Colors
There is no Klingon word in the sense of "red is a nice color"
. If you want to ask "What color is that?", say
chay' nguv?
During
qep'a' 26, in July
2019, a word for "color" was revealed, but it means "color (in general)". See ➞
qalmuS
Different shades
There are four basic verbs for colors:
Different colors can be intensified by adding the
rover-suffix
qu'- ("very") or by distinguishing colors in
wov (
bright) and
Hurgh ("dark"). One may replace the
'ej and by
'ach but .
Color |
Klingon |
Translation |
literally |
Source |
| SuD | blue | just SuD | TKD |
| SuD 'ej Hurgh | dark blue | SuD and dark | TalkNow |
| SuDqu' 'ej Hurgh | dark green to blue | very SuD and dark | NOT CANON |
| SuDqu' | "would probably be described as green" | very SuD | KGT, p. 82 |
| SuDqu' 'ej wov | pale green to yellow | very SuD and bright | NOT CANON |
| SuD 'ej wov | "a way to refer to a yellowish tinge"; blonde | SuD and bright | KGT, p. 82 |
| SuD 'ej wov | light blue | SuD and bright | TalkNow |
| Doq 'ej wov | red to orange | Doq and bright | NOT CANON |
| Doq | orange/red | just Doq | TKD |
| Doqqu' 'ej wov | pink | very Doq and bright | TalkNow |
| Doqqu' | "a color more red than orange" | very Doq | KGT, p. 82 |
| Doqqu' 'ej Hurgh | darkred | very Doq and dark | NOT CANON |
| Doq 'ej Hurgh | darkred to brown | Doq and dark | NOT CANON |
| Doq 'ej wovbe' | brown | Doq and not bright | HolQeD 8:1 p. 7, stk 02/21/1998 |
| qIj | black | black | TKD |
| qIj 'ej wov | grey | black and bright | TalkNow |
Please note that the displayed colors are only for visual reference and do not represent canon definitions.
Color scale
A gradient color scale has been designed by
Roger Cheesbro many years ago, before the additional shadings had become canon:
Colors with similes
Besides that, colors can be named by using
similes:
Doq 'ej Qaj wuS rur
It is Doq like kradge-lips. (a brownish tone)
Doq 'ej beqpuj rur
It is Doq and resembles bekpuj (an orange mineral)
Related terms
There is a verb
nguv which means "be dyed, stained, tinted". It is used in phrases like
chay' nguv ("How is it tinted?") or with the
-moH in the form
nguvmoH ("dye, tint, stain", literally "cause to be dyed".
verbs
nouns
See also
- Klingon Jokes: "Are the warriors red?"
References
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