Revision as of 16:49, 20 April 2024

Here is the lexicon of Klingon. The list currently contains 5,260 words.

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babey`DaS - n - Barbados
babton - n - pepper, capsicum
bach - n - shot
bach - v - shoot
bachHa` - v - err; make a mistake [slang]
baDjer Hajvav - n - badger
bagh - v - tie
baghHa' - v - decrypt, break, crack (a code) [without permission, by unauthorized means]
baghneQ - n - spoon
bagh`et - n - baguette
baH - v - fire [torpedo; rocket; missile]
baHjan - n - launcher
baHwI` - n - gunner
baj - v - earn; work for [actively]
bal - n - jug; jar; bottle
balgharya` - n - Bulgaria
bam - v - face, have the prospect of having to deal with
bama -- n - Burma
bama Hol - n - Burmese
bambu` - n - bamboo
ban - v - be bruised
banan naH - n - banana
banmoH - v - bruise
bang - n - love; one who is loved; beloved
bang bom - n - love song
bang pong - n - pet name; endearment
banglaDeS - n - Bangladesh
baq - v - terminate; discontinue
baqghol - n - type of liquor; ~bahgol~
baQ - v - be fresh; be just picked [fruit; vegetable]
baQ - v - toss ~bat'leth~ from one hand to the other
baQa` - excl - [general invective]; boo! hiss! [Often preceded or followed by general grumbling and growling; sometimes just grumbling and growling alone.]
baQpel - n - variant of pull-up (In this exercise, the first up-down movement is with one arm only, the second is with the other arm only, the third is with the first arm only, and so on.)
bar - v - blink, flash [as in lighting up briefly or repeatedly]
barat - n - India
bargh - n - flat-bottomed pot for food preparation
bargh Soj - n - casserole
bartIq - n - branch (of a tree)
barwI` - n - pulsar (astronomers' term)
baS - n - metal
baS Ha`on - n - staple
baS laSvargh - n - foundry
baS SIrgh - n - wire
baS `In - n - bell [percussion instrument made of metal]
baStan - n - Boston
baSta` - n - vector (mathematics)
batqul - n - B'aht Qul challenge, a Klingon game
batlh - adv - honored; with honor; honorably; honorable
batlh - n - honor
batlhHa` - adv - dishonorably
bav - v - orbit; circumference
baw` - v - be comfortable, be feeling prepared, be confident [as in being comfortable going on a journey or comfortable about an upcoming battle]
baw`Ha` - v - be uncomfortable, be worried, be hesitant [as in being uncomfortable going on a journey or uncomfortable about an upcoming battle]
bay - n - Klingon ~b~ sound
baylaD - n - slice [the chunk cut off as the result of quH]
bay`eS - n - inferior, subordinate
ba` - v - sit
ba`qIn - n - saddle [This refers to the seat strapped to the back of an animal]
ba`Suq - n - bubble
beb - n - roof
beb mutlhwI` - n - roofer
bech - v - suffer
begh - n - deflectors
begh botjan - n - deflector shields
beH - n - rifle
bej - v - be sure; be definite; be positive; be certain [slang]
bej - v - watch
beq - n - crew; crewman; member (of a crew, etc.)
beqpuj - n - type of mineral; ~bekpuj~ [bright orange in color]
bel - n - pleasure
bel - v - be pleased
bel Qu` - n - hobby
belghIya` - n - Belgium
belHa` - v - be displeased
belHa``a` qIvonlIj? - excl - Do you need to go to the bathroom
bem - n - sole of foot
ben - n - years ago; years old
bep - n - agony
bep - v - complain; object; gripe
beQ - v - be flat
ber - v - ovulate, undergo ovulation
bergh - v - be irritable
berImyu`Da - n - Bermuda
berlIn - n - Berlin
bertlham - n - ending; final portion [of a song; play; story etc.]
bertlham `echlet - n - back cover
bertlham taymey - n - epilogue
beSbal - n - baseball [the sport]
beSbal moQ - n - baseball [the ball]
bet - v - impale
betgham - n - liquid (state of matter)
bettI` - n - aluminum, aluminium
betleH - n - type of hand weapon; ~bat'leth~
betleH bey` - n - ~bat'leth~ display
betleH `obe` - n - Order of the ~Bat'leth~
bewbeb - n - baobab
bewSom - n - mixture of ingredients that, after a bit of time, produces fermented HIq
bewSom pa` - n - brewery [room]
bewSom qach - n - brewery [building]
bey - n - howl; wail
beylI` - n - bank
beynen - n - Benin
bey` - n - ceremonial display
be` - n - female; woman; girl (young woman)
be`avrI`qa` - n - South Africa
be`Hom - n - girl (female child)
be`joy` - n - torture-by-women [ritualized torture of prisoners; performed by
be`nal - n - wife
be`nI` - n - sister
be`nI` be`nal - n sister-in-law (wife's sister)
be`nI` loDnal - n - brother-in-law (husband's sister)
be`nI`nal - n - sister-in-law
bID - n - half
bIghHa` - n - prison; jail
bIH - pro - they; them [incapable of language]
bIj - n - punishment
bIj - v - punish
bIlemtan - n - whim
bIlIs ngutlhmey - n - Blissymbolics
bIm - n - second tone of nonatonic musical scale
bIng - n - area below; area under
bInglan - n - hypothesis
bIp - num - hundred thousand [number-forming element]
bIqIynIy - n - bikini
bIQ - n - water
bIQ bal - n - water jug
bIQ beb - n - surface of water
bIQ Duj - n - ship; boat
bIQ ghaywI` - n - shower
bIQ ghaywI` pa` - n - shower room
bIQ ghItmoHwI` - n - fountain
bIQ Hurgh Duj - n - submarine
bIQ notron - n - waterfall
bIQ SeHjan - n - faucet
bIQDep - n - fish
bIQSIp - n - hydrogen
bIQSIp `ugh - n - deuterium isotope
bIQtIq - n - river
bIQyIn - n - cookie sandwich (two chabHommey stuck together)
bIQ`a` - n - ocean; sea
bIQ`a` HeH - n - beach
bIQ`a` qIj - n - Black Sea
bIr - v - be cold
bIraqlul - n - ~brak'lul~ [redundancy in body parts]
bIraSIw - n - Brazil
bIreqtal - n - ~Brek'tal~ ritual
bIreQtagh - n - bregit lung
bIre`tanya - n - Brittany
bIrI`tIS qolambIya - n - British Columbia
bIroqlIy majaj - n - broccoli
bIS`ub - n - bottom [interior bottom]
bIt - v - be nervous; be uneasy
bItlh - v - adapt to, get used to, acclimatize to, conform to, become adjusted to
bIv - v - break [rules]
bIyelaruS - n - Belarus
bI` - v - sweep [away]; wipe away something (like sweat from the forehead)
bI`raD - n - dough, batter
bI`rel - n - ~B'rel~ class [vessel]
bI`rel tlharghDuj - n - B'rel-class Scout
bI`reS - n - beginning [of a song; play; story etc.]
bI`reS `echlet - n - front cover
bI`reS taymey - n - prologue
bo - n - feather; penne
bobcho` - n - module
bobDar - n - splash bobDar tlhen to splash
boch - v - shine; be shiny
bochmoHwI` - n - sycophant; flatterer [slang]
boD - n - forehead [regional]
bogh - v - be born
boghoy - n - procession, parade, march
boH - v - be impatient
boj - v - nag
bol - v - drool; leak (of a leaking liquid, used of a slow or minor leak)
bolwI` - n - traitor [slang]
bom - n - song; chant
bom - v - sing; chant bom; puq rur sing falsetto
bom mu` - n - lyric; lyrics
bomwI` - n - singer
bon - v - share with [B-vaD C bon A: A shares C with B]
bong - adv - accidentally; by accident
bop - v - be about [something]; be concerned with
boq - n - alliance; bloc; coalition; fusion
boq - v - ally with; form an alliance with; used in math for addition [used in math: boq for addition]
boq Hol - n - pidgin, creole, contact language
boq ru` - n - coalition
boqHar - n - miracle, wonder [you can say qaStaH boqHarmey!]
boqHa` - v - dissociate from; used in math for subtraction [used in math: boqHa` for subtraction]
boqHa``egh - v - used in math for division [used in math: X-logh boqHa``egh Y for division]
boqrat - n - type of animal; ~bokrat~
boqyIn - n - symbiont (takes the plural -pu', because even if the symbiont does not have a mouth to speak, it still carries a person's mind capable of language. Okrand made clear the definition is not capable of speech (i.e. having a mouth to speak), but capable of language, which is the capability to communicate. If the symbiont part is regarded as a parasite, you might use -mey.)
boq`egh - v - used in math for multiplication [used in math: X-logh boq`egh Y for multiplication]
boQ - n - aid; assistance; support
boQ - n - aide
boQ - v - assist; support
boQ Hol - n - pidgin, creole, contact language
boQDu` - n - aide-de-camp
bor - v - gurgle [sound from stomach]
borgh - n - Borg
borghel - n - type of bird [very small; its eggs are considered quite txsty]
borqu` - v - thunder [slang]
bortaS - n - revenge
bortaS DIb - n - Right of Vengeance
boS - v - collect
boSnayHercheghovIna - n - Bosnia and Herzegovina
boSporoS - n - Bosporus
bot - v - prevent; block; prohibit; intercept
botjan - n - shields [force field on ship]
botlh - n - center; middle; median [of a group of numbers]
bov - n - era
bov tIQ - n - prehistoric era; primeval times
bo`Dagh - n - scoop; scooping implement [to serve food]
bo`Degh - n - bird
bo`DIj - n - court
bo`DIj nompuq - n - forensic evidence
bo`DIj qaD - n - lawsuit
bo`ghey - n - slope (of a mountain)
bo`voD - n - drawer
buchwa`na - n - Botswana
buD - v - be lazy
buj - v - be neither warm nor cool
bulvar - n - monk, nun [gender-neutral; works like maqlegh]
bum - v - absorb (e.g. absorb liquid, not absorb information)
bup - v - quit
buq - n - bag, sack, pouch, pocket
buqjaj - n - Friday
buq`ach - n - trombone-like Klingon instrument
buq`Ir - n - cube
buQ - v - threaten
bur - v - hiccup bur DIS we have/had a leap year
burgh - n - stomach
burgh quD - n - naturally produced ~qud~
burqIyna`vaSo - n - Burkina Faso
burrI'to - n - burrito
buS - v - concentrate on; focus on; think only about
buSHa` - v - ignore; not focus [on]
buSHach - n - thought, notion
but - v - be natural
butnat - n - plutonium
butlh - n - dirt under fingernails
buv - n - classification
buv - v - classify
buy` - v - be full; be filled up
buy` ngop - excl - good news; it's good to hear that [slang]
bu` - n - sergeant

