Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun a small shrimp, crayfish

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun man, male

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun shoulder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun the first-born son

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a fence of shrubbery planted to indicate a boundary and provide privacy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun person, human being; someone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of reed; a sleeping mat woven from reed

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

[HH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive break

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[L] verb, transitive cook by burying in hot ashes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

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[H] verb, intransitive stand

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive rejoice, become happy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] adverb there, in that place, (near the person spoken to), there

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive shout at, bawl at, scold; shock.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun monkey

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

[LHH] noun a kind of bitter fruit taken like kola, bitter kola, Garcinia kola (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a loan

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[HH] verb, transitive turn, twist, twirl, spin; iv turn (of a wheel); repeat (always followed by another verb).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun bitter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun rope.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun crab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive cross over, step over, step over something high so that one has to lift ones leg; empty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[LLH] verb, transitive become late; take a long time; continue in time

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive; verb, transitive change, become different, differ, vary

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, intransitive bark, growl (of a dog); speak in an angry or pompous manner

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, transitive walk here and there, zigzag

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHHH] noun [Efik] a creature (fish? serpent?) which stretches the whole length of a river or sea

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover, close with a cover or lid; heap up

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun cup (esp. a metal or enamel cup); cigarette tin or other container used as a unit of measure for beans, rice, gari

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

[LL] verb, transitive eat palm fruit, a palm kernel, or a bit of meat by putting it in the mouth and turning it about slowly removing the flesh

[LLLH] noun centipede

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun the process of fattening a woman prior to marriage; the woman who undergoes the process

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun engagement (before marriage)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

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[HH] verb, transitive; verb, intransitive ignore, delay in responding

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun periwinkle

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[HHHL] noun a kind of plant with small bitter fruits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHLHHHL] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLHLL] noun butterfly

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

[HHHH] noun a dish of ground beans with oil, pepper and other condiment steamed in leaves (Yoruba)

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HD] adverb also, too

[HF] noun a kind of small fish

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

[LL] ideophone sound of oil dropped in the fire

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[LLLH] adjective light in weight

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive have; intransitive: sg only have to, must; appear to be, exist

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

[HH] noun the young of an animal

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

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

[HHHH] noun a percussion instrument

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LHH] noun a shrine

[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 foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from; put forth, bring forth

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

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LH] noun calamity

[HH] noun weavil

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LH] noun fishing spear

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[LH] noun fishhook

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[LLH] verb, intransitive become peeled off, become faded

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