Ibibio English

[LLH] noun mens robes

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun valley, abyss, chasm, gorge

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[HHH] noun hunger

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[HF] noun dust

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[HHL] noun man, male

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[HHHH] noun cold, cattarrh

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

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[HH] noun a kind of black stinging ant which lives in palm trees

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[LLL] noun wasp

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[LLL HLL] noun strong waves, sea currents, tempest

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[HHHH] adjective male (used with all animal names except those few which have a special word for the male); yielding little, unproductive

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[H] verb, intransitive become cheap due to oversupply, go aground(of a boat)

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[LL] verb, intransitive creep, spread, cove (of vines, plants sp. when a yam covers its supporting stick with many leaves and branches)

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[HH] verb, intransitive become rotten to the semi-liquid state, become decomposed, disintegrated (of an orange, a wet cracker, a dead body), become wet and messy, wet and sloppy, become watery to the point of nearly falling out

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive cook, prepare food (usually liquid food)

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[LH] verb, intransitive set off, depart, leave, move away, become wild, troublesome (of a child)

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[HH] verb, transitive eat

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[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

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

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

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[HH] noun walking stick.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHL] noun rheumatism.

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[HHH] noun dog.

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[HHH] verb, transitive torture.

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

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

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[LH] noun someone shorter than normal. a stunted person

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[HF] noun laughter

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[LLL] number four

(Igbo) anọ

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[HDH] noun bird (generic term)

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[LLL] noun; adjective greed; greedy person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun dizziness, faintness

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun earth, land, ground, floor, country, a council of elders

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] noun a blow with the fist; a charm which enables the wearer to strike powerful blows

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

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[HF] noun advice

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[HLHL] noun heel of the foot

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[HHL] noun garbage pit, refuse pit

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[LHH] noun caterpillar (general term)

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[LF] noun impotent man

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

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[HH] noun hip joint

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[HH] verb, intransitive show off, become pompous

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[HH] verb, transitive/ verb, intransitive close the eyes and turn the head aside in a gesture of disapproval

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[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

[LL] verb, transitive stand in a relative position.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

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[LL] verb, transitive learn; teach

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[LH] verb, transitive bend over so as to expose the buttocks

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive make jittery movements as though one had ants in ones clothing; move very fast on ones toes in a jittery way (i.e. walk like a European); swagger, strut to show off

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HHH] verb, intransitive become curved, crooked, not straight (esp of a road or branch of a tree)

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[HH] verb, transitive scrape, scrape off, shave

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[HH] verb, transitive cover (esp obscure from view)

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[L] verb, transitive retch, vomit gen used w ibọk medicine, udia food

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

[HHH] noun hunger

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun race

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HD] interjection please

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[LL] verb, transitive choose, select (pl. of mek)

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[HHL] noun a kind of edible frog (prob a water frog)

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[LH HD] noun ring

[HH] noun a kind of tree which blooms in dry season, its leaves are used for afere

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[HHH] adverb a small, hard, round objects, seed, kernel, grain

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[HHF] noun a kind of white yam

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH HL] noun eyebrow

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHDHHF] noun butterfly

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LF] noun nasal mucus, phlegm

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[LLL] noun prison, jail, detention

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] pronoun my

[LHH] noun a kind of small bush rat, the king of rats

[LH] noun flavour, taste (an esp. flavored and elusive one); marrow

[HLHHH] noun effort, struggling; the matrimonial state

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

[LH] noun a small plant, its leaves are irritating to the skin, Urera mannii

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

[LLH] verb, transitive peep into (a matter, house); peep out (without being noticed), peep at

[H] verb, transitive drink; smoke

[LH] noun [Eng] cigarette

[HH] verb, transitive take out, remove, remove from

[H] verb, transitive chew, eat something hard or chewable (meat, nuts, coconut). chew, eat away (of diseases that destroy tissue); burn

[HHHH] verb, intransitive scream, shout at, often with mkpo (var. tiara)

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

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

[LL] conjunction, adverb, preposition very much, until, so that

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

[LH] verb, transitive stop from happening, thwart, blunt

[LL] verb, transitive curse, use abusive words (pl. of tọk)

[HDH] noun some

[HF] noun strength

[LHH] noun right (direction)

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

[HF HF] adverb slowly, carefully

[HF] noun skill, talent

[LLL] noun congealed secretions

[LH] noun fishhook

[HH] noun life, existence, state of being alive, life style, habits

[HF] noun noise

[LL] verb, intransitive slither, move with a gliding movement, move like a snake or rope, move like a jellylike substance

[HH] verb, transitive sharpen on a leather strop