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cha - n - torpedoes
chab - n - invention; innovation [slang]
chab - n - pie; tart; dumpling
chabal - n - something desired or requested
chabHom - n - cookie
chach - n - emergency
chach - v - be auxiliary; be for backup use
chach Duj - n - ambulance
chaD - n - Chad
chaDvay` - n - radio frequency; Hertz [unit of frequency]
chang`eng - n - pair
chagh - v - drop
chaH - pro - they; them [capable of using language]
chaj - n - close female friend of a female
chal - n - sky
chalqach - n - tower
chal bIQ - n - rain
chal chuch - n - snow [A solid block of ice would be chuch ngogh. For shaved ice or the kind of ice in a snow cone or smoothie, chuch is usually sufficient.]
cham - n - technology
chamwI` - n - technician
chan - n - area eastward; area towards the east
chanDoq - n - marinade
chanmon - n - diamond (the gemstone)
chang - v - be gelatinous
chap - n - back [of hand]
chap - v - be official, authenticated, authorized, legitimate
chap baQpel - n - variant of baQpel with overhand grip, palms face away
chap choQpel - n - pull-up (overhand grip, palms face away)
chaq - adv - perhaps; maybe
chaQ - v - thrust upward with end of ~bat'leth~
char - v - be slimy
chargh - v - conquer
charghwI` - n - victor; conqueror
chaS - n - top [of cane or walking stick]
chatlh - n - nonsense; balderdash [slang]
chatlh - n - soup [thick]
chav - n - achievement
chav - v - achieve
chaw` - n - permit; ticket
chaw` - v - allow; permit
chaw` ngoq - n - password, passphrase, passcode
chay - n - Klingon ~ch~ sound
chayqa` - n - esophagus
chay` - q - how?
cha` - num - two
cha` - v - show; display [picture]; project
cha`bIp - num - two hundred thousand
cha`bIp - n - type of bird [noted for its speed]
cha`bIpDIch - num - two hundred thousand
cha`bIp`uy` - num - two hundred billion
cha`bIp`uy`DIch - num - two hundred billionth
cha`DaSvI` - n - a Klingon game that is similar to golf in that it involves precisely aiming a projectile
cha`DIch - n - aide; second
cha`DIch - num - second
cha`Do` - n - type of bird [about which little is known]
cha`Hu` - n - day before yesterday
cha`leS - n - day after tomorrow
cha`logh - adv - twice
cha`maH - num - twenty
cha`maHDIch - num - twentieth
cha`maHSaghan - num - twenty billion
cha`maHSaghanDIch - num - twenty billionth
cha`maH`uy` - num - twenty million
cha`maH`uy`DIch - num - twenty millionth
cha`naS - n - type of bird [small; digs up bugs to eat]
cha`neH - n - forearm
cha`netlh - num - twenty thousand
cha`netlhDIch - num - twenty thousandth
cha`netlh`uy` - num - twenty billion
cha`netlh`uy`DIch - num - twenty billionth
cha`nob - n - ritual gifts
cha`par - n - type of bird [noted for its song]
cha`puj - n - dilithium
cha`pujqut - n - dilithium crystal
cha`qu` - n - type of bird [with a noisy; repetitive cry]
cha`SaD - num - two thousand
cha`SaDbIp - num - two thousand million
cha`SaDbIpDIch - num - two thousand millionth
cha`SaDDIch - num - two thousandth
cha`SaDSaghan - num - two trillion
cha`SaDSaghanDIch - num - two trillionth
cha`Saghan - num - two billion
cha`SaghanDIch - num - two billionth
cha`SanID - num - two thousand
cha`SanIDbIp - num - two thousand million
cha`SanIDbIpDIch - num - two thousand millionth
cha`SanIDDIch - num - two thousandth
cha`SanIDSaghan - num - two trillion
cha`SanIDSaghanDIch - num - two trillionth
cha`vatlh - num - two hundred
cha`vatlhbIp - num - twenty million
cha`vatlhbIpDIch - num - twenty millionth
cha`vatlhDIch - num - two hundredth
cha`vatlhSaghan - num - two hundred billion
cha`vatlhSaghanDIch - num - two hundred billionth
cha`vatlh`uy` - num - two hundred million
cha`vatlh`uyDIch - num - two hundred millionth
cha``etlh pe`wI` - n - scissors
cha``etlh DaSwI` - n - pair of tweezers
cha``uy` - num - two million
cha``uy`DIch - num - two millionth
cheb - n - ~cheb~ [unit of weight]
cheb`a` - n - big ~cheb~ [unit of weight]
chech - v - be drunk; be intoxicated
chechtlhutlh - n - type of liquor; ~chech'tluth~
chegh - v - return [to]
cheH - v - defect
chej - n - liver
chel - v - add
chelwI` - n - accountant; financier [slang]
chem - v - prank
chemvaH - n - type of animal; ~chemvah~
chen - v - build up; take form
chenHa` meyrI' - v - fail to climax (slang), lit. "the square malforms"
chenmoH - v - form; make; create
chenmoHwI` - n - creator; maker
chen`ong - n - maze
chep - v - prosper; be prosperous
cheq - v - tornado [You can also say ver SuS`a` "a tornado happens" (literally: "the big wind spirals"). ver SuS (or ver SuSHom) would most likely refer to a whirlwind.]
cher - v - establish; set up
chergh - v - tolerate
chertIS - n - mint, menthoid plant
chertIS Sawqe` - n - mint candy, candy mint (chertIS, of course, is a Klingon plant, but its taste resembles Terran peppermint. It also resembles Terran spearmint.)
chertIS Su`ghar Sawqe` - n - mint candy, candy mint (chertIS, of course, is a Klingon plant, but its taste resembles Terran peppermint. It also resembles Terran spearmint.)
cheS - n - an animal with long ears, similar to an Earth rabbit
cheS Hol - n - Tsez (language)
cheSqa` - n - Czech Republic
cheSvel - n - coat; jacket [general term] [regional]
cheSvel - n - type of coat
chetvI` - n - ~chetvi~; spear-throwing device
chetvI` - n - torpedo tube
chev - v - separate
chevwI` tlhoy` - n - territorial wall [e.g. Berlin Wall]
cheyIS - n - cephalopod, a squid-like Klingon animal
che` - v - rule; reign; run; preside
che`ron - n - battlefield
chI - v - menstruate, undergo menstruation
chIch - adv - purposely; on purpose; intentionally
chID - v - admit
chIj - v - navigate
chIjwI` - n - navigator
chIl - v - lose; misplace
chIm - v - be empty; be deserted; be uninhabited; be drained
chIp - v - cut; trim [hair] jIb chIplu`bogh The hair is short.
chIpwI` - n - hairdresser
chIq - v - cross, transverse
chIrgh - n - temple [structure]
chIrnagho`ra - n - Montenegro
chIS - v - be white
chItlh - v - be symmetrical
chIvo` - n - total dishonor, absolute lack of honor
chIw - v - express, embody, exude, epitomize
chI`ID - n - uterus, womb
chI`le - n - Chile
chI`lIy - n - chili (This is used when referring to a prepared dish (chili con carne; chili for short or when there's no meat in it). It's not used for a pepper by itself.)
chob - n - corridor
chob`a` - n - main corridor
choghvat - n - stairway leading to door of a ship; gangplank; porch
choghvat pa` - n - porch
choH - n - change
choH - v - alter; change
chol - v - close in; get closer (to); come nearer [-Daq is not needed on its object]
choljaH - n - ponytail holder
chom - n - bartender
chon - n - hunt
chon bom - n - hunting song
chonnaQ - n - hunting spear
chontay - n - ritual hunt
chong - excl - good; excellent; admirable [slang]
chong - v - be profound; be thorough; be careful [slang]
chong - v - be vertical
chongHa` - v - be italic [typeface]
chop - v - bite
choptaH - v - gnaw
choq - v - preserve; save
choQ - n - deck [on a ship]
choQpel - n - pull-up
chor - n - belly
chor - n - ceramic flat-bottomed pot [regional]
chor bargh - n - ceramic flat-bottomed pot [regional]
chorgh - n - eight tone of nonatonic musical scale
chorgh - num - eight
chorgh - v - glossy
chorgh reD mey` - n - octagon
chorgh reD `Impey` - n - pyramid [with eight-sided base]
chorghbIp - num - eight hundred thousand
chorghbIpDIch - num - eight hundred thousandth
chorghbIp`uy` - num - eight hundred billion
chorghbIp`uy`DIch - num - eight hundred billionth
chorghDIch - num - eighth
chorghmaH - num - eighty
chorghmaHDIch - num - eightieth
chorghmaHSaghan - num - eighty billion
chorghmaHSaghanDIch - num - eighty billionth
chorghmaH`uy` - num - eighty million
chorghmaH`uy`DIch - num - eighty millionth
chorghnetlh - num - eighty thousand
chorghnetlhDIch - num - eighty thousandth
chorghnetlh`uy` - num - eighty billion
chorghnetlh`uy`DIch - num - eighty billionth
chorghSaD - num - eight thousand
chorghSaDbIp - num - eight thousand million
chorghSaDbIpDIch - num - eight thousand millionth
chorghSaDDIch - num - eight thousandth
chorghSaDSaghan - num - eight trillion
chorghSaDSaghanDIch - num - eight trillionth
chorghSaghan - num - eight billion
chorghSaghanDIch - num - eight billionth
chorghSanID - num - eight thousand
chorghSanIDbIp - num - eight thousand million
chorghSanIDbIpDIch - num - eight thousand millionth
chorghSanIDDIch - num - eight thousandth
chorghSanIDSaghan - num - eight trillion
chorghSanIDSaghanDIch - num - eight trillionth
chorghvatlh - num - eight hundred
chorghvatlhbIp - num - eighty million
chorghvatlhbIpDIch - num - eighty millionth
chorghvatlhDIch - num - eight hundredth
chorghvatlhSaghan - num - eight hundred billion
chorghvatlhSaghanDIch - num - eight hundred billionth
chorghvatlh`uy` - num - eight hundred million
chorghvatlh`uyDIch - num - eight hundred millionth
chorgh`uy` - num - eight million
chorgh`uy`DIch - num - eight millionth
choS - n - twilight
choS - v - desert
choSan - n - Korea; North Korea
choSom - n - quartz
chot - v - murder
chotmang - n - assassination
chotwI` - n - murderer
chotlh - v - stare at, gaze at; observe; stare off into space, zone out; ogle
chov - v - assess; evaluate
chovnatlh - n - specimen
cho` - n - succession
cho` - v - succeed [to authority]
cho`nI`yoH - n - animism
chuch - n - ice
chuch mIl`oD - n - polar bear
chuch `aplom - n - hailstone
chuD - n people, kin, member of the same group or tribe or clan (very similar to vInDa')
chuH - v - explain clearly to; clarify for; specify for [slang]
chuH - v - throw [a spear] at; hurl [a spear] at
chuHchu` - v - hit with a thrown spear
chul - v - be wise (refers to demonstrating good judgment based on experience, not just intelligence or book-learning)
chum - v - be colorful
chun - v - be innocent
chunDab - n - meteor
chung - v - accelerate
chungHa`wI` - n - brake
chup - v - recommend; suggest
chuq - n - range; distance
chuq`a` - n - long range
chuq`a` leghwI` - n - space telescope [This is like the Hubble, not a Hov tut.]
chuQun - n - nobility (noble people)
chur - v - be uncomfortable [because of clothes, room temperature, etc. (involved with physical unpleasantness)]
churHa` - v - be comfortable [because of clothes, room temperature, etc. (involved with physical pleasantness)]
chuS - v - be noisy
chuS`ugh - n - type of musical instrument
chuSwI` - n - type of rodent that lives underground and makes annoying noise
chut - n - law
chut qeSwI` - n - lawyer
chuv - v - be left over
chuv - n - leftover (also used for money change); particle (grammatical)
chuvmey - n - leftovers [grammatical term]
chuy - v - sneeze
chuyDaH - n - thrusters
chu` - v - be new
chu` - v - engage; activate [a device]
chu` - v - play [a musical instrument]
chu`wI` - n - player [of an instrument]
chu`wI` - n - trigger

