Uyo Ibibio Dictionary - Computational Linguistics and Spoken ...

Uyo–Bielefeld Ibibio Dictionary (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)
fuun - o. /fuu��/ [fuuNO] LLH tv: pass, pass by (esp of time); tv pass, pass by, cross,
surpass.
fuup /fuup/ [fuup] LL tv: take in little bits (esp to make something last), ration.
fuuro /fuuro/ [fuuro] LLH iv: become sharp; become cool (of air, weather).
fuuro. /fuur�/ [fuurO] HHH iv: draw up small, curl up the limbs (esp of an animal from
fear), withdraw; tv contract, draw up (the body, the face).
fuuro. /fuur�/ [fuurO] LLH iv: fly.
fuut /fuut/ [fuut] LL tv: blow on (as with the mouth or bellows to cool, or to make a
fire flame up), blow (a whistle, a wind instrument), whistle.
fuut /fuut/ [fuut] HH tv: fold, roll up into a cylinder, make narrow.
fuut /fuut/ [fuut] HH iv: swell; boil (of water), grow (of weeds, hair).
fuut /fuut/ [fuut] HH iv, tv: draw up small, curl up the limbs (esp of an animal from
fear), withdraw;.
fuiyo. /fuij�/ [fuijO] LH iv: become lazy.
gado.n /gad�n/ [gadOn] HL n: gallon (var. kadOn).
gari /gari/ [gari] LH n: cassava in a dry granular form, mixed with water to form a paste
and eaten with soup, gari (var. kadi, Nkadi, kari, Nkari).
iba /iba/ [iba] HF n: a kind of small crocodile (Goldie monitor lizard) cf afiom, utai.
iba /iba/ [iba] LL num: two.
iba /iba/ [iba] LH n: a small cloth warn at the waist by mourning widows.
iba /iba/ [iba] LH n: underpants.
ibaan /ibaan/ [ibaan] HHL n: women, wives (pl. of owonwaan).
ibaba /ibaba/ [ibaba] LHH n: a kind of legume used to thicken afere (soup), horse eye
bean,, stinging bean, Mucuna urens (Dalziel).
ibai /ibai/ [ibai] HHH n: thigh, lap syn ifukO (syn. ifVkkO).
iban - /iba�/ [ibaN] HH n: a buoy containing fluorescent material to guide boats at night.
ibat /ibat/ [ibat] HH n: a kind of flat bony fish.
ibe /ibe/ [ibe] HF n: a kind of fish.
ibe /ibe/ [ibe] LF n: become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.
ibe /ibe/ [ibe] LH aj : become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.
ibeghe /ibe�e/ [ibeRe] LHH aj : become unsalted, unseasoned; become deficient.
ibene /ibene/ [ibene] LLL n: wall (var. ibibene, idibene).
ibia /ibia/ [ibia] HLL n: a part of the entrails of an animal.
ibibiak /ibibiak/ [ibibiak] HHHH n: [Efik] sweat (var. idibiak, ibikpO, idikpO, ikpO).
ibibio /ibibio/ [ibibio] LLLL n: ibibio person.
ibifik /ibifik/ [ibifik] LLL n: [Efik] n breath; strength syn iNweek.
ibiibiet /ibiibiet/ [ibiibiet] LLHHL aj : cooked.
ibikpai /ibikpai/ [ibikpai] LLLL n: state of numbness or sleep in the limbs; state of
being shrivelled from immersion in water.
ibiok /ibiok/ [ibiok] HHF n: pond.
ibiom /ibiom/ [ibiom] HHH n: dove (bird).
ibi.t /ib�t/ [ibIt] HF HL n: drum.
ibiti /ibiti/ [ibiti] LLL n: a raffia mat used for ceiling thatch; a large hat made of this
mat used as an umbrella (var. iboto, ikpoto).
ibo. /ib�/ [ibO] LL n: baldness, a bald person, bald spot.
54