Ibibio English

[HHL] noun umbilical cord

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

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[HHL] noun sexual organ of snail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun table

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[LH] noun lizard

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[HHF] adjective cold

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[H] verb, intransitive be in a place, exist; seem, appear to be

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hunger

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[H] verb, transitive make round, roundish(rather wet thing esp by putting eg clay, fufu)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become broken, break (of its own accord), usually a long thin object such as a bone or a stick, break up in confusion (of a gathering)

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

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[LH] verb, transitive imitate

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[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

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[LH] verb, intransitive become quiet, calm, lonely (of a place, of wind or water)

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

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun disease involving swelling of the testes; an insult (if a person called another person efik and make a fist it is a challenge to fight).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun sole, palm (of hand or feet).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun side whiskers, side burns.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun the first shoost of a plant to come up.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun saliva.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cover (a person with a blanket, food with a cloth, a house with a roof, a hole with dirt, but not used for cover something with its own cover) cf kup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove pressure, stop pressing down see fige.

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[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun crazyness, mad person.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun standing; height, stature, position; moment in time, time, time when.

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners; a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

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[LLL] noun a leech; a kind of fish with long needle-like mouth

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun impotent man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive stir (as in soup)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hold in the arms or hands; have, keep; owe; use; treat, behave towards

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLF] noun [Eng] cigarette

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ebb (of the tide)

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[HHH] verb, intransitive tie or wrap a cloth around ones own loins or waist

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[HH] verb, transitive become puckered (of the mouth from acid, of the hands from immersion in water).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive die, perish; become exhausted, overcome; fade; heal (pl. of kpa)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive slow down and walk carefully (as when one has seen something dangerous).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat, beg.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive pull out, pluck (hari, feathers); uproot (roots, mushrooms)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] ideophone sound of the eka ibit (a large drum)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of the fall of a knife or spoon, or of an enamel plate

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife (as kola, ndiya, cassava); unlock; bleach.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

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

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[H] verb, transitive copulate

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

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[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive (iv) become set (of a trap), become piled up, heaped up; (tv) cary piled up (a stack of bulky things such as books or firewood, walking is impeded)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pl people

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

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[HH] verb, intransitive become accustomed to, familiar with, associated with;

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[HF] noun cockroach

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

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[LHH HL] noun the kernel of the unripe oil palm fruit, the shell is soft and can be broken with the teeth.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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

[HL] interj. what

[HHH] noun button

[LLL] noun a kind of palm oil obtained by burning the palm kernel, its uses include pomade for the skin, medicine for boils and wounds, antidote for poison, (taken as an emetic), protection against juju

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LH] noun dew, moisture on leaves

[LLLH] noun business

[HHH] adjective new

[LHL LL] noun a kind of plant, its leaf is ground up and used to treat yews

[HHHH] noun a corner inside a house

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[LHH] noun scum

[LL] pronoun we, us, our

[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

[HH] ideophone sound of plantain frying in oil

[HHHH] noun bell, clock, hour

[HHHH] noun young curled cocyam leaf

[HF LL] noun a kind of wire grass, Bahama grass (Adams)

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[HHHH] verb, transitive irritate the throat and back of the mouth (as raw of insufficiently cooked yam or coco yam) (var. sian)

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HH] verb, transitive block, plug, stop up, obstruct

[HH] verb, transitive praise, flatter, play up to

[LL] verb, intransitive become supple

[LL] verb, transitive polish, scrub; grate (pl. of tʌk)

[H] verb, intransitive increase

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[LHH] noun needle

[L] verb, transitive tear, rend, scratch, tear off, tear up, tear out; pay a debt in installments