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Da - v - behave as; act in the manner of
Dab - v - dwell in/at; reside in/at
DabaHa'maS - n - the Bahamas
DabqI` - n - mud, clay, putty
Dach - v - be absent
Dach - v - be not attentive; be distracted; lack focus; not pay
DaghambIya` - n - the Gambia
Daghtuj - n - mixture of animal parts; animal parts mixed together
DaH - adv - now
DaH - n - bank; array [of weapons]
DaHjaj - n - today
DaHjaj gheD - n - dish in a restaurant; "catch of the day"
DaHpem - n - today (during daytime)
DaHpo - n this morning
DaHpov - n this afternoon
DaHram - n - tonight
Daj - v - be interesting
Daj - v - test inconclusively
Dal - v - be boring
Dam - v - regard as, view as, consider (treat somebody like) [For example: HumanvaD 'urwI' wIDam we treat the human as a traitor; 'urwI' ghaH 'e' vIDam I consider him (to be) a traitor.]
DamSayrotlh - n - animal like a hippopotamus
Damu` - n - crease
Dan - v - occupy [military term]
DannI` - n - headphones
Dang - v - focus [Make (an image) less blurry; This is used where the subject focuses an object: "I focus my eyes", "I focus the camera", "I was so drunk I couldn't focus my eyes". Objects cannot focus themselves. "My eyes focus" is wrong.]
Dap - n - nonsense
Dap bom - n - nonsense song
Daq - v - eavesdrop
Daq - n - site; location; place
Daq noy - n - landmark (not a building)
Daqav - n - bay, inlet, cove
DaqQeD - n - parapsychology
Daqrab - n - well (constructed and/or dug)
Daqtagh - n - warrior's knife; ~d'k tahg~
Daqturaq - n - d'akturak (someone with an "icy" demeanor; especially as a tough negotiator)
DaQ - n - ponytail
DarDogh - n - clone
Dargh - n - tea
Dargh HIvje` - n - teacup
DarSeq - n - ~darsek~ [unit of currency]
DaS - n - boot
DaSjaj - n - Monday
DaSpu` - n - boot spike
Dat - n - everywhere; all places
Dav - v - be swaying; be moving left or right [aircraft moving without
DavHam - n - false honor
DawI` - n - actor; actress
Daw` - n - revolt; revolution
Daw` - v - revolt
Day - v - compare (The object is always plural, frequently in the form A B je. If the comparison is being made between two (or more) of the same thing, the noun's plural suffix is generally not used: targh vIDay "I compare targs (to each other).")
Day - n - Klingon ~D~ sound
DayabI`tIS rop - n - diabetes
DayabI`tIS rop cha` - n - type 2 diabetes
DayabI`tIS rop wa` - n - type 1 diabetes
DaynguH - n - testicle
DayqIr - n - honey
DayqIr maqSung - n - honeybee
DayquS - n - type of plant; dikus plant
Da` - n - corporal [rank]
Da`ar - n - Dahar-Master
Da`lar - n - dollar
Da`nal - n - type of bird [characterized by erratic; unpredictable behavior]
Da`vI` - n - type of bird [characterized by erratic; unpredictable behavior]
Deb - n - desert
Dech - v - surround
Degh - n - helm
Degh - n - medal; emblem; symbol; insignia
Degh - v - act without a plan; improvise [slang]
DeghwI` - n - helmsman
DeH - v - be ripe; be overripe [fruit; vegetable]
Dej - v - collapse
Del - v - describe
Dem - v - be clear, transparent, uncolored
DenIb - n - Denebia
DenIb Qatlh - n - Denebian slime devil
DenIbngan - n - Denebian
DenIbya` - n - Denebia
DenIbya` Qatlh - n - Denebian slime devil
DenIbya`ngan - n - Denebian
Denmargh - n - Denmark
Dep - n - being [nonhumanoid]
Deq - v - be erstwhile, former, prior, ex- Deq HoD. The captain is history.
DeQ - n - credit [unit of currency]
Der - v - be yawing; be turning [aircraft move nose left or right]
Dergh - v - surrender (s.th.), relinquish, give away, let go of
DerlIq - n - chest, crate, trunk
Deryat - n - program, agenda, schedule (not used for "program" in the sense of playbill)
DeS - n - arm [body part]
DeS - n - handle; ax handle
DeS nev`ob - n - upper arm
DeS reStav - n - forearm
DeS tutren - n - inside of the elbow
DeSqIv - n - elbow
DeSwar - n - closet, cupboard, cabinet, fixed storage device
DeSwar bIr - n - refrigerator
Dev - v - lead; guide
DevwI` - n - leader
De` - n - data; information
De` chu` ghItlh - n - newspaper
De` jengva` - n - compact disk; CD
De` QulwI` - n - librarian
De`chel - adv - by the way, parenthetically
De`lor - n - drxpstone (stalactite or stalagmite)
De`wI` - n - computer
De`wI`Hom - n - laptop, portable computer
De`wI` tIS - n - laptop, portable computer
DI - n - litter; rubble; debris; garbage
DIb - n - privilege; right
DIch - n - certainty
DID - v - be stereotypical
DIDmoH - v - stereotype, speak of or refer to X in stereotypical terms
DIgh - v - undertake, deal with, take care of
DIghna` - n - type of plant (like a poppy)
DIj - v - slide sword blade along opponent's blade
DIj - v - use a pigment stick; paint with pigment stick
DIl - v - pay for
DIlyum - n - trillium
DIl`on - n - saltpeter
DIn - n - entryway [to a tunnel; conduit; etc.; not a door]
DIng - v - spin
DIngwI` - 'n - turntable (This is a slang term for the device and the most common way to refer to it.)
DIp - n - noun
DIr - n - skin
DIr bID - n - kilt-like garment
DIr qanwI` taS - n - suntan lotion
DIr paH bID - n - kilt-like garment [DIr bID is sufficient if the context is clear.]
DIr rop - n - a specific skin disease from the time of Kahless (not a general term for diseases)
DIr tutlh - n - tattoo
DIr `In - n - drum [percussion instrument with a stretched animal skin]
DIreS`en - n - Dresden
DIron - n - bagpipes
DIS - n - cave
DIS - n - year [Klingon]
DIS - v - confess
DISjaj - n - anniversary
DItroy` - n - Detroit
DItlh - v - be unavenged
DItlhHa` - v - be avenged
DItlhon - n - ruby
DIv - v - be guilty
DIvI` - n - federation; organization; association; league; union
DIvI`may`Duj - n - Federation battle cruiser
DIy - v - be stuck [like when you can't get a door open or a window open]
DI` - v - edit, revise, correct, modify
DI`on - n - characteristic, trait
DI`raq - n - animal like a sheep
DI`ruj - n - reality
DI`ruj QeD - n - metaphysics
DI`ruj tej - n - metaphysician
DI`ruj velqa` nIqHom - n - virtual reality software
Do - n - velocity; speed
Do qaD - n - race [contest of speed]
Do Qe` - n - velocity restaurant; fast-food restaurant; ~Dok'e~
Doch - n - thing
Doch - v - be rude
DochHa` - v - be polite, civil, courteous
DoD - n - mark [in coordinates]
Dogh - v - be foolish; be silly
Doghjey - n - unconditional surrender
DoH - v - back away from; back off; get away from
DoHmoH - v - drive back
Doj - n - batch, pile, heap, accumulation
Doj - v - be impressive
Doj tlhum - n - bundle
Dojmey - n - mass, masses, multitude, a very large but indeterminate group of something (people or otherwise)
Dol - n - entity; whole
Dol mI` - n - integer
Dom - n - radan [crude dilithium crystal]
Don - v - be parallel; go parallel to
DonHa` - v - be misaligned
Dop - n - side
Dop - v - be opposite, antithetical, contradictory; be negative (wej Dop minus three or negative three)
Doq - v - be orange; be red
Doq `ej SuD - v - be purple
Doq `ej wovbe` - v - be brown
Doqqu` `ej wov - v - be pink
DoQ - v - claim [territory]
DoQmIv - n - sink for cleaning hands, face, food, etc
DoQmIv`a` - n - bathtub, swimming pool [when needed, distinguish by qualifiers: Say`moHmeH DoQmIv`a`, QalmeH DoQmIv`a`]
Dor - v - come to an end [about period of time; e.g. month; year]
Dor - v - escort
DoS - n - target
Dotrar - n - constellation
Dotra1qIy Hol - n - Dothraki
Dotlh - n - status
Dov`agh - n - flute; fife
DoyIchlan - n - Germany
DoylI` - n - cart [vehicle that is pushed or pulled, often with two wheels (but can have any number)]
Doy` - v - be tired
Doy`yuS - n - Troyius
Do` - adv - luckily; with luck
Do` - v - be fortunate; be lucky
Do`ghI` - n - calf (body part)
Do`Ha` - adv - unfortunately
Do`Ha` - v - be unfortunate; be unlucky
Do`natu vagh - n - Donatu V [planet name]
Do`ol - n - sand [refers to sand as found in the desert or on a beach. It's not used for dirt.]
Do`ol HuD - n - dune
Do`ol raS`IS - n - grain of sand
Do`ol na` - n - salt (culinary, halite)
Dub - n - back [of body]
Dub - v - improve
DuD - v - mix
DuDwI` - n - stirring stick; mixing stick
Dugh - v - be vigilant
DughrI` - n - skull
DuH - n - possibility; option
DuH - v - be possible
DuHmor - n - palace (particularly elegant or grand castle)
DuHSum - n - lobster
Duj - n - instincts
Duj - n - ship; vessel
Duj ngaDHa` - n - irresponsible person; undisciplined person [slang]
DujtlhuQ - n - star (shape)
DujtlhuQ bIQDep - n - starfish
Dul - v - sigh [this verb takes no object]
Dum - v - nap
Dun - v - be wonderful; be great
Dung - n - area above; area overhead
DungluQ - n - noon
Dup - n - strategy
Duq - n - bowl [small]
Duq - v - be stunned, be shocked [in the sense of astonished, astounded, dumbfounded, shocked (stronger than yay)]
DuQ - v - stab
DuQ - v - touch; move [emotionally]
DuQwI` - n - spike
DuQwI`Hommey - n - small spikes on the ~d'k tahg~ pommel
Duran - n - Durani (planet)
Duran lung - n - Durani lizard
Duran lung DIr - n - Durani lizard skins [type of food; never takes plural suffix]
Durghang - n - lock [physical device; requires a key or a code to open]
Durghang qung - n - keyhole
DuS - n - torpedo tube
DuSaQ - n - school
DuSchoHer - n - enzyme
Dut - v - slam down (object is the thing slammed down); stress, emphasize
Duv - v - advance
Duy - n - agent; emissary
Duy` - n - defect
Duy` - v - be defective
Duy`a` - n - ambassador
Du` - n - farm
Du` naH - n - produce
Du`Hom - n - garden
Du`Hom mI` - n - random number (slang)
Du`Qam - n - type of flower (bigger than your normal everyday Du'QamHom)
Du`QamHom - n - type of flower (closest Klingon equivalent to a sunflower)
Du`ran - n - philtrum

e

gh

ghab - v - kill (when on a hunt) [HoH is a general word for kill. ghab means kill as a result of hunting (thus the hunt was a successful one) or when the killing is the result of a planned-out process.]
ghab - n - meat from midsection of animal
ghab tun - n - meat from midsection of animal; no bones [regional]
ghabon - n - Gabon
ghach - v - lurk, lie in wait, lie low (ready to ambush, for example, hidden but posing a threat)
ghagh - v - gargle
ghaH - pro - he; she; him; her
ghaj - v - have; possess
ghajwI` - n - owner
ghal - v - be jealous [of]; envy
ghalmov - n - compound (chemical)
gham - n - limb [of an animal]
ghan - v - be hectic, very active, lively
ghan - v - glance at, take a quick look at
ghanHa` - v - be peaceful, calm
ghanjaq - n - mace [stick; club]
ghanjaq chuS - n - rattle (baby's toy)
ghanroq - n - basis/foundation [underlying support for an idea, argument, or process, depending on context, could also be meq or qolqoS]
ghantoH - n - model; example; pattern
ghang - v - prematurely end [an event; e.g. a voyage; battle; song]
ghangwI` - n - horizon
ghan`ach - n - seizure (epileptic)
ghan`Iq - n - police (force)
ghan`Iq yaS n - police officer
ghap - conj - or; either/or
ghapqa` - n - jaw [May be used for things that resemble anatomical jaws. In such cases, the plural remains ghapqa'Du'.]
ghaptal - n - equator
ghaq - v - contribute; support [financially]
ghaQpey` - n - sex (biological -- this means how a body is originally constructed; male, female, or whatever type of biological sex the species has]
ghar - n - diplomacy
ghar - v - conduct diplomacy
ghargh - n - serpent; worm
gharlIq `oQqar - n - garlic
gharwI` - n - diplomat
ghaS - v - indicate, signal; Y ghaS X (mu`) [the word] X means Y
ghatlh - v - dominate
ghatlhchu`ghach - n - monopoly
ghav - n - carbon
ghav `uSqan - n - steel
ghaw - v - excavate, dig (a hole, trench, ditch, etc.) [use ghaw when the object is the resulting hole; use tlhan when the object is the material being removed]
ghaw` - n - ~igvah~ liver soup
ghaw` - n - gum (oral anatomy) (slang)
ghaw` - n - insecure one; one full of self-doubt; self-doubter [regional;
ghay - n - Klingon ~gh~ sound
ghay - v - spray; bombard; rain down
ghaytan - adv - likely; probably
ghaytanHa` - adv - unlikely
ghay`cha` - excl - [general invective]
gha`cher - n - goat-like creature [Closest Klingon goat analogue]
gha`na - n - Ghana
gha`tlhIq - n - ode of respect
gheb - n - horn [musical instrument]
gheD - n - prey
ghegh - v - be rough
gheH - v - have a temperature of [typical object is a number of SImyon degrees]
ghel - v - ask [a question]
ghem - n - midnight snack
ghene`Da - n - Grenada
ghenlan n - Greenland
ghenraq - n - orchestra [This is for a reasonably large group of instrumentalists. A more general term for a group (of any size) playing music is just QoQ ghom.]
ghep - v - hug, embrace
gher - v - formulate; compile; pull together
gher`ID - n - results, outcome, effect, repercussions, consequence, ramification ["results" with the sense of "score, tally" is mIvwa`mey]
gheS - v - assume duties of; take on responsibilities of
ghet - v - pretend; role-play
ghetwI` - n - pretender
ghevchoq Sep - n - Gevchok region
ghevI` - n - sauce for ~gagh~
ghevjur - n - shovel
ghew - n - bug; cootie; cricket [ghewmey is slang for "punctuation marks".]
ghew Duj - n - helicopter (slang)
ghe` - v - be transformed, transmuted, metamorphosed, totally altered
ghe`naQ - n - opera
ghe`tor - n - ~Gre'thor~ [where spirits of dishonored go]
ghe``or - n - netherworld [where dishonored go]
ghghgh - excl - uh, umm
ghIb - v - consent
ghIch - n - nose
ghIchDep - n - fair, funfair, carnival, circus
ghID - v - pierce, perforate
ghIDwI` - n - perforating device (not like a hole punch)
ghIgh - n - assignment; task; duty [slang]
ghIgh - n - necklace
ghIgh yIvbeH - n - turtleneck
ghIH - v - be messy; be sloppy
ghIj - v - scare
ghIl - v - be the mean, be the average [arithmetic mean]
ghIlab ghew - n - glob fly
ghIlaSnoS - n - an ancient political movement
ghIm - v - exile
ghIn - n - monastery, religious community
ghIn pIn - n - abbot, abbess
ghInebISaw - n - Guinea-Bissau
ghIney`eqwatoryal - n - Equatorial Guinea
ghInjaj - n - Saturday [not used for formal occasions]
ghIntaq - n - battle spear; ~gin'tak~
ghIpDIj - v - court-martial
ghIq - adv - and then; after that; by then; subsequently
ghIqtal - excl - to the death [archaic]
ghIqtu - n - mathematical or chemical formula [representation in symbols]
ghIQ - v - vacation; take a vacation
ghIr - v - descend
ghIrep naH - n - grape
ghIS - v - wriggle, squirm
ghISDen - n - scales [animal covering]
ghISnar - n - grishnar cat
ghIt - n - ax blade; blade of axe
ghIt - n - open; flat hand
ghIt - v - flow (e.g., water), gush, spout; leak (of a leaking liquid: the fuel ~s)
ghItwI` - n - geyser [this is just "gusher, spouter"; if steam is emitted, say SeS ghItwI']
ghItlh - n - manuscript; mark; marks
ghItlh - v - write; engrave; incise; mark [upon]
ghItlh raS - n - desk
ghItlhjaj - n - Wednesday
ghItlhmeH Ho`DoS - n - writing system
ghItlhwI` - n - stylus; writing implement; pen; person who writes
ghItlhwI` `echlet - n - chalkboard, flip chart
ghIv - n - limb (of a person)
ghI`boj Sech - n - Torch of G'boj
ghI`neS - n - Guinness
ghI`nI - n - Guinea
ghI`van - n - gryphon
gho - n - circle
gho - n - hoop
gho lang - n - oval
gho paq - n - binder, notebook (something you can add and remove pages from)
gho SubmaH - n - pi
gho tut - n - cylinder
gho `Impey` - n - cone
ghob - n - ethics; virtue
ghob - v - fight; battle; do battle; wage war
ghobchuq loDnI`pu` - n - The Brothers Fight One Another [famous statue]
ghobe` - excl - no [answer to a question]
ghoch - n - destination
ghoch - v - track; track down
ghochwI` - n - the constellation "Tracker"
ghoD - v - stuff
ghogh - n - voice
ghogh HablI` - n - telephone
ghogh`ot - n - bill, payment request, something you must pay
ghoH - v - argue; dispute
ghoj - v - learn
ghojmeH ghItlhwI` - n - pencil
ghojmeH mIw - n - lesson [like in a textbook -- Lesson 1, Lesson 2, etc.]
ghojmeH taj - n - boy's knife
ghojmoH - v - teach; instruct
ghojmoq - n - nurse; nanny; governess
ghojwI` - n - student
ghol - n - opponent; adversary
gholeq - n - flake
ghom - n - group; party; band [in nonmusical sense] (used only of people)
ghom - v - meet; encounter; assemble; rendezvous
ghomaH - n - pi
ghomHa` - v - scatter; disperse
ghommeH yotlh - n - plaza, courtyard
ghom`a` - n - crowd
ghom`oH - n - slot, slit
ghon - v - sparkle, glitter
ghonDoq - n - type of knife [slender blade]
ghong - n - abuse
ghong - v - abuse; exploit [it does not refer to physical abuse]
ghop - n - hand
ghopDap - n - asteroid
ghop `etlh - n - hand sword (type of blade weapon)
ghoq - v - spy [on]
ghoqwI` - n - spy
ghoQ - v - be fresh; be just killed [meat]; be most recent [slang]
ghor - n - surface [of a planet]
ghor - v - break
ghorgh - q - when?
ghormaghenDer - n - gormagander
ghor`In - n - Gorn
ghoS - v - go onward; approach; go away from; proceed on a course; come;
ghoS - v - thrust (The object of ghoS is the thing that is thrust by the subject.)
ghot - n - person [humanoid]
ghotI` - n - fish
ghov - v - recognize
gho` - v - step on
gho`Do - n - sublight speed
gho`lIv - n - golf
gho`rIch - n - zit, acne, pimple
gho``ong - n - (magic) trick
ghu - n - baby
ghu ghanjaq chuS - n - rattle (baby's toy)
ghub - n - bud (the flower, fruit, or shoot before it develops)
ghubDaQ - n - firstborn
ghuch - v - climax, is not heard as frequently as a couple of slang expressions: meQ (literally, "burn") and HutmaH chav (literally, "achieve 90")
ghuD - v - fellow-X, be in common, be co- (Make use of the verb ghuD "be in common, be co-" (admittedly clumsy definitions). It's used in constructions such as HoDpu' ghuD (literally something like "in-common captains," but a better translation would be "co-captains" or "fellow captains"). One could also say ghuD HoDpu' (literally "the captains are in common" but it really means they share the same status and, perhaps, work together). ghojwI' ghuD would be "a fellow student." puqpu' ghuD might refer to children who are growing up together (whether related or not).)
ghugh - v - vocalize [referring to sound emitted by an animal, but not speech]
ghughugh - v - growl; speak with vocal fry
ghuH - n - alert
ghuH - v - prepare for; be alerted to
ghuHmoH - v - alert; warn
ghuj - v - pivot, swivel [what the doorknob does when you push it down]
ghujmoH - v - pivot, swivel [would you do to a doorknob]
ghul - n - bump, protuberance
ghum - n - alarm
ghum - v - alarm; sound an alarm
ghun - v - be warm
ghun - v - program [a computer] qav`ap DIlmeH beylI` mabwIj ghunlu`ta` My bank pays the fee automatically.
ghunta - n - check, promissory note, IOU [obsolescent]
ghung - v - be hungry
ghungHa` - v - not be hungry anymore
ghunglItlh - n - piston
ghup - v - swallow
ghuQ - n - poem
ghur - v - increase
ghuS - v - be prepared; be ready [to launch]
ghuS - v - lower [spear] to horizontal to attack
ghut - v - predict [based on prophecy or intuition]
ghuv - n - recruit
ghuwan - n - Rouen
ghuwatema`la - n - Guatemala
ghuwongDung Hol - n - Cantonese
ghuy` - excl - damn [curse]
ghuy`cha` - excl - *@$% [curse]
ghu` - n - situation ghu` neS bias
ghu`jarat - n - Gujarat
ghu`lIS - n - entry, item in a list

