a hook, peg, line); spread out to dry; hook, link, lock, entangle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hang (an object on a hook, around a person’s neck, cloth pot to dry)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun side, edge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk cautiously as when one sees danger, or because of mud

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun outer part of the vagina - labia majora

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[HH] noun a diseased condition of the skin on the legs involving pus filled swellings and cracking of the skin

[LLH] verb, transitive smell, sniff

[HH] verb, transitive shake, bounce a person as on a couch

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LH] verb, intransitive be tilted, bent stiffly over

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LH] noun over there, yonder (refers to a narrow area)

[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)

[H] ideophone describes a sudden action

[HL] noun sixpence

[L] verb, intransitive become enough, sufficient, complete

[L] ideophone sound of wood being cut

[LH] verb, transitive dip out, ladle out (with a spoon or the hand); beckon with the hand, touch slightly to get someone’s attention

[H] verb, transitive spread, loosen, untie, unlock, unwind, open, melt

[HH] verb, transitive make a knot, tie around and knot

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

[HHH] verb, transitive disturb, disorder (the vegetation in passing by, the water entering it)

[L] verb, transitive grate

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[LF] noun your husband

[LHLL] noun rice

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHH] noun left (direction)

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[HF] noun skill, talent

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[HH] verb, transitive pinch

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate