Ibibio English

[HF] noun oil

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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[LLL] noun discrimination

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[LL] noun path in the bush

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[HHF] noun chameleon

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[LL] noun the first wife

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[LHH] noun top, apex

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[L] verb, transitive join a society, undergo the initiation for a society

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[L] verb, transitive watch out for; wait to do harm to; watch over, protect, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive cut through with a single stroke

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[L] verb, transitive reveal a secret, narrate a story, convey information, inform, relate, (all have derogatory connotation)

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

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

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

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[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HH] noun knee.

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[LF] noun randmother (maternal or paternal).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun greeting.

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[LHH] noun contribution, contributive society.

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[LL] verb, transitive climb a large tree by putting the arms around it and moving up on the belly, shinny up a pole (pl. of fap).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive remove from the mouth what one has been sucking or holding there.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun muteness, dumbness; a mute

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[HHF] noun a kind tuber with mushrooms growing on it, usked in preparing ikpan

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

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

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[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] prep. of time, place, cause, manner

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[HH] verb, transitive take an enema

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[HH] verb, intransitive walk on the balls of the feet, walk on tiptoe

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LH] verb, transitive construct a framework

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[LL] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive watch, guard, look after.

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive catch sight of (see)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive let fall from the mouth, spit out (food, not liquid)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, remove what hangs; unentangle (esp. wipe away strands of cobweb) (rev. of kọp [L])

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

[H] verb, transitive like, love (can be used as a euphemism for sex)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HDH] noun piece, half piece

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[LLLH] noun centipede

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[HHL] noun dew dripping from the trees

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[LLL] noun sugar cane, Saccarum officinarum (Dalziel)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLH] noun gooseflesh

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

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[L] verb, transitive choose, select

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[LH HDH] noun ring

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[LHLH] noun a kind of plant with similar properties to akpaakpa ikpaaRa (the plants that if pulled out gets its roots back to the ground and grows up again)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun shout, scream, outcry

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[H.HL] noun sandfly

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a seat without a back

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[HHH] noun a construction of palm fronds gen. near a house or against a fence, used for storing yam or cocoyam

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLHH] noun jostling; a kind of game in which children lean against each other

[LLLH] noun evening (dusk till dawn) (var. mbubịre)

[HHHH] noun bedbug, cimex rotundata (in Ibibio bugs pinch rather than bite)

[HD] noun young woman (address or referent), a term of endearment for a young woman

[HH] noun a diseased condition of poultry in which little quill feathers begin to grow all over the body

[HH] noun ochre, a kind of clay used for plastering walls, for floor or wall decoration, and for body decoration

[HF HL] noun smoke; steamboat, ship

[LLHL] adjective stunted, blunt, undercooked (var. iteetịp, iteitịp)

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

[LL] noun children, young of animals

[LLH] noun jest, joke, a story that pokes fun, clowning

[LLH] noun basket

[HHH] noun a lump (of meat, a clay), a mass; a nest made by ants

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

[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] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive bear fruit

[LLH] verb, intransitive wander around, walk about (pl. of san̄a)

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive shift, make room, move aside, jerk, make a fuss (pl. of sịkke)

[LL] verb, transitive put down, set down (a pot on the fire); cook, boil, prepare afere (soup) (pl. of tem)

[LH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become slack, loose, reduced; slacks loosen; slacken, loosen, lower, reduce in height

[LH] verb, transitive explain, direct, tell how

[HHH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive whistle

[HH] verb, transitive awaken

[L] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words

[L] verb, transitive warn against; give information, inform

[LL] noun a pit dug in the ground, a ditch

[LHH] noun slap

[HH] noun oppression

[LF] noun cassava fufu, it has no smell due to being well soaked before cooking

[HH] noun road, way; doorway, door; habit, custom

[LLH] noun spider web

[L] verb, transitive write

[HL] adverb yet, then

[H] verb, transitive wash; rub on, apply (oil, ointment); lick

[HH] verb, intransitive wander (aimlessly or with a purpose), go here and there (of one who has many places to go and many things to do)

[L] verb, transitive doubt, surprise

[HH] verb, transitive saw, cut with a sawing motion (an animal’s throat, or in shredding certain leaves such as afan̄)(pl. of jọọk)

[HHH] verb, transitive dance with specific steps, dance a specific dance, generally a leisurely a dance with outstretched arms