Ibibio English

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL HF] noun town, village

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] adjective big, huge

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun priest

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun practitioner, specialist, expert

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun crying, weeping

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become in need of, get into straits about (refer to a chronic or long term situation or deprivation); straiten, put into straits

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become cooked, done(of food)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, intransitive become disordered, scattered, disheveled, disrupted

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive father a child

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive bury

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive ripen, become ripe, red (plural of dat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive sink

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive scratch, itch

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive tell

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 copulation.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun message; fame.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive shrink, become shrunken (of fruits, people).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun calabash (gen term), Lagenaria vulgaris (Dalziel); a calabash container; any small container to drink from; a standard measure (about a cup) for gari, rice, beans.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH LH] adjective worthless; fruitless; in vain

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun fishing grounds, fishing area

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun time

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[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun kernel (esp. oil palm kernel); stone (of a fruit)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] number three

(Igbo) atọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

(Igbo) asaa

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun foot race, running

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun cassava (the term includes varieties of Manihot utilissima and Dioscorea dumetorum

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

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

[HHH] verb, transitive promise, vow (involves an exchange, something given for something done)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pierce, stab, sew

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HH] transitive verb call, invite, read

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive become near, stay near; approach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made by someone walking in studded shoes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive chop

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[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

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, intransitive; verb, transitive become finished; finished

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] noun banana

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun neigbour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun itch, rash, crawcraw

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun grace, favour

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun yesterday (in a context of past), tomorrow (in a context of future), (loosely) two or three days in the past or future.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHH] noun wheel (bare without a tire)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun palm wine, strong alcohol

[LH] roar (of thunder)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] verb, intransitive become wealthy

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[LHH] noun a plant with a fine bark which is scraped off to mae twine, wild hibiscus

[LLHL] adjective leaky (var. ndre ndre, ndidIt, ndidIt)

[HLL] noun sweat (var. ibikpO, ibibiak, adikpO)

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

[LL] noun sore, septic wound

[LH] verb, intransitive converse, tell, inform

[L] verb, intransitive become straight; become right, correct

[LH] noun my father

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

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

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

[LHH] adjective wasted, empty, not being put to use, free

[LLL] noun a kind of insect, a larva

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

[L] verb, intransitive become black

[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

[HHHH] verb, intransitive make a sound of disgust, disapproval, impatience, contempt (var. siama)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[LL] verb, transitive take fire, carry fire

[H] verb, transitive scrub, rub briskly (teeth, the body, a pot), rub off, rub together, erase, wipe, rub with a slow motion, massage

[HH] preposition, conjunction since, starting from (time only)

[HH] verb, transitive to exclaim

[LHLL] noun rice

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHH] noun fifth-born son

[LHH] noun right (direction)

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

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[HF] noun noise

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

[LH] verb, intransitive sneeze

[H] verb, transitive suck

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

[H] verb, transitive turn, mix, stir

[LL] verb, transitive cook a very small quantity of rich afere (soup) (until it is very hot) (pl. of jọk)