Ibibio English

[LHLL] noun rice

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun blessing

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHF] noun yawn

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a kind of large bush rat which tunnels in the ground

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become unsalted, unseasoned, become deficient

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

[LH] verb, intransitive lean against, lean on(for help)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tie, bind

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive imitate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive remove from the embers what has been roasting there (plural of dappa)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb order the night before in order to have the next day, book overnight, contact to but at a certain time (esp. palm wine, palm wine is generally bought in the morning when it is fresh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become a coward

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive come

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive add, put together, stick, glue

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, transitive strain, filter skim

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

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 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

[HH] noun war; a society which celebrates past war glories, joining the society was possible at one time only for a man who had taken several heads, now it is done symbolically.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun strange, alien.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a round basket with a cover and a handle used for drying fish or meat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun a kind of bird, black with a white throat and a large beak (Goldie a small hornbill)

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

[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive tell a fable, proverb, riddle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive follow, company; help

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL LL] one by one, one at a time, each to each (lit. keet e keet)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] adverb never ever.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] ideophone sound of bottle breaking (on the floor, on a basin, on metal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] ideophone sound of wood breaking (ideophone)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] ideophone sound made by ekOmO drums, the small one goes kpim or kpom or kum, the large one goes kpim or kum.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unrap, unfasten, dismantle.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive sweep; take the remains of something

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] verb, intransitive bleat (of a goat or sheep), low (of a cow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun cheek

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHL] noun armpit

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a kind of timber tree, Uapaca guineensis (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

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

[LHHH] noun skull

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HH] noun dream

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

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

[HH] noun face, front, future

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

[LL] noun brass or copper bangles worn around the legs from ankle to thigh by fattened brides

[LL] verb, transitive push, push over, push aside, shove

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

[LLLL] noun a large bird with long colorful feathers, it lives near the river; a play connected with ekpe society, by the old men of the society, many drums are used

[LH] noun color, many colors (ason cloth, or an animal)

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

[LL] noun bribe, dishonest business practices

[LH] verb, intransitive make faces to scare a child

[L] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive to be able to, know how to, master

[LLH] verb, transitive give (pl. of nọ)

[HH] verb, intransitive become agile, sprightly, lively, smart (in action or dress)

[L] verb, transitive speak a language esp. a foreign language; speak unintelligibly; translate

[HHH] verb, intransitive become alive (if animals and plants); become fresh (of meat, fish), become fresh, become healthy, fine (of a human being)

[HH] verb, transitive devastate, destroy, squander

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, disheveled; become smashed to bits

[LL] verb, transitive curse (a curse, a person). revile, insult (var. suun̄ọ, suen̄)

[H] verb, intransitive become gently, mild (of disposition, weather); adverb: quietly, safely

[H] verb, intransitive push as in childbirth

[L] verb, intransitive be small

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive weep, cry

[LLL] verb, transitive crumble

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

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[H] verb, transitive stick something onto a sharp object (e.g. a piece of meat onto a stick to be hunder over the fire to dry) (var. tot)

[HDH] noun some

[HF] noun strength, force, power

[LF] noun your grandmother

[HLL] adverb completely

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

[LLL] noun universe

[LH] noun guest, visitor

[HD] phrase What day?

[LL] noun life, destiny, universe, creation

[LHLHL] interjection a sound made to cheer or mock someone

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

[L] verb, intransitive do patiently, stay patiently, become patient

[HL] adverb yet, then