Playing cards vocabulary

Playing cards does not seem a Klingon thing, but our informant Maltz obviously has observed humans play the game, and told us at qepHom 2014 how to name the decks. These are not new words, just existing words to describe te things.

term	Klingon	literally
poker	'urghwI'	"one who pokes"
♣ clubs	Sormey	"trees"
♦ diamonds	meyrI'mey	"squares"
♥ hearts	pormey	"leaves"
♠ spades	'eSpeD	(see note)

Note that chanmon, the word for "diamond", refers only to the gemstone, not to the shape.

The word for "spades" has no meaning. Maltz simply "calls a spade 'eSpeD". It's just the Klingon pronunciation of "spade".

See also

• vocabulary for playing cards
• Star Trek Costumizable Card Game (CCG), 1997, with only one card in Klingon.
• SkyBox Cards, published 1998, containing lots of new canon expressions
• Quotable Klingon card set, published 2014