H

Hab - v - be smooth
HablI` - n - data transceiving device
HabwI` - n - one who is smooth (flat-foreheaded Klingon; term used by children only)
Hach - v - be developed [e.g.; civilization]
HaD - v - study
Hagh - v - laugh
HaH - v - marinade
HaH - v - soak; drench
Haj - v - dread
HajDob - n - leg [served as food] [older or upper-class word]
Hajvav - n - animal like a weasel
Hal - n - source
Hal - v - be porous
Halrov - n - treacle, syrup
Ham - v - be high (in pitch) [as in high voice]
Hamburgh n - Hamburg
Hampong - n - wound, sore [a wound or sore with at least some abrasion, not just a bruise]
Hampong DIr - n - scab (for the plural, use -mey, even if the scab is still attached)
Hampun - v - yodel (does not take an object)
Han - v - be learned, scholarly, erudite
HanDI` - n - cell
HanDogh - n - nacelle
Hanghuq - n - Korea; South Korea
Hap - n - matter; material
Hap choHwI` - n - replicator
HapQeD - n - physics
Haptej - n - physicist
Haq - n - surgery
Haq - v - intervene in [a situation] [slang]
Haq - v - perform surgery [on]; tinker with [slang; used only in the tinkerer really knows what she or he is doing]
Haqtaj - n - scalpel
HaqwI` - n - surgeon
HaQchor - n - saccharin
Har - v - believe
Hargh - v - fight; battle [major confrontation]
HarqIn - n - disorder, disability, syndrome, condition
Har`ey - n - rainbow
HaS - v - squeak [This is not only for animals. It can also be used for the sound an old door or a wooden chest makes when you open it, if it's a sort of high pitch.]
HaSreH - n - pattern, design pattern, markings, motif
HaSta - n - visual display [on monitor]; video
HaSta jIH - n - television
HaSta jIH much - n - TV show
HaSta much - n - TV show
HaStay` - n - pixel
Hat - n - temperature
Hat - v - be illegal
Haw - v - be random, arbitrary, unpredictable, fortuitous [For random numbers, as when throwing dice, use the verb 'al float instead of Haw.]
HawSa Hol - n - Hausa (language)
Haw` - v - flee; get out; run away
Hatlh - n - country; countryside
Hay - n - Klingon ~H~ sound
Hay - n - area beyond [normally used with a point of reference "beyond X"]
Hay - v - somersault [a controlled roll, whereas ron applied to a person would mean they are rolling haphazardly]
HayaStan - n - Armenia
HaySIn - n - bucket [Typically, a HaySIn is round (it could be a 'Ib rutlh) and portable (so it's not a qegh).]
Hay` - v - duel
Hay`chu` - v - duel to the death
Ha` - excl - let's go; come on
Ha`DIbaH - n - animal; meat
Ha`DIbaH - n - dog; cur; inferior person [slang]
Ha`DIbaH ghIH tIr ngogh je - n - hamburger
Ha`on - n - staple
Ha`on vevwI` - n - stapler
Ha`quj - n - baldric; sash
He - n - course; route
Hech - v - intend; mean to
HeD - v - retreat
HeDon - n - parallel course
Hegh - n - death
Hegh - v - die
Heghbat - n - ritual suicide
Heghba` - n - ritual suicide
HeghmoH - v - be fatal
Heghtay - n - death ritual
HeH - n - edge
Hej - v - rob
HejwI` - n - robber
HelSIngqIy - n - Helsinki
Hem - v - be proud
Hen - v - be experienced [in the sense of involvement in, exposure to, familiarity with, hands-on dealing with a given area of knowledge or type of skill]
Henjun - n - whip [For the verb "whip", make use of Qach wield.]
Heng - v - finger [holes; strings of instrument] to vary sound
Heq - v - hail (weather)
HeqqIv - n - cliché, trope, stereotype
HeQ - v - comply
Hergh - n - medicine
Hergh ngevwI` - n - chemist; apothecary
Hergh QaywI` - n - hypo; pneumatic hypo
Herghqoq - n - placebo
HerghwI` - n - hypo; pneumatic hypo
Hervachqa - n - Croatia
Her`IS - n - bird with a long neck, long legs (like a flamingo)
HeS - n - crime
HeS - v - commit a crime
HeSwI` - n - criminal
Hev - v - receive
Hew - n - statue
Hew chenmoHwI` - n - sculptor
Hey - v - battle or fight against one's own group (not the supposed enemy)
HeySel - n - atom
Hey` - v - censor
He` - v - smell; emit odor
He`So` - v - stink
HghHghHgh - excl - ha ha ha
HIch - n - handgun; gun
HIchDal - n - airlock
HID - v - sweat, perspire
HIDjolev - n - menu
HIgh - v - fight dirty
HIj - v - deliver; transport goods
HIja` - excl - yes; true [answer to yes/no question]
HIjmeH chaw` - n - stamp
HIjmeH `ap - n - fee paid when bringing certain commodities into a jurisdiction\
HIjmeH `ap pIn - n - customs officer
HIjwI` - n - delivery person
HIl - v - make someone's presence known
HIl`aD - n - step-by-step instructions [HIl'aD is singular; several sets of instructions is HIl'aDmey.]
HIl`egh - v - make yourself's presence known
HInDIy Hol - n - Hindi
HIq - n - liquor; ale; beer; wine
HIq qIj - n - black ale (like a stout)
HIp - n - uniform
HIr - v - be stuck [like a stamp is stuck to an envelope or a spitwad is stuck on a wall]
HIS - v - be compressed (as in air)
HISlaH - excl - yes; true [answer to yes/no question]
HIt - v - think [have an inner conversation]
HItlh - v - be brittle
HIv - v - attack
HIvDuj - n - attack fighter [vessel]
HIvHe - n - attack course
HIvje` - n - glass [tumbler]; mug
HIvje` bom - n - drinking song
HIvje`He - n - piano in a piano bar
HIvneS - v - honor-attack [suicide mission]
HI` - n - dictator
HI`tuy - n - dictatorship
Hob - v - yawn
Hoch - n - everyone; all; everything; each; every
Hoch Holmey mughwI` - n - universal translator
HochDIch - num - allth; final; last
HochHom - n - most; greater part
Hochlogh - adv - all times; always [emphatic]
HoD - n - captain
Hogh - n - week [Klingon]
HoH - n - killing
HoH - v - kill
HoH`egh - v - commit suicide
Hoj - v - be cautious
HojnIy - n - teen, teenager, adolescent, youth, young adult
Hol - n - language
Hol ghoQ - n - slang; "fresh language" [mostly used by younger Klingons]
HolQeD - n - linguistics
Holtej - n - linguist
Hom - n - bone
Hom - n - weakling; runt; scrawny one; skinny one [slang]
Hom - v - use the second toe [archaic]
HomHap tun - n - cartilage
HommaH - n - appendix (of a book)
HomwI` - n - second toe
Hon - v - doubt
Hong - n - impulse power
Hong boq chuyDaH - n - impulse fusion thrusters
Hongghor - n - impulse drive
Hop - v - be remote; be far
Hoq - n - expedition
Hoqra` - n - tricorder
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
HoQ - v - be honored falsely; be falsely honorable
HoS - n - strength; energy; power; amplitude
HoS - v - be strong
HoS choHwI` - n - transtator
HoS voveng - n - thyroid
HoSchem - n - energy field
HoSDo` - n - energy beings
HoSghaj - v - be powerful
Hot - v - touch; feel
Hotnagh - n - basalt
Hotlh - v - project; put on [screen]
Hotlh - v - scan
HotlhwI` - n - scanner
Hov - n - star
Hov lat - n - star shrine
Hov leng QeD - n - Treknology
Hov leng tej - n - Treknologist
Hov tut - n - telescope (layman's term)
Hovje`voH - n - evolution (Darwinian), technical or scientific term
HovpoH - n - stardate
HovQeD - n - astronomy
Hovtay` - n - star system
Hovtej - n - astronomer
Hoy - v - be refined, be fancy, be sophisticated [pertaining to culture]
Hoy` - v - congratulate
Ho` - n - idol [slang]
Ho` - n - tooth; cog/sprocket teeth
Ho` - v - admire
Ho` rutlh - n - cog/sprocket wheel
Ho` SIryoD - n - braces (on teeth)
Ho` teywI` - n - toothbrush
Ho` `etlh - n - serrated blade [e.g.; ~kut'luch~]
Ho`DoS - n - system, method, manner, technique
Ho`Du` Say`moHwI` tlhagh - n - toothpaste
Ho`latbeD - n - raison d'être / ikigai
Ho`yI` - n - bow (for arrows)
Ho``oy` - n - toothache
Hu - n - zoo
Hu - excl - uh, umm
Hub - n - defense
Hub - v - defend
HubneS - v - honor-defend [suicide mission]
Huch - n - money
Huch chaw` - n - credit card
Huch jengva` - n - coin [literally "money plate"; often, not always, followed by -Hom.]
Huch nav - n - bill; banknote
Huch ngop - n - coins [literally "money plates"; often, not always, followed by -Hom]
HuchQeD - n - economics
Huchtej - n - economist
HuD - n - mountain; hill; breast [slang]
HuDngech - n - sine (curve) [used to describes waves or curves and also in trigonometry]
HuDyar - n - shed, shack
HuD beQ yoS - n - Flat Mountain district [in Sakrej region]
Hugh - n - throat
HuH - n - gall; bile; slime
Huj - v - be strange, unfamiliar
Huj - v - charge [up]
Hum - v - be sticky
Human - n - human
Humlaw` - n - animal like a ghargh, but with lots of wiggly legs
Hun - n - type of animal; ~khrun~
Hung - n - security
Hup - v - punish
Huq - v - transact
HuqmeH `ap - n - excise tax, sales tax, VAT
HuQ`am - n - gender (identity -- this might different from the anatomical sex of a being, and refers to the gender that person identifies with)
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.
Hur - n - outside
HurDagh - n - stringed instrument [general term]
HurDagh chuHwI` - n - bow (for arrows) (not a Klingon device), lit. "stringed-instrument hurler"
Hurgh - n - pickle [cucumber]
Hurgh - v - be dark
Hurgh Duj - n - submarine, blimp
HurwI` - n - bow (for arrows) (not a Klingon device) (short form)
Hur`Iq - n - outsider; foreigner [slang]
Hur`Iqngan - n - Hur'q [person]
HuS - v - hang (transitive, as in hanging shoes on a wall)
Hut - num - nine
HutbIp - num - nine hundred thousand
HutbIpDIch - num - nine hundred thousandth
HutbIp`uy` - num - nine hundred billion
HutbIp`uy`DIch - num - nine hundred billionth
HutDIch - num - ninth
HutmaH - num - ninety
HutmaH - n - sexual climax (slang)
HutmaH chav - v - climax [slang]
HutmaHDIch - num - ninetieth
HutmaHSaghan - num - ninety billion
HutmaHSaghanDIch - num - ninety billionth
HutmaH`uy` - num - ninety million
HutmaH`uy`DIch - num - ninety millionth
Hutnetlh - num - ninety thousand
HutnetlhDIch - num - ninety thousandth
Hutnetlh`uy` - num - ninety billion
Hutnetlh`uy`DIch - num - ninety billionth
HutSaD - num - nine thousand
HutSaDbIp - num - nine thousand million
HutSaDbIpDIch - num - nine thousand millionth
HutSaDDIch - num - nine thousandth
HutSaDSaghan - num - nine trillion
HutSaDSaghanDIch - num - nine trillionth
HutSaghan - num - nine billion
HutSaghanDIch - num - nine billionth
HutSanID - num - nine thousand
HutSanIDbIp - num - nine thousand million
HutSanIDbIpDIch - num - nine thousand millionth
HutSanIDDIch - num - nine thousandth
HutSanIDSaghan - num - nine trillion
HutSanIDSaghanDIch - num - nine trillionth
Hutvagh - excl - too many people/things in a place all at once
Hutvatlh - num - nine hundred
HutvatlhbIp - num - ninety million
HutvatlhbIpDIch - num - ninety millionth
HutvatlhDIch - num - nine hundredth
HutvatlhSaghan - num - nine hundred billion
HutvatlhSaghanDIch - num - nine hundred billionth
Hutvatlh`uy` - num - nine hundred million
Hutvatlh`uyDIch - num - nine hundred millionth
Hutvav - n - nerve (anatomy, physiology)
Hutvav rarwI` - n - neural synapse
Hut`uy` - num - nine million
Hut`uy`DIch - num - nine millionth
Hut`In - n - nail [for carpentry]
Hut`In vIl - n - screw
Hut`on - n - byte
Hut reD mey` - n - enneagon
Hutlh - v - lack; be without; to not have jIb Hutlh be bald
Huv - v - be clear; be not obstructed; be excellent (slang)
Huy - v - be spicy, be piquant, be hot; (slang) be randy, be horny
Huy - v - hum [can be used both for singing without words and for the sound a (not huge) engine makes]; purr [the sound of a cat]
Huy` - n - eyebrow
Huy`Dung - n - forehead [regional]
Hu` - n - days ago
Hu` - v - get up
Hu`ma - excl - uh, umm
Hu`mI - excl - uh, umm
Hu`tegh - excl - [general invective]

