Ibibio English

[LL] number forty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a bundle, a bundle of long, stiff objects, a bundle of twenty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun a wooden gong, usually made from a section of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHF] noun world

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun root

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] adjective big, huge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fight

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun child, offspring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive be early, arrive early, do something early

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive expect, hope, anticipate

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive lean something against, place against

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] verb, transitive deceive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become black, become ripe

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive share, divide among

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive light, kindle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive fall, fall down

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive leak, leak out, run out(of liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive dig up, dig (esp root crops), harvest (root crops)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun the back (anat).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tomach; a bag-like object esp one containing air; a musical instrument of the accordian type; a kind of thumb piano made of wood of calabash with metal keys; a play in which the thumb piano is used.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tree, any plant with a woody stem, wood.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive overlook, let off, let go, forgive.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun women, wives

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun wall

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun arrow.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun witchcraft, witch.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun tail

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLLL] number seven (a sacred number in Ibibio)

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of fish with poisonous spines

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun hip joint

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become suitable, appropriate; fit; measure up to a standard; become complete; become enough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive pull up, hoist up, draw in (as in a fishing net)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive restrain, prohibit, stop; warn; rebuke (pl. of kpan)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

[HH] verb, transitive loosen, untie, unwrap, unfasten, dismantle (plural of kpọk)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive peel with hand or knife, unlock

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive hit, beat, hollow or flat sounds

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive space out (in planting)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] verb, intransitive cough

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HD] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun burnt wood; the burnt wood left on the ground after a piece of farmland has been burned for planting

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stalk, the place where fruits are attached

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] noun a seat without a back

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun handcuffs, leg cuffs, shackles

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become watery, thin and soft

[LHD] noun epilepsy, an epileptic

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

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

[LH] interrogative what

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

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[LL] adjective small, few

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[HHH] noun thorn, splinter, nail (fastener), needle

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

[HF] noun leaf; in its narrowest sense the term applies to leaves that are distributed along a stem in such a way that a person can remove several of them at a time by running his hand along the stem

[LLH] adjective granular, in grains

[LL] verb, intransitive become black

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[HH] noun weeds, grass

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

[H] pronoun what, who which

[HL] noun shirt

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

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

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

[HH] verb, intransitive become impaled, skewered, stuck onto a sharp object

[H] verb, intransitive beat, pound (esp food in a mortar, clothes on a log)

[H] verb, transitive to contribute

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[HDH] noun tsetse fly

[LHH] adjective buying, shopping

[HF] noun trouble

[LH] noun the second-born son

[HH] noun leg and/or foot; bottom, base; elongation, extension, movement, means, mode

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HF] noun skill, talent

[L] verb, transitive kill

[LH] verb, transitive lose feathers

[H] verb, intransitive swim; become loose

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

[HH] verb, intransitive talk a lot, chatter, become unable to contain anything or keep a secret

[HH] verb, transitive make an announcement in several places