ber |
v. |
ovulate, undergo ovulation (i.e. the discharge of a mature ovum from the ovary) |
sexuality |
bertlham taymey |
n. |
epilogue |
bewSom |
n. |
mixture of ingredients that, after a bit of time, produces fermented HIq. |
bewSom pa' |
n. |
brewery [room]; Maltz thought that maybe this was shortened from something like bewSom roghmeH qegh pa' "vat for fermenting bewSom room" or "bewSom fermenting vat room", but he wasn't sure about that. |
bewSom qach |
n. |
brewery [building] |
bI'reS taymey |
n. |
prologue |
buq'ach |
n. |
trombone-like Klingon instrument, so a Terran trombone would be a tera' buq'ach. |
chenHa' meyrI' |
v. |
fail to climax (slang), lit. "the square malforms" |
qul chenmoH |
v. |
light a fire, ignite |
fire |
chI |
v. |
menstruate, undergo menstruation |
sexuality |
chuv |
n. |
leftover (also used for money change) |
ghaS |
v. |
indicate, signal |
ghItlhwI' 'echlet |
n. |
chalk board, flip chart |
ghuch |
v. |
climax, is not heard as frequently as a couple of slang expressions: meQ (literally, "burn") and HutmaH chav (literally, "achieve 90"). |
sexuality |
ghuj |
v. |
pivot, swivel [what the door knob does when you push it down] |
ghujmoH |
v. |
pivot, swivel [would you do to a door knob] |
HIjmeH 'ap |
n. |
fee paid when bringing certain commodities into a jurisdiction |
HIjmeH 'ap pIn |
n. |
customs officer |
HIvje'He |
n. |
piano in a piano bar |
Hoq |
v. |
pull; as in pulling a child's wagon (by its handle) or for a train engine to pull the train along or to pull an electrical plug out of the wall. |
HommaH |
n. |
appendix (of a book) |
Hovje'voH |
n. |
evolution (Darwinian), technical or scientific term |
Evolution |
Ho'yI' |
n. |
bow (for arrows) |
HuqmeH 'ap |
n. |
excise tax, sales tax, VAT |
Hur |
v. |
pull, tug; refers to the action of pulling back the string of the bow but also to pulling the handle on a door to open or close the door or to pulling on someone's suspenders. |
HurDagh chuHwI' |
n. |
bow (for arrows) (not a Klingon device), lit. "stringed-instrument hurler" |
HurwI' |
n. |
bow (for arrows) (not a Klingon device) (short form) |
HutmaH |
n. |
sexual climax (slang), literally "90." Maltz didn't know how 90 got to be associated with climaxing. |
sexuality |
jejSIp |
n. |
acetylene |
chemistry |
jIrmoH |
v. |
crank, can be used for turning a doorknob. |
lenmeS rop |
n. |
Lenmes disease, a native Klingon disease caused by a bacterium. Its symptoms include high fever, weakness, and perhaps abdominal pain, headaches, and a skin rash. |
medical terms |
maqDar |
n. |
mak'dar, Klingon insult |
cursing |
may'ron raS |
n. |
piano |
mutchoH |
n. |
evolution (Darwinian), less technical term |
Evolution |
namyaS |
n. |
hood (of a cloak, robe, sweatshirt, or whatever) |
navSu' |
n. |
key, legend (as on a map) |
paSta' |
n. |
Terran pasta, noodles, spaghetti. This is a Terran thing (or things), so they borrowed the word. |
transliteration |
pomtut |
n. |
battering ram |
pupHa' |
v. |
be approximate; If it's necessary to hedge one's bets adverbially, chaq "perhaps" and ghaytan "likely" are acceptable. |
pupqa' |
v. |
bribe (slang) |
qeqchu' |
v. |
train really well, to work really hard at it and achieve intended goals |
qet'uy |
n. |
pine cone, something that grows on certain kinds of trees and looks much like a pine cone as seen on Earth. |
botany |
qoro'na javtIm |
n. |
corona virus |
medical terms |
qo'vID wa'maH Hut |
n. |
Covid 19 (SARS-CoV-2 disease) |
medical terms |
qul qaDwI' |
n. |
firefighter, lit. fire challenger |
fire |
qul QongmoHwI' |
n. |
firefighter, one who puts fires to sleep, but that's usually not applied until the fire is actually out. |
fire |
qul SuvwI' |
n. |
firefighter, lit. fire fighter, fire warrior |
fire |
qul tlhay'moHwI' |
n. |
firefighter, lit. fire tamer (less frequent) |
fire |
QongmoH |
v. |
extinguish fire, lit. put to sleep, cause to sleep |
fire |
rem'ay' |
n. |
diaphragm, thoracic diaphragm (body part) |
body parts |
Sor 'IventoH |
n. |
pine cone, lit. tree pineapple; the proper term is qet'uy. |
tab |
v. |
wane, ebb, dwindle (talking about phases of a moon), idiomatic usage: "not applying yourself fully to the task at hand" |
tabHa' |
v. |
wax (talking about phases of a moon) |
targho'nI' |
n. |
tungsten |
chemistry |
tarngeb |
n. |
uranium |
chemistry |
taymey |
n. |
section of a book or play or the like that's separate from the main portion of the work. taymey is a frozen form and is considered singular. It's okay to say taymeymey |
teywI' 'echlet |
n. |
chalkboard or whiteboard or any similar surface that can be erased and reused |
tochmu' |
n. |
bribe / normally used with the verb chup (recommend, suggest) and sometimes with much (present). |
tlham rI'gheS |
n. |
parachute, lit. gravity deflector. Apparatus that creates some sort of force field that counters gravity when descending. |
tlhay |
v. |
embalm; refers to infusing a dead body with some sort of fluid to preserve it (and thereby create a jItuj'ep mummy). |
tlho' Huch |
n. |
tip, lit. gratitude money; Maltz said the concept was weird. |
va'chum |
n. |
sponge (for cleaning) |
veqtal |
n. |
VeK'tal; The VeK'tal response is a measure of Klingon physiological condition |
vemmoH |
v. |
light a fire, lit. wake up, cause to wake up |
fire |
wejHa' |
adv. |
already, means something along the lines of "before now" or "as of now." |
woj tlhuD |
v. |
be radioactive, lit. "emit radiation" |
'alwI' |
n. |
floater, informal word for parachute, the old-fashioned contraption that resembles an umbrella |
'ap |
n. |
dues, toll |
'ebHIv |
n. |
apparatus used to distill various concoctions into an acceptable form of HIq |
'ebHIv pa' |
n. |
distillery [room] |
'ebHIv qach |
n. |
distillery [building] |
'ebraH |
n. |
climax (sexual) |
sexuality |
'o'nI' Sub |
n. |
solid foam (like styrofoam) |
'uch |
v. |
keep (in the combination of change) |