I

j

jab - v - serve [food]
jabbI`ID - n - data transmission
jabwI` - n - food server; waiter; waitress
jach - v - scream; cry out; shout; yell; crow
jaD - v - throw around; hurl about
jaDchu` - v - juggle (objects, not tasks)
jagh - n - enemy
jaghIv - n - rhythm
jaghla` - n - enemy commander
jaH - v - go; travel
jaj - n - day [from dawn to dawn]
jaj wa` - n - Sunday
jajlo` - n - dawn
jajlo` chum - n - sunrise
jajlo` Qa` - n - type of animal [makes a ruckus at dawn]
jajvam - n - today
jal - v - imagine, envision
jame`qa - n - Jamaica
jamjuD - n - bounty
jamtlhach - n - phosphorus
jan - n - device
jan - n - musical instrument
janbI` - n - slope [mathematical term]
janIj - n - bra
jantor - n - witness [one who has actually seen or been part of an event, eyewitness]
jang - v - answer; reply
jaq - v - be bold
jaqmoH - v - embolden
jaqtala` - n - puberty, jak'tahla (Klingon)
jaQ - v - be deep
jaQHa` - v - be shallow
jar - n - month [Klingon]
jargh - n - forehead [regional]
jaS - adv - differently
jat - n - tongue
jat - v - speak incoherently; mumble [slang]
jatyIn - n - spiritual possession
jat Hol - n - gibberish
jatlh - v - say; tell; speak jatlh; ghughughwI` speak with vocal fry
jatlhwI` - n - speaker (person)
jav - n - prisoner [slang]
jav - n - sixth tone of nonatonic musical scale
jav - num - six
jav mIS - n - confused prisoner
jav reD mey` - n - hexagon
jav reD `Impey` - n - pyramid [with six-sided base]
javbIp - num - six hundred thousand
javbIpDIch - num - six hundred thousandth
javbIp`uy` - num - six hundred billion
javbIp`uy`DIch - num - six hundred billionth
javDIch - num - sixth
javmaH - num - sixty
javmaHDIch - num - sixtieth
javmaHSaghan - num - sixty billion
javmaHSaghanDIch - num - sixty billionth
javmaH`uy` - num - sixty million
javmaH`uy`DIch - num - sixty millionth
javnetlh - num - sixty thousand
javnetlhDIch - num - sixty thousandth
javnetlh`uy` - num - sixty billion
javnetlh`uy`DIch - num - sixty billionth
javSaD - num - six thousand
javSaDbIp - num - six thousand million
javSaDbIpDIch - num - six thousand millionth
javSaDDIch - num - six thousandth
javSaDSaghan - num - six trillion
javSaDSaghanDIch - num - six trillionth
javSaghan - num - six billion
javSaghanDIch - num - six billionth
javSanID - num - six thousand
javSanIDbIp - num - six thousand million
javSanIDbIpDIch - num - six thousand millionth
javSanIDDIch - num - six thousandth
javSanIDSaghan - num - six trillion
javSanIDSaghanDIch - num - six trillionth
javtIm - n - virus
javtIm raS`IS - n - vaccine
javvatlh - num - six hundred
javvatlhbIp - num - sixty million
javvatlhbIpDIch - num - sixty millionth
javvatlhDIch - num - six hundredth
javvatlhSaghan - num - six hundred billion
javvatlhSaghanDIch - num - six hundred billionth
javvatlh`uy` - num - six hundred million
javvatlh`uyDIch` - num - six hundred millionth
jav`uy` - num - six million
jav`uy`DIch - num - six millionth
jaw - n - lord
jaw - v - chat
jay - n - Klingon ~j~ sound
jay` - adv - intensely [invective]
ja` - v - tell; report
ja`chuq - n - succession ritual [ancient]
ja`chuq - v - discuss; confer
je - conj - also; and; too
jech - n - disguise; costume
jech - v - disguise
jeD - v - be thick; be dense; be viscous
jegh - v - surrender; give up; capitulate; acquiesce; cave in; back eown; throw in the towel
jeghwar - n - jaguar
jeH - v - be absentminded
jej - v - be sharp
jejHa` - v - be dull; be blunt [of blades]
jejSIp - n - acetylene
jel v - shake, tremble [intransitive]
jelwaS - n - iodine
jem - v - sense, feel, perceive, detect [jemHa` or jemlaHbe` is to be numb emotionally.]
jem`IH - v - castle (a building built for protection or fortification)
jen - v - be high
jengva` - n - plate [for eating]; disk
jentu` - n - bird, type of bird [aquatic, flightless]
jeq - v - protrude from
jeqpel - n - push-up
jeqqIj - n - club; bludgeon
jeQ - v - be self-confident
jer - v - be surging; be moving forwards or backwards suddenly [about-face]
jergh - v - spasm
jerghmoH - v - cause something to spasm
jeS - v - participate
jeS - n - jazz
jeS QoQ - n - jazz
jeS `e` Sap - v - sign up (for an event)
jev - v - storm
jev - v - wheeze; breathe noisily
jey - n - itinerary
jey - v - defeat
jey` - n - tin
jey` Sorpuq - n - bronze
jey`naS - n - double-headed ax; ax with double head
jey`naS ghoqwI` - n - double agent [slang]
je` - v - buy; purchase
je` - v - feed [someone else]
je`ton - n - counter; workbench
je`wagh`en - n - bug resembling a louse
jIb - n - hair [on head]
jIb - v - lynch, hang (execution)
jIb Ho`Du` - n - comb
jIb yachwI` - n - hairbrush
jIbutIy - n - Djibouti
jIb`egh - v - commit suicide by hanging
jIH - n - viewing screen; monitor
jIH - pro - I; me
jIH - v - monitor
jIj - v - be cooperative
jIj - v - cooperate
jIl - n - neighbor
jIm - v - be heaving; be moving up or down; be descending or ascending; shrug
jIn - v - wish
jIn - v - brew
jIn yopwaH - n - jeans
jInaq - n - amulet symbolizing a girl's coming of age
jInay` - n - J'naii (planet)
jInay`ngan - n - J'naii (people)
jInbo` - n - bias
jInjoq - n - type of Klingon bread
jInmol - n - project
jInmol pa` - n - studio, workspace, atelier
jIp - n - penalty
jIqlem - n - strap
jIqlem waq - n - sandal
jIr - v - rotate; twirl; jIr qIvon (slang) be randy, be horny
jIr - excl - Whoop-dee-doo!, La-dee-dah!, Who cares?!, Big deal!
jIrmoH - v - twirl ~bat'leth~; cause ~bat'leth~ to rotate; crank; turn (a doorknob)
jIrwI` Duj - n - helicopter (slang)
jItuj`ep - n - mummy
jItuj`ep ngutlh - n - mummification glyph
jIv - v - be ignorant
jIvvo` - n - evil criminal, villain, malefactor
jIy - v - be umami, be savory, be earthy
jIyeStaS - n - inflammation
jIyweS - n - translation, gloss [a quick tag to give an idea of what the word means, not a complete definition]
jI`ev - n - handle, knob, doorknob
jo - n - resources
job - v - zigzag, be jagged
joch - v - be harmful
joD - v - stoop
jogh - n - quadrant
joH - n - Lady [female head of house]; Lord [male head of house]
joj - n - area between
jojlu` - n - consul
jol - n - transport beam
jol - v - beam [aboard]
jolpat - n - transporter system
jolpa` - n - transport room
jolvoy` - n - transporter ionizer unit
jom - v - install [a device]
jon - v - capture; fish, be fishing
jonpIn - n - engineering officer
jonSeH yaH - n - engineering (location) [where the engines are controlled]
jonta` - n - engine
jonwI` - n - engineer
jop - v - lunge; thrust jopDI` `ovwI` veb, `echletHom tlhap When the next player takes his/her turn, he/she takes a card. ngop yISay`moH! yIjop! Clean the plates! It's your turn!
joq - conj - or; and/or
joq - v - flap; flutter; wave
joqmoH - v - wave a fan [or anything else]
joqwI` - n - flag
joQ - n - rib
joQ - n - strip of material in a ~susdek~ instrument
jor - v - explode
jorchan - n - view, scene, scenery, sight, landscape
jorchan velqa` - n - scenery, stage decoration
jorja - n - Georgia [US state]
jorneb - n - warhead [of a torpedo]
jornub - n - warhead [of a torpedo]
jorwI` - n - explosive; bomb
joS - n - rumor; gossip
joS - v - gossip
joSraD - n - crater
jot - v - be calm
jotHa` - v - be uneasy
jotlh - v - take down
joy` - v - torture
jo` - v - inflate, fill with air, blow up [It's not the same as SuS -- you're blowing into/onto/at something, but the air gets out of the thing (or never goes in it)]; zoom in on (the object is the image)
jo` - n - machinery
jo`Ha` - v - zoom out (applied to something that was previously zoomed in on)
jo`ley` - n - tent
jub - v - be immortal
jubbe` - v - be mortal
juch - v - have a width of; have a diameter of
juH - n - home
juH qach - n - house
juHqo` - n - home world
jul - n - sun [general term]
julHom - n - yolk (slang)
julSIp - n - helium
jum - v - be odd, peculiar, unexpected, fishy
jun - v - evade; take evasive action
jungwoq - n - China
jup - n - friend
juS - v - overtake; pass
jutngev - n - nectar
juv - v - measure
ju'pIter - n - Jupiter
jva - n - confused prisoner [written abbreviation for jav mIS]

