Ibibio English

[LLL] noun thunder

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun famine; limestone (Calcium Carbonate)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun circle formation for a game or dance

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHHH] noun compound (gen. a large one with people living in it, the term suggests a rich man’s compound)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun wife, female

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun bitter leaf, gall bladder; bile

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HFHF] noun measles

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] adjective not even, even, none

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive ask, ask for

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, transitive rinse

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive lick (a spoon or the fingers in eating), eat something soft of liquid with a spoon or fingers

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive rev. of dian take away, separate two things that are stuck together, separate out from; change money

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive cause disgust

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive weave, knit, spin

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive tell

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun tongue.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun an uncircumcised man or woman.

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

[L] ideophone sound made by a ripe pawpaw or avocado when it falls to the ground.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, intransitive become covered; cover oneself (with a cloth or blanket); become sad, mourn.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive bother, harass, worry.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLLL] noun state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of being shrivelled from immersion in water.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun gorilla (Goldie baboon, chimpanzee).

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun foot

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLH] verb, intransitive become called, named, bear a name

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

[LL] ideophone sound of shoes with heels

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive crack (nut, palm kernels) with a stone

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive rev. of kpaga: uncross, separate things that are joined together, unbutton, unbuckle.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] verb, transitive lift something very heavy and of huge girth requiring both arms around it; try to carry something heavier than one is capable of, take on more than one can manage

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive pay

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive plead, plead with, entreat.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, transitive soil, dirty

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, intransitive go a long distance on foot; limp

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive peel with a knife; sharpen to a point (as a stick, an arrow)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive rev of kup open a cover or lid

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive grind between two stones (small things such as beans, pepper); w pl kọọk cure, heal, perform juju for curing and certain other purposes (implies grinding medicines)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun scar, welt

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun cockroach

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHDH] noun a kind of small white mushroom

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HLL] noun small hard balls of excrement

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H.HL.L] noun a kind small house bat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLH] noun trouble, problem, ruckus, commotion

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun a short skirt of multi-colored raffia strung on a rope, it used to be worn in the fattening house because the body of the woman being fattening was smeared with oil and iduot and a dress would be ruined, now worn as an ordinary skirt; petticoat (NkpIn).

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

[HL] interj. what

[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

[LLH] adverb perhaps

[LH] conjunction so, so that

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

[HL] noun knuckle

[HHH] noun postherd

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

[H] verb, transitive show teeth

[LF] noun my grandmother

[LLLL] noun rust

[LLH] noun basket

[LF LL] noun dorsal fin of a fish

[HLL] noun welts from a beating

[HH] verb, transitive lick, lick off

[LHH] noun a shrine

[HH] verb, transitive extinguish (a light, a fire) intransitive: go out, become extinguished (of a light, a fire)

[LF] noun market day

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] verb, transitive scratch the ground (of an animal, of children at play); toss away what is rejected from a sorting process (pl. of sara)

[LH] verb, intransitive become dizzy

[HHH] verb, intransitive become foolish, stupid (pl. of sịme)

[HH] verb, transitive chop

[HH] verb, intransitive walk in a slow, lazy, sloppy, or stealthy manner

[LL] ideophone describes a staggering walk

[L] verb, transitive taste liquid, take a sip, sip

[LH] verb, intransitive become sluggish

[HH] verb, intransitive become clouded, unclear (in color); become murky, unclear (of liquids); become dusty (of clothes or something that can be shaken out)

[LF] noun the edible kernel of the raffia palm fruit

[LLL] noun room

[LL] noun room

[LF] noun your husband

[LL] noun a pit dug to catch rainwater

[LHH] noun byword, slang phrase, scandal

[HH] noun miser, tight-fisted person

[HF] noun chicken, fowl

[LL] noun second-born daughter

[HD] phrase What day?

[LH] noun your father

[LHF] noun your grandfather

[HH] verb, transitive deceive

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

[LL] verb, transitive steal

[HH] verb, intransitive satisfy (with food, information)

[HHH] verb, transitive spread with the palm of the hand (mud, plaster, water on the wall or floor)