Apatani English

[aalú] n. potato or. Assamese

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Dialect: syn. byayuñ

[abu-akeɁ] n. manure; fertilizer

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[ágè] v. drain out (water from a field)

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[agǝr] n. bundh; raised earthen boundary between paddy fields where millet is planted

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[aɉí] n. farm; wet agricultural field

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[aɉí mɨnɨ] n. farmer

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[aɉí-ʎaɁpjó] n. agriculture; farming

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[álì] v. plant

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[alíi] n. seed; descendant; progeny; successor

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[amo] n. remaining grains of unhusked rice grains among husked ones

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[amu] n. yield; production; quantity (crop)

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[amu pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. po’tuñ pèeruñ

[amjũ] v. grow (as an offshoot)

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[árù] n. weed; unwanted plant in an cultivated field

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[asuɁ] adj. dud crop; fuitless; unproductive

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Dialect: ant. abiñ

[axóo pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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[ajóo tɨpè] n. pumpkin

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Dialect: syn. e’pè, tápè

[balu] n. garden

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[batĩ] n. hedge; cattle barricade designed for humans to climb over it

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[beŋna] n. brinjal (Solanam melongena)

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Dialect: or. Assamese

[bejũ] n. tomato; potato

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Dialect: var. byayuñ

[bĩ] v. uproot (as of weed)

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[boɁgo] n. dam, for diverting water to irrigation channel

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[bɨjo] adj. weedy; full of weed (of a field)

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[bjajũ] n. tomato; potato

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Dialect: var. beyuñ

[damu] n. wooden digging stick used as an agricultural implement

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[díi] v. plant; transplant; implant

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[diikoɁ] n. hard soil; lumps of soil

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[dĩgjã] n. fencepost

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[ditǝr] n. lumps of soil (esp. in paddy fields)

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[elã] n. a variety of red rice, usually late ripening

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[ẽku] n. paddy of previous harvest

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[ẽsuɁ] v. fail (esp. of rice plant; failing to fruit)

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[ẽtɨ] n. paddy harvest

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[ẽtɨ patã] n. labor gang for paddy harvesting

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[ʎaɁpjo] n. dry cultivation area (esp. for millet)

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[haaʎĩ patã] n. labor gang engaged in transplanting of paddy

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[hubur] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

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Dialect: var. hurbu

[hurbu] n. pipe, usually of bamboo or wood, to conduct water from one field to the other

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Dialect: var. hubur

[kõci patã] n. labour gang that works early in the morning

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[kormo] n. seed

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[li] v. sow; seed; broadcast

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[mipa] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

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[mipá sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet mainly grown in paddy field bundhs

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[mipja] n. an early ripening variety of rice

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[Misã bjako] n. yellow berried nightshade (Solanum xanthocarpum)

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Dialect: syn. swtw byako

[muɁgo] n. outlet in a paddy field

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[muku kuli] n. seed of tobacco plant

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[mɨra] n. effigy in an agricultural field to scare away birds

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[paapɨ] n. a distinct plot in a vegetable garden

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[pagǝr] v. build or repair bundhs

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[paxo] n. narrow channel in the wet rice cultivation fields

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Dialect: syn. he’te’

[pĩciɁ sarsé] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[poli] n. seed

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[purtú pèerũ] n. a variety of bean

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Dialect: syn. amu pèeruñ; po’tuñ pèeruñ

[pɨnã] n. rice husk

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Dialect: syn. empw

[pjali] n. seed (esp. of rice)

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[pjapĩ] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pjapúu] n. early maturing variety of rice

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[pjatɨ] n. a variety of rice

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[pjaɲiɁ] n. early maturing variety of paddy belonging to mìipyá group

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[ŋɨi sɨpǝr] n. fish pond

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[rade emo] n. a late ripening variety of paddy

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[rɨbĩ] n. area of slash and burn cultivation

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[sadi] n. plantation (esp. of pine); pine estate

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Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; salw

[sadi-sapa] n. plantation

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[salũ] n. medium sized cucumber

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[salɨ] v. plantation

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Dialect: syn. sañsuñ; sadi

[sãsũ] n. plantation

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Dialect: syn. sadi; salw

[sãsũ] adj. weedy

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[sarli] n. millet seed preserved for the next season

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[sarma puɉũ] n. a mound of refuse mainly comprising of millet stalk and other weeds in a millet garden

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[sarpu sarse] n. an early ripening variety of millet

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[sarse] n. millet

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[sarxe sarse] n. a late ripening variety of millet

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[sarxo] n. stalk, of millet

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[sɨgã] n. irrigation channel

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[sɨlĩ] n. a small track inside the kitchen garden

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[sɨxó] n. water channel

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[takuɁ] n. cucumber

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[takuɁ kuli] n. cucumber seeds

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[takuɁ riilaɁ] n. cucumber tendril

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[tamì] n. weed

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[tãsǝr patã] n. labour gang engaged in miscellaneous works in the agricultural fields

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[tero] n. chili

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[tero jorsã] n. green chili

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[tĩpi] n. dry field; dry cultivation area

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[tɨleɁ] n. a variety of garlic

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Dialect: syn. tale’

[tɨnĩ] n. variety of a plant; wild sesame (Perilla frutescens)

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Dialect: var. taniñ

[tɨŋá] n. fruit

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[úì perũ] n. a variety of bean

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[jorlu] n. vegetable garden located away from the village

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