l

lab - v - transmit data [away from a place]
lach - v - exaggerate
lachvoH - n - bee hive
laD - v - read
lagh - n - ensign
lagh - v - take apart; disassemble
laH - n - ability
laj - n - acceptance
laj - v - accept
lajQo` - v - reject
lalDan - n - religion
lam - n - dirt
lam - v - be dirty
lam Ho`Du` - n - rake (for the ground)
lan - v - place
lanDan - n - London
lanSoy - n - row or line, queue [...it is expected that the row or line of people or things is (or will be or might be) in motion, one member of the row following the other, and eventually the row diminishes until it's gone.]
lang - v - be thin; be narrow
lap - v - vote, cast a ballot [This is to vote in an election or to vote for a motion. It does not mean "express an opinion" (as in I vote for pizza for lunch -- unless a formal vote is actually taken, not an informal survey)]
laq - v - flap [about bird's wings]
laq - v - speak gibberish [slang]
laqlaq - n - gibberish [slang]
laQ - v - fire; energize [e.g.; thrusters]
largh - v - smell; sense odors
larveS - n - pus
laS - v - ink up, put paint on a brush
laSvargh - n - factory
lat - n - shrine; monument, memorial (building)
latIyna Hol - n - Latin (language)
latvIya - n - Latvia
latlh - n - additional one; other one
latlh je - n - et cetera, etc.
latlh latlh latlh - n - et cetera, etc. [informal]
lav - v - lean, incline, slant
lav - n - shrub
law - v - nogree (1/243 of a circle)
law chu` - n - degree (1/360 of a circle)
lawrI` - n - degree (1/360 of a circle) [sometimes called law chu', though with increasing rarity] X lawrI` `ab. It is at latitude X degrees. Y lawrI' juch. It is at longitude Y degrees.
law` - v - be many; be numerous; be much
lay - n - Klingon ~l~ sound
lay - n - air (technical term)
lay` - v - promise
lay leng - n - aeronautics
laybIrya` - n - Liberia
layyan - n - lion
lay`Ha` - v - break one's word
la` - n - commander
la`avghe - n - Le Havre
la`Dan Hol - n - Laádan
la`pIy - n - Lapland
la`qab - n - whistling sound (a whistling sound produced by using one's mouth and lips (and perhaps fingers, but no device))
la`quv - n - Supreme Commander
la`SIv - n - type of animal [similar to a turtle]
la`yIgh - n - spice
la``a` - n - commandant
lech - v - blackmail (the object of lech is the person being targeted)
lechtal - n - [traditional term for coordinates]
lechvI` - n - [traditional term for coordinates]
leD - v - be perpendicular
legh - v - see
leH - n - maintenance
leH - v - maintain
lel - v - get out; take out
lem - n - hoof
len - n - recess; break
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.
leng - n - trip; voyage
leng - v - roam; travel; rove
leng buq - n - suitcase
leng chach mab - n - trip insurance ["voyage emergency contract"]
leng chaw` - n - passport
leng Soj - n - fast food
lengwI` - n - rover [grammatical term]
lep - n - solid (state of matter)
leQ - n - switch; mouse button
ler - v - wobble, oscillate [...can be used for a pendulum regardless of whether the pivot is at the top or bottom (or somewhere else)]
lerchu' - v - oscillate (like a metronome)
lerup - n - bacterium, bacteria
lervaD - n - auction
leS - n - days from now
leS - v - rest; relax
leSpal - n - type of stringed instrument (like a guitar)
leSpoH - n - shore leave
leSSov - n - foresight
leSu`tu - n - Lesotho
let - v - be hard [like a rock]
letbaQ - n - rectangle
letbIng - n - mercury
letSeburgh - n - Luxembourg
letlh - n - stairs; stairway
letlh - n - stairway leading to door of a ship [regional]
lev - n - roof of mouth; hard palate
lev - v - move ~bat'leth~ from vertical to horizontal orientation
lew - v - bloom (used for flowers, but can also be used for leaves)
ley` - n - nose [regional]
le` - v - be special; be exceptional
le`be` - v - be unexceptional; be nonspecific
le`mIS - n - blockade
le`yo` - n - pride
lIb - v - be impending, be imminent, loom
lIbnen - n - Lebanon
lIbya` - n - Libya
lIch - v - pour [into/onto something]
lID - v - travel or move a specified or measurable distance or trajectory or angle [used with verbs of movement that don't take distance or trajectory as their object]
lIgh - v - ride
lIghongan - n - Ligonian
lIghon - n - Ligon
lIghon DuQwI` pogh - n - glavin; Ligonian spike glove
lIghonngan - n - Ligonian
lIghonya` - n - Ligon
lIghonya`ngan - n - Ligonian
lIH - v - introduce; begin a song
lIHtentay` - n - Liechtenstein
lIj - v - forget
lIl - v - simulate, impersonate
lIlwI` - n - simulator
lIm - v - panic
lIn - v - share [C (lu)lIn A B je: A and B share C; lInchuq implies a physical relationship of some sort]]
lInDab - n - espionage
lIng - v - produce
lIngta` - n - type of animal; ~lingta~
lIngwaDepIlane`ta Hol - n - Lingwa de Planeta
lIngwavIrangqano`va Hol - n - Lingua Franca Nova
lIngwa`Ighno`ta Hol - n - Lingua Ignota
lIngwI` - n - generator
lIq - v - round up
lIQ - v - be stuck [like when you can't solve an algebra problem or a crossword puzzle]
lIr - n - type of bird [nocturnal]
lIS - v - adjust
lIS`ab - n - Klingon rodent [This animal is more rat-sized than mouse-sized, but a vIghro' might well chase it. Its face kind of resembles that of a bat (though a bat is not a rodent).]
lIt - v - get on [to]
lItHa` - v - get off [of]
lIvqa`nan - n - doorframe [something constructed to hold a door or gate, whether the door/gate is there or not]
lIvrI` - n - granite
lIw - n - substitute; stand-in; temporary surrogate
lIw mu` - n - pronoun (applies to full words only, not prefixes)
lIwnal - n - concubine [. . . the cultural connotations are a bit different since, in Klingon culture, everything associated with a lIwnal lacks honor, and this is not necessarily the case for a (Terran) king's concubines or courtesans. Note that only married people could have a partner who could be considered a lIwnal. Also, lIwnal could be male or female, so if it's necessary to distinguish, say loD lIwnal or be` lIwnal.]
lIy - n - comet
lIyetu`va` - n - Lithuania
lI` - v - be useful
lI` - v - transmit data [to a place]
lI`choD - n - plasma (state of matter)
lI`HemvI` - n - dopamine
lI`lIy - n - lily
lob - v - obey
lobHa` - v - disobey
loch - n - mustache
loch - v - be a fraction of, make up a portion of, constitute part of [wej loch cha` 2/3; vagh loch wej 3/5; loS loch jav 6/4. In theory, if appropriate in a mathematical discussion, one could say wa` loch wej three one-ths. (Though perhaps a little grammatically aberrant, this would not be wa` luloch wej.)]
loD - n - male; man; boy (young man)
loDHom - n - boy (male child)
loDnal - n - husband
loDnI` - n - brother
loDnI` be`nal - n - brother-in-law (wife's brother)
loDnI` loDnal - n - brother-in-law (husband's brother)
loDnI`nal - n - brother-in-law
logh - n - space
logh chal je `angweD - n - planetarium
logh chal je `angweD qach - n - planetarium (building)
loghjaj - n - Thursday
loghqam - n - [unit of length, 1.25 light-years]
logh mIn - n - wormhole
logh`ob - n - chest [the upper front of the torso]; the front of something; hood, bonnet (of a car)
loH - n - administration
loH - v - administer
loHjan - n - CPU
loj - v - be all gone
lojban Hol - n - Lojban
lojmIt - n - door; gate
lojmItjaj - n - Saturday
lol - n - a specific ~Mok'bara~ position
lol - v - be in an attitude; be in a stance; be in a pose
lolchu` - v - be in a correct attitude
lolchu`taH - v - maintain a correct attitude
lolmoH - v - maneuver [an aircraft]
lolSeHcha - n - attitude-control thrusters
loltaH - v - maintain an attitude
lom - n - corpse
lon - v - abandon
lop - n - celebration
lop - v - observe; celebrate [a ritual]
lopno` - n - party; celebration
loq - v - be extinct [referring to animals, like dinosaurs]
loQ - adv - slightly; a little bit
loQHa` - adv - considerably, appreciably
lor - n - cousin (mother's brother's child or father's sister's child), niece or nephew (man's sister's child or woman's brother's child)
lorbe` - n - female cousin (mother's brother's daughter or father's sister's daughter), niece (man's sister's daughter or woman's brother's daughter)
lorloD - n - male cousin (mother's brother's son or father's sister's son), nephew (man's sister's son or woman's brother's son)
loS - n - fourth tone of nonatonic musical scale
loS - num - four
loS - v - wait [for]
loS reD mey` - n - quadrilateral
loS reD `Impey` - n - pyramid [with four-sided base]
loS Sonme` quartet, quadruplet
loSbIp - num - four hundred thousand
loSbIpDIch - num - four hundred thousandth
loSbIp`uy` - num - four hundred billion
loSbIp`uy`DIch - num - four hundred billionth
loScha` - n - coincidence [The verb usually associated with this is qaS occur, happen.]
loSDIch - num - fourth
loSmaH - num - forty
loSmaHDIch - num - fortieth
loSmaHSaghan - num - forty billion
loSmaHSaghanDIch - num - forty billionth
loSmaH`uy` - num - forty million
loSmaH`uy`DIch - num - forty millionth
loSnetlh - num - forty thousand
loSnetlhDIch - num - forty thousandth
loSnetlh`uy` - num - forty billion
loSnetlh`uy`DIch - num - forty billionth
loSpev - n - quadrotriticale
loSSaD - num - four thousand
loSSaDbIp - num - four thousand million
loSSaDbIpDIch - num - four thousand millionth
loSSaDDIch - num - four thousandth
loSSaDSaghan - num - four trillion
loSSaDSaghanDIch - num - four trillionth
loSSaghan - num - four billion
loSSaghanDIch - num - four billionth
loSSanID - num - four thousand
loSSanIDbIp - num - four thousand million
loSSanIDbIpDIch - num - four thousand millionth
loSSanIDDIch - num - four thousandth
loSSanIDSaghan - num - four trillion
loSSanIDSaghanDIch - num - four trillionth
loSvatlh - num - four hundred
loSvatlhbIp - num - forty million
loSvatlhbIpDIch - num - forty millionth
loSvatlhDIch - num - four hundredth
loSvatlhSaghan - num - four hundred billion
loSvatlhSaghanDIch - num - four hundred billionth
loSvatlh`uy` - num - four hundred million
loSvatlh`uyDIch - num - four hundred millionth
loS`uy` - num - four million
loS`uy`DIch - num - four millionth
lot - v - scratch
lot - n - catastrophe
lotregh - n - anemia, anaemia
lotlh - v - rebel
lotlhmoq - n - type of bird [swoops into the water to catch food; but cannot swim]
lotlhwI` - n - rebel
loy - v - guess
loy` - v - have personality, be charismatic, be charming [refers to positive personal characteristics]
lo` - n - use
lo` - v - use
lo` law` - n - utility [precedes noun it modifies]
lo`laH - v - be valuable
lo`laHbe` - v - be worthless
lo`laHbe`ghach - n - worthlessness
lo`laHghach - n - value
lu - v - fall [suffer loss of status]
luch - n - equipment; gear
lugh - v - be right; be correct; be in the right; be moral, be proper, be appropriate, be suitable
lughbe` - v - be wrong (of behavior); be immoral, be improper, be inappropriate, be unsuitable
luH - n - intestine
luH - v - cause [someone] to confess or reveal a secret; exact a confession
luH - v - yank
luHwI` tIH - n - tractor beam
luj - v - fail; lose [not win]
lujwI` mIr - n - losing streak
lul - v - fight; battle [relatively major fight]
lulIgh - n - refuge
lum - v - postpone; procrastinate
lun - v - swell, swell up
lung - n - type of animal; dragon; ~loong~ [lizardlike]
lunglIH - n - turbine, propeller
lunglIH Duj - n - helicopter
lungrI` - n - longitude Y lungrI`. (It is at) longitude Y.
lungrI`tal - n - meridian
lungtal - n - traditional term for coordinates
lungvI` - n - traditional term for coordinates
lup - n - second [of time]
lup - v - transport
lupDujHom - n - shuttlecraft
lupwI` - n - jitney; bus
lupwI` mIr - n - train
luq - excl - yes; okay; I will
luqlev - n - curfew
lur - n - pupil [of eye]
lurDech - n - tradition
lurgh - n - direction [spatial]
luS - n - be submerged in, immersed in, surrounded by
luSpet - n - black hole [astronomical phenomenon]
lut - n - story
lut rorgh - n - fairy tale
lut mIr - n - series (literature, television)
lutlh - v - be primitive
luvnup - n - daydream
lu` - excl - yes; okay; I will
lu`lap - n - beep noise lu`lap tlhen to beep

