Ibibio English

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun chameleon

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun bee

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[HH] noun group, flock, herd

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[L] verb, intransitive become cruel, mean, mischievous, destructive

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] become broken, break(of its own accord)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[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)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive play

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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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive turn a deaf ear towards, not anwer, ignore

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] verb, intransitive move about here and there doing many things at once, look busy, become busy

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive drag, draw; pl make a drawing, draw many lines; massage.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive hide

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[HF] noun rain.

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

[HH] noun phantom, ghost of ancestors. in traditional government, the police arm, now a society (to which nearly all the men belong) which has masquerades at various times of year such as the turning of the year and the harvest of new yam.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

noun copulation

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[HH] noun a kind of tree bearing an edible nut, Coula edulis (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become lazy.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive uncover, take off.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive fan, wave, swing; iv hover, float in the air.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun medicine, cure, poison, talisman, juju.

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

[HHL] noun a sore, septic wound

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun bird (generic term)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun stone, mile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun fish (general)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun blood

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive stand on tiptoe, stretch to see something high; become high, raised up (esp. of the ground or of something which should be flat)

[HH] verb, intransitive become high, tall, elevated

[HH] verb, transitive push a heavy object for a distance; shove away from a distance (as an insect with a long stick); wheel, roll, push something on wheels (pl. of kpat)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive talk rubbish; brag; talk lewdly, vulgarly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive become big

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LLH] verb, transitive become tough, hard (of meat, rubber, wood)

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] ideophone sound of abodom being played with bamboo sticks in sending a message

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive call, read aloud, invite

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LL] verb, transitive close; shut in, confine; completely (emphatic)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, intransitive become dark, black

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, intransitive snap, break from too much strain (of a rope); sg only break away, leave a place and rush to another

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive remove from a hook, unhang (rev. of kọọn̄ [HH])

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH HDH] noun ring

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun penis, some speakers say that this is a polite term, others that it is slang, still others that it is a childs word

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun a seat without a back

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[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH HL] noun shin

[HHH] noun button

[LLH] question where?

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive become stupid

[HHHH] noun food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHHH] adjective toughness and coarseness in texture due to exposure to the sun or other causes

[HF] noun a kind of white clay from the river, it is eaten, used as a treatment for diarrhea, used as a whitewash, and is rubbed on the body for decortion or against heat rash

[HHH] noun race, competition

[HLHHH] noun disorder

[HLHH] noun little bits of mischief, pranks, crafty, manipulations

[HLHHH] noun a struggle

[HF] noun slander, gossip

[HH] verb, transitive disappear; sg only dive

[LHH] noun calamity

[LHH] noun calamity

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

[LLL] noun a small insect found around palm wine

[LL] adjective small, few

[HH] noun a women’s society

[HLF] noun athlete’s foot

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

[HH] verb, intransitive flicker; transitive: flash a light on and off

[LHH] noun a shrine

[LH] verb, transitive tickle

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

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

[L] verb, transitive reach, get to, arrive at

[HH] verb, transitive pierce through, make a hole, carve out (pl. of tịp)

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

[HH] verb, transitive tickle

[HH] verb, transitive eat a little bit at a time, pick up and eat tiny bits of food (such as grains of rice), pick tiny leaves

[HH] noun weight

[LHF] noun fourth-born son

[LHF] noun third-born son

[LHDH] noun fourth-born son

[LHH] noun slap

[LLL HHL] noun fourth-born son

[HH] noun oppression

[HF] noun smell, odor

[LHH] adjective many, much

[LL] noun fufu, anything pounded for fufu, anything cut with the fingers from a mass and swallowed in balls along with afere (soup)

[HH] noun ear

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

[H] verb, transitive burn, sting (as pepper, iodine)

[H] verb, transitive having the urge to sleep

[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)

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive adhere. stick, become sticky; hang; hang oneself; insist, persist; hang on to; pester; persecute; hate

[HH] verb, transitive cause choking, dizziness

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