Ibibio English

[HHL HF] noun a tattler

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF HL] noun pimple

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HLL] noun sweat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun comb

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun discrimination

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHL] noun basket

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun fence

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive sharpen

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive take, pick up, carry

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the area of the lower abdomen around the bladder.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHF] noun spear.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF] noun comb, crest of a cockerel or certain snakes.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun civet cat.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun leopard or any of the big cats; a mens society so named from the way they use drums to imitate the sound of a leopard.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun a hump on the back.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun elephant.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun the liver, heart, chest, inside; mind.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun heart, gut.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, transitive press gently on a wound with a cloth soaked in hot water, some speakers use fik as the plural of fiik, see fiik, fike, fige.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[H] verb, intransitive become good.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun underpants.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHLL] noun electricity

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun tobacco, snuff.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a case

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun feces

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HF] noun laughter

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun deafness; deaf man

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LH] noun; adjective farm

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LF; HF] noun yam barn (a place where yams are stored for the next planting season)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun someone shorter than normal, a stunted person

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun base, foundation of esp. base of a tree trunk

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] adjective soft, fat, fleshy, tight (of fruit or a person’s flesh)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun nose

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHL] noun head; memory; sake, behalf

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LL] ideophone sound made when a person falls flat on his face or back.

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive prepare, get ready.

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: itoro ituen

[LL] verb, transitive gather together with the hands something that is in grains or particles (gari, rice, sand); collect into a bulk or heap

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive cut off the end of a periwinkle ( a kind of mollusk) so the fish can be sucked out.

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[H] adverb only

Speaker: itoro ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

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

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[HH] verb, intransitive exhibit pride

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHH] noun limb (of an animal); hoof; nails

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLL] noun pl people

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] verb, transitive hit, strike, beat

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

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

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HH] noun a natural covering, skin scab

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HHH] noun small sticks used to support young yam shoots

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LHHH] noun a long narrow lightweight knife used for cutting grass; the flat part of a knife; a knife without a handle

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[LLHL] noun young men (pl. of akparawa).

Speaker: Itoro Ituen

[LHLHL] noun a kind of insect (similar to millipede)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[L] verb, transitive take hold of, grab, catch (in the arms); grope

[H] verb, transitive groan (of a sick person)

Speaker: Mfon Udoinyang

[HL] noun two hundred (from an old monetary system)

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

[HLHH] adjective unsteady; shiftless

[LHH] noun sperm, semen

[HF] noun the gums

[HH] verb, intransitive become sour

[HHH HLL] noun a low fence around a trap, it has one opening through which animals are driven

[LL] ideophone sound of dry cloth or paper crumbling

[HH] verb, intransitive become congested; become odorous; smell of fish

[HH] noun weeds, grass

[HL] ideophone describes something that passes by very fst (as a car speeds by or an insect flies by)

[HH] verb, transitive look at

[L] verb, intransitive shine, glitter, sparkle, reflect light (of a metal in the sun)

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

[HL] conjunction since (time, cause), because

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

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

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

[H] verb, transitive cut bush, clear bush

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

[LLH] verb, intransitive become short, squat, and fat (of people or animals)

[HHH] verb, transitive cause confusion, disturb

[H] verb, transitive hit, hit the mark; knock against, knock down; throw down; drop

[HH] noun weavil

[HHH] noun a whistle

[HF] noun smell, odor

[HLL] adverb completely

[LL] noun a game of struggle

[LF] noun a ditch containing water, a large pit, dam

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

[HHHH] noun blood

[LLH] noun earning a living; struggling

[LHH] noun a kind of frog

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

[L] verb, transitive kill

[HH] verb, transitive, verb, intransitive see at an unexpected time or place, occur unexpectedly, do unexpectedly

[HH] verb, intransitive, verb, transitive become pregnan, conceive (var. jʌmmo)

[LH] verb, transitive doubt, surprise