m

mab - n - treaty, agreement, contract, commitment
mab - n - account [information associated with personal access to a computer system]
mabeb - n - toad-like or frog-like creature [A mabeb resembles frogs and toads, but is neither one, really.]
mach - v - be small
maDaghaSqIyar - n - Madagascar
maDyar - n - Hungary
magh - v - betray
magh - n - Klingon plant that most closely resembles grass
maghpub - n - novel
maghrIb - n - Morocco
maghwI` - n - traitor
magh yotlh - n - lawn
maH - num - ten
maH - pro - we; us
maHnaD - n - protein
maHpIn - n - bowl [large]
maj - excl - good [expressing satisfaction]
majaj - n - cabbage, lettuce (closest Klingon equivalent closer to lettuce than to cabbage, but could be used for either Terran plant)
majQa` - excl - well done; very good
majyang - n - tile
majyang mIllogh - n - mosaic
majyang mutlhwI` - n - tiler
mala`wIy - n - Malawi
maleSya` - n - Malaysia
malja` - n - business
malta - n - Malta
mang - n - soldier [a warrior who is part of a unit]
manggha - n - station (train) [Place where a medium/long range transport arrive and depart.]
mangghom - n - army
mangHom - n - cadet
mangtay - n - Thailand
maq - v - proclaim
maqDar - n - mak'dar, Klingon insult
maqIy - n - Maquis (Resistance)
maqoch - n - buddy; pal; close male friend of a male
maqSung - n - bee, wasp (To distinguish, say DayqIr maqSung and maqSung qej)
maqSung qej - n - wasp
maqSung SoS - n - queen (bee)
maqSung SoS`a` - n - queen (bee)
maQ - n - sign,* omen
maQlegh - n - priest [This is gender-neutral. In translating, if a distinction between "priest" and "priestess" is required, add loD or be'.]
maQmIgh - n - dark omen; sign of evil coming
mar - v - use the big toe [first toe] [archaic]
marIS - n - Mars
marQen - n - eddy (in water)
marvargh - n - Klingon ballet
marwI` - n - big toe; first toe
maS - n - moon
maS - v - prefer
maS loQHa` So`lu`bogh - n - crescent moon
maSIr - n - Egypt
maSmelo` - n - marshmallow
maSmelo` Su`ghar Sawqe` - n - marshmallow
maSquwa` - n - Moscow
maSwov - n - moonlight
maS`e` loQ So`be`bogh QIb - n - crescent moon
maS`e` So`bogh pagh - n - full moon
maS So`lu`chu`bogh - n - new moon
matHa` - n - gunner
matSu` - n - commando
matlh - v - be loyal
matlhHa` - v - be disloyal
mavje` - n - liver [regional]
mavjop - n - paper clip
maw - v - offend
maw` - v - be crazy
may - n - Klingon ~m~ sound
may - v - be fair
mayqar - n - braid, knotwork
maySon - n - superconductivity maySon chIw be superconductive
mayvIm - n - embryo
may` - n - battle [an individual battle]
may` bom - n - battle song
may` rImbey - n - adrenaline, epinephrine
may` Sut - n - body armor
may`Duj - n - battle cruiser
may`luch - n - battle gear; panoply; complete set of armor and weapons
may`morgh - n - battle array (a set of equipment, perhaps including uniforms; not a formation of soldiers)
may`ron - n - accordion; concertina
may`ron raS - n - piano
ma` - v - accommodate
ma`egh - n - premiere (either the situation or the event)
ma`lI` - n - fiber
ma`lIy - n - Mali
ma`veq - n - type of ceremonial knife; ~mevak~ [used in the ~Mauk-To'Vor~]
meb - n - guest
mebpa`mey - n - hotel
mech - v - trade
megh - n - lunch
megh`an - n - end [of stick; piece of string etc.; opposite 'er'In]
meH - n - bridge [of a ship]
meHghem - n - arts, the arts, culture [A bigger, more comprehensive term covering "the arts" or "art" as opposed to "science." So it includes music, theater, dance, etc. as well as visual art. It's "culture" in this sense.]
meHghem Qat - n - pop culture
mej - v - leave; depart [refers simply to leaving one's current location]
mejnay - n - apron
mej`aD - n - artery
melchoQ - n - marrow; bone marrow
mel`ogh - n - chrysalis; anything that's in the process of becoming something else
mem - n - catalog
men - v - have an area of
mentIy Hol - n - Mänti
menggho` naH - n - mango
mep - n - plastic
meq - n - reason; motive; logical thinking; topic, subject, theme [of a conversation, story, etc.]
meq - v - reason
meqba` - n - type of legal proceeding (portion of the trial or appeal where evidence is heard); ~Mek'ba~
meqHoD - n - bypass
meqleH - n - type of weapon; ~mek'leth~
meqro`vaq - n - Mekro'vak [region]
meQ - v - burn; [slang] climax
meQHam - adv - ironically, counterintuitively, incongruously
mer - v - surprise
mergh - v - be combined, mixed together [also for superposition in physics]
meS - n - knot
meS - v - knot; encrypt (slang)
meSchuS - n - large wind instrument
meSHa` - v - decrypt (slang)
mev - v - stop; cease
mevyap - excl - stop; [it is] enough
mew` - v - cope; cope with; deal (well) with; handle
mey - v - match, fit onto, interlock with, interface with, mesh with [To talk about a sock (or glove or….) matching (that is fitting onto) a foot (or hand or…), use the verb mey.]
mey` - n - polygon
mey`HoS - n - regular polygon
meyIS tIr - n - sweet corn
meyrI` - n - square [geometrical shape]; diamond (club suit)
me` - n - aunt [mother's sister]
me`cheD - n - cross (+), ex (x)
me`HIyqo - n - Mexico
me`nal - n - aunt [mother's brother's wife]
mIch - n - sector; zone
mID - n - colony
mIgh - v - be evil
mIHneS - n - closest Klingon animal to a grasshopper, locust, or cricket
mIjDang - n - fin, flipper
mIl - v - be formerly honored but now disgraced
mIllogh - n - picture [drawing; photo; cartoon; computer icons; etc]
mIllogh meyrI` - n - single-panel cartoon
mIllogh mIr - n - comic strip [Maltz said mIllogh mIr was good for comic strip (or comic). Interestingly, despite its literal meaning, it's used whether there are a number of panels (as in a comic book or most newspaper comics) or just a single panel (like most political cartoons). To specify a single-panel cartoon, one usually says mIllogh meyrI'. This is used whether the shape of the panel is actually a square or not.]
mIllogh ngutlh - n - hieroglyph
mIllogh qol - n - animation, cartoon [This refers to animation only, not cartoons in the newspaper]
mIllogh qonwI` - n - camera
mIllogh qonwI` qoSta` - n - film
mIl`oD - n - type of animal; sabre bear
mIl`oD ngeb - n - teddy bear
mIm - v - delay
mIn - n - eye mInDu` yIv blink (slang)
mIn `onroS - n - tear, teardrop
mIn QanwI` nguv - n - sunglasses
mIn tojwI` - n - optical illusion
mIn yuq - v - perform magic [referring to a stage magician]
mIn yuqwI` - n - magician
mInyoD - n - eyelid
mIp - n - wealth; richness
mIp - v - be rich [only used for wealthy people, not for rich soil, etc.]
mIqta` - n - machinery
mIQ - n - forehead [regional]
mIQ - v - fry; deep-fry
mIr - n - chain; streak
mIrSam - n - (smoking) pipe
mIS - n - confusion
mIS - v - be confused; be mixed up
mISjennegh - n - marble (material)
mISmoH - v - confuse
mIt - v - be appropriate, be suitable, be proper for the situation, circumstances; be right (Did you turn on the ~ switch?)
mItbe` - v - be wrong (I turned on the ~ switch)
mItlh - v - forge (metal)
mItlhon - n - smaller sail
mIv - n - helmet; hat; shells (pasta)
mIv - n - metal flat-bottomed pot [regional]
mIv bargh - n - metal flat-bottomed pot [regional]
mIvwa` - n - scar (result of a wound, regardless of how the wound occurred; includes scars resulting from surgery)
mIvwa`mey - n - tally, (total) score, census, headcount
mIv`a` - n - crown
mIw - n - step; stage [in a procedure or process]; recipe, formula (procedure, process) [This is generally used for this, but step-by-step instructions can also be referred to as HIl'aD. The word for "ingredient" is qurme', so if a "formula" is the list of the ingredients of something (like a secret formula for the special sauce on a Big Mac), that's qurme'mey.]
mIwba` - n - trial [the process of what happens at court]
mIy - v - brag
mIyama - n - Burma/Myanmar
mI` - n - number
mI` - v - dance; run in place; do calisthenics; exercise
mI`rab - n - spiral
mI`wI` - n - dancer
mI`wI` much - n - dance show [It can be used to translate cabaret if the cabaret show consists entirely or nearly entirely of dancing, but that's a special and infrequent situation.]
mI` mob - n - odd number [not evenly divisible by 2]
mI` mobHa - n - even number [evenly divisible by 2]
mI` nagh - n - die; dice [for playing games]
mI` poj - n - statistics [number analysis]
mI` tej - n - mathematician
mob - v - be alone
moch - n - superior
moD - v - hurry
mogh - v - be frustrated
moH - v - be ugly
moH - v - influence; exert undue influence on [slang]
moHaq - n - prefix
moHbey - n - trapezium
moj - v - become
mojaq - n - suffix
mojaQ - n - suffix
mol - n - grave
mol - v - bury
molDo`va - n - Moldova
molHa` - v - dig up [like a bone or a fossil]
mon - n - capital [of a place]
mon - v - smile; grin; sneer
monQIv - n - algae
mong - n - neck
mong Ha`quj - n - tie
mongDech - n - collar
mongghol 'uluS - n - Mongolia
mop - n - robe
moq - v - beat [something with an implement]
moqtay` - n - bruise [a bruise you can see, but not an open wound]
moQ - n - sphere
moQ - n - spiked pommel of a ~d'k tahg~ knife
moQbara` - n - martial arts form; ~Mok'bara~
moQbID - n - dome
moqlam - n - feldspar
mor - v - be agile, be dexterous [depending on context, could also be Soy'Ha']
morgh - v - protest
morgh - n - unit of area (27 square `ujmey)
morIS - n - Mauritius
morwI` - n - closest Klingon equivalent to an ant, based on what the bug looks like. [The Klingon version is noted for its dexterity or agility (hence the name), not strength. But Klingons use this for the Terran ant anyway.]
morwI` ghew - n - closest Klingon equivalent to an ant
moS - v - compromise
moSambIyqI - n - Mozambique
mot - v - be stunned, be knocked out [in the sense of "rendered unconscious or into a dazed state as a result of being hit (by a fist or a projectile, etc.)"]
motlh - adv - usually; typically; as expected; expectedly
motlh - v - be usual; be normal; be standard
motlhbe` - v - be unusual
mov - n - top of foot
moy`bI` - n - slingshot
mo` - n - cage
mo` - n - motive; motivation; grounds; reason; rationale [slang]
mo`rISqa` - n - Morska
mub - v - be legal
much - n - presentation
much - v - perform [music]
much - v - present
muchpa` - n - auditorium, theater
muchwI` - n - musician
much jech - n - costume (for a play)
much Qe` - n - cabaret (location) [such as a nightclub or restaurant where there's food/drink along with a show]
much yaH - n - stage (for performances)
muD - n - atmosphere
muD - n - weather [in general]
muD Dotlh - n - weather [at any given moment]
muD Duj - n - airplane
muD Hurgh Duj - n - blimp
muD `umber - n - climate [as in "the Klingon homeworld has a very hot climate"]
mugh - v - translate
mughato` - n - mugato
mughbogh permey - n - subtitles [only if translation is implied. Not to be used for closed captions]
mughwI` - n - translator
muH - v - execute; put to death
muj - v - be wrong; be in the wrong
mul - v - be stubborn
mum - v - taste; sense flavors; fancy, have a crush
mun - v - intervene
mun`a` - n - unit of area [A mun'a' is 729 morghmey]
mung - n - origin
mup - v - impact; strike
mupwI` - n - hammer
mupwI`Hom - n - mallet [for striking a musical instrument]
muq - v - have a volume of
mur - v - wince, cringe, flinch
murItanya` - n - Mauritania
muS - v - hate; detest
muSghoraw - n - valve
muSHa` - v - love
mut - n - species
mut - v - be selfish
mutchoH - n - evolution (Darwinian), less technical term
mutwa` - n - protozoan
mutlh - v - manufacture; construct; assemble; put together
mutlhwI` - n - construction worker
muv - v - join
muvmoH - v - recruit
muvtay - n - initiation
muylIS - n - eyelash
mu` - n - word
mu`ghom - n - dictionary
mu`qaD - n - curse
mu`qaD veS - n - curse warfare
mu`mey Doy` - n - tired words [used to refer to older Klingons language]
mu`mey ghoQ - n - slang; "fresh words" [mostly used by younger Klingons]
mu`mey ru` - n - temporary words [ungrammatical expression used for impact]
mu`neqo - n - Monaco
mu`tay` - n - vocabulary
mu`tlhegh - n - sentence
mu`tlhegh meS - n - paragraph
mu`vIb - n - whistle (with shrill sound -- a whistle (hand-held device) with a shrill sound used, for example, to give warnings and the like is a mu'vIb. It's not a musical instrument (except in the most avant-garde of compositions).)

n

nab - n - plan; procedure
nab - v - plan
nach - n - head
nach Ha`quj - n - scarf (as in headscarf) [slang]
naD - n - commendation
naD - v - praise; commend; approve
naD tetlh - n - Commendation List
naDev - n - here; hereabouts
naDHa` - v - discommend; disapprove
naDHa`ghach - n - discommendation
naDqa`ghach - n - re-commendation
nagh - n - ceramic material
nagh - n - rock; stone
nagh beQ - n - stone panel [artwork; similar to a painting]
nagh DIr - n - shell [of an animal]
nagh HeH - n - curb [of a road or street]
naghboch - n - gemstone
naghHom(mey) - n - gravel (for the stuff spread on the ground or used in making concrete, for example, yetmoS is more common)
naH - n - fruit; vegetable
naH - v - be hostile, malicious, unfriendly, antagonistic
naH taj - n - vegetable knife; fruit knife [small knife]
naHjej - n - thistle
naHlet - n - nut; nuts
naHnagh - n - pit [of fruit]
naj - v - dream; dream of/about
najmoHwI` - n - lullaby
nalqaD - n - mate challenge
nam - v - move counterclockwise
namchIl - n - chlorophyll
namIbya` - n - Namibia
namtun - n - beginning [of song]
namwech - n - paw
namyaS - n - hood (of a cloak, robe, sweatshirt, or whatever)
nan - n - type of martial arts kick
nan - v - gouge
nan - v - use the fourth toe [archaic]
nanwI` - n - chisel
nanwI` - n - fourth toe
nap - v - be simple
naptop - n - eclipse
naq - v - be iridescent
naQ - n - cain; staff
naQ - n - ponytail [slang]
naQ - v - be full; be whole; be entire; be complete
naQHa` - v - be ncomplete
naQHom - n - stick [used to strike percussion instrument]
naQjej - n - spear
naQjejHom - n - arrow [not really a Klingon gizmo]
naQ `er - n - brush devil (a Klingon animal)
nar - v - reflect (have something be bounced off a surface without absorption)
nargh - v - appear
nargh - v - escape
naS - v - be vicious
naSIn - n - vertical post of railing
natlIS - n - last entry in list; end of list
natlh - v - be reprehensible; be disgusting; be contemptible [slang]
natlh - v - use up; consume; expend
natlh - n - drain
nav - n - paper
nav HablI` - n - fax machine
nav qatwI` - n - envelope
nav QIn - n - letter (message written on paper)
nav vaH - n - envelope (paper cover)
navSu` - n - key, legend (as on a map)
nawlogh - n - squadron
naw` - n - access
naw` - v - access
naw`wat - n - remote, small, desolate place
nay - n - Klingon ~n~ sound
nay - v - marry [wife does this]
nayeghra - n - Niagara
nayjerya` - n - Nigeria
nay` - n - course; dish [at a meal]
nay` Qav - n - dessert
na` - v - be salty; be brackish
na` - v - be sure; be definite; be positive; be certain [slang]
na`choS - n - nachos
na`ran - n - type of fruit na`ran rur to be sweet
na`ran chang - n - marmalade
na`ran HuH - n - marmalade
na`ran wIblaw` - n - lime
na`vIy Hol - n - Na'vi
neb - n - beak; bill; nozzle (like on the end of a hose)
neb mIv - n - baseball cap
neb mIv let - n - baseball cap (worn by some while batting)
neb mIv tun - n - baseball cap
nebeylI` - n - sarcophagus (fancy)
nech - v - be lateral; move laterally
negh - n - soldiers
neH - adv - only; merely; just; alone
neH - v - want; desire
neHHa` - adv - not only
neHjej - n - thistle
neHmaH - n - neutral zone
nej - v - look for; seek; search for
nejwI` - n - probe
nel - v - match, pair up, map onto [like when fingerprints match]
nelchu` - v - fit in perfectly, fit perfectly [like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle; based on the verb nel match, pair up, map onto]
nelmeS - n - hyperlink
nelwI` - n - partner, mate (e.g. matching socks or gloves)
nem - n - years from now
nen - n - growth; maturation; maturity
nen - v - be mature; be grown-up; be adult
nenchoH - v - mature; grow up
nentay - n - Rite of Ascension
nentay cha`DIch - n - Second Rite of Ascension
nentay wa`DIch - n - First Rite of Ascension
nenghep - n - Age of Ascension
neng`el - n - metal grid, lattice
nep - v - lie; fib
nepwI` - n - liar
neq - v - intersect
neqjung - n - contact, encounter, rendezvous [The noun counterpart to ghom. It would be used in phrases such as neqjung wa`DIch first contact.]
neqratlh - n - glasses, spectacles
neS - v - be crunchy, be crispy
neSlo` - n - mirror [smaller]
neSngech - n - dormouse-like animal
net - pro - that [previous topic]
netlh - num - ten thousand [number-forming element]
nevDagh - n - type of pot with handles [used for food preparation]
nevroD - n - tentacle
nev`aQ - n - sarcophagus (simple)
nev`ob - n - thigh, upper arm
neyo Hol - n - Neo
ne` - n - yeoman
ne`Derlan - n - The Netherlands
nIb - v - be identical
nIbpoH - n - déjà vu
nIch - n - ammunition
nID - v - attempt; try
nIH - n - right [side]
nIH - v - steal
nIHwI` - n - thief
nIj - v - leak nIj pa` beb The ceiling is leaking.
nIl - v - be grassy
nIl`atrogh - n - charcoal
nIm - n - milk
nIm qulcher taD - n - ice xxxxx
nIm wIb ngogh - n - cheese
nIm tlhagh - n - butter
nImbuS wej - n - Nimbus III
nIn - n - fuel
nIpon - n - Japan
nIq - v - weave, knit
nIqDob - n - perforator, hole punch
nIqHom - n - software
nIQ - n - breakfast
nIS - v - hinder; disrupt; interfere [with]; cast/throw/make (a shadow) (QIb "shadow" would be the subject. The object, if specified, would be the surface onto which the shadow is cast.)
nISwI` - n - disruptor
nISwI` beH - n - disruptor rifle
nISwI` bej - n - disruptor rifle
nISwI` DaH - n - disruptor banks
nISwI` HIch - n - disruptor pistol; hand-held disruptor
nISwI` tIH - n - disruptor beam
nIt - v - be plain; be pure; be uncorrupted; be unsullied
nIteb - adv - alone; acting alone
nItebHa` - adv - together
nItlh - n - finger
nItlh gheb - n - trumpet
nItlh naQ - n - pigment stick [slang]
nItlh `echlet - n - keyboard (on computer/typewriter or the musical instrument)
nItlhpach - n - fingernail
nItlhpach - n - flat end of pigment stick
nIv - v - be superior; be great
nIve`Da` - n - Nevada
nIvqu` - v - be best
nIvnav - n - pajamdras
nIwqen - n - gill
nIyjer - n - Niger
nIyma` - n - phantom; apparition
nI` - v - be long; be lengthy [duration]
nob - n - gift
nob - v - give
nobHa` - v - give back; return
nobmeD - n - skeleton
noch - n - sensor
noD - v - retaliate; revenge; take vengeance; do something out of defiance
noDwI` - n - avenger
nogh - v - writhe
noghmanDIy - n - Normandy
noH - n - war [an individual war]
noH - v - judge; estimate
noHva`Dut - n - No'hvadut [ett geografisk region]
noj - v - lend
nol - n - funeral
nom - adv - fast; quickly
nompuq - n - authority, evidence, attestation, reference, citation ["source" in the literary sense]
non - v - be rotten
nong - v - be passionate
nop - v - omit
noq - n - nipple
noregh - n - Norway
norgh - n - type of animal; ~norg~ [sharklike sea creature]
norten`erlen - n - Northern Ireland
nortlham - n - descendant [pluralized with -pu`]
noS - v - eat in small mouthfuls; nibble
noSvagh - n - deodorant
not - adv - never
not vay` ngaghpu`bogh be` - n - virgin
notqa` - n - type of bird [large; black]
notron - n - curtain, drape [can also be used for things like a door or gate that opens and closes vertically, like a portcullis]
notlh - v - be obsolete notlh tonSaw`lIj. Your argument is invalid.
nov - n - alien; foreigner; outsider
nov - v - be foreign; be alien
noy - v - be famous; be well known
no` - n - ancestors
no` bov - n - historical times (long ago, but not prehistoric)
no` DIr - n - ancestor hanging [wall ornament]
no` Hol - n - ancient language
no`laS pa` - n - sitting room, lounge, parlor
no`negh - n - sulfur
no`QeD - n - genealogy
no`tej - n - genealogist
no``och - n - forehead [regional]
nub - v - be suspect
nubwI` - n - predecessor
nuch - n - coward
nuch Hergh - n - aspirin
nuD - v - examine
nugh - n - society [group of people with shared culture]
nughI` - v - twist knuckle into someone's head
nuH - n - possibility; option
nuH - n - weapon
nuH bey` - n - Pride of Weapons
nuHHom - n - small arms
nuHmey - n - arsenal
nuHpIn - n - weapons officer
nuj - n - mouth nuj yaj read lips [Used in a general way, one might say nujDu` vIyajlaH. When applied to a specific occurrence, one might say nujlIj vIyajlaH.]
nuj `In - n - beatboxing nuj `In chu` to beatbox
num - v - promote
nung - v - precede
nungmaH - n - hybrid
nup - v - decrease
nuq - q - what?
nuqDaq - q - where?
nuqjatlh - excl - what did you say?; huh?; what?
nuqneH - excl - what do you want? [greeting]
nuQ - v - annoy; bother
nur - n - dignity
nural - n - Neural
nuralngan - n - Neuralese
nuS - v - ridicule
nuv - n - person [humanoid]
nuyorgh - n - New York
nu` - v - be particularly small, be miniature
nu`Qan - n - alcove
nu`SIylan - n - New Zealand

ng

ngab - v - disappear; vanish
ngach - v - debate
ngaD - v - be stable; be balanced
ngaDmoH - v - stabilize
ngaDmoHwI` - n - stabilizer [component of a ship]
ngagh - v - mate with, sleep with
ngaH - v - squeeze (an object)
ngaj - v - be short [in duration]
ngajrun - n - puzzle, riddle [this is a made-up puzzle or riddle]
ngal - v - be chewy
ngam - v - adhere, stick [with -moH, the object is the thing that's stuck to or adhering to something else, marked by -Daq]
ngam`eQ - n - gluten
ngan - n - inhabitant
ngang - v - vary, be varying [This verb is used to express that something is varying or deviating from the norm or is varying or fluctuating so much that there isn’t a norm. (If the readouts on certain instruments on a ship did this, that would probably be bad news.)]
ngang - v - straddle
ngap - v - be consonant (in the sense of musical consonance or sympathetic vibrations)
ngapHa` - v - be discordant, dissonant
ngaq - n - support [military term]
ngaQ - v - be locked; be sealed; be secured; be fastened
ngaQHa`moH - v - sign in, log in
ngaQHa`moHwI` - n - key
ngaQmoH - v - sign out, log out
ngar - v - be miraculous, supernatural, wondrous
ngaS - v - contain [have inside]
ngat - n - gunpowder
ngat - n - herbed granulated cartilage [for food preparation]
ngat `atlhqam - n - a type of mold ["gunpowder fungus"]
ngav - n - writer's cramp
ngavyaw` - n - canine-like creature (larger than a qovIj) [a large animal, like the creatures that accompany the guards on Rura Penthe]
ngaw - v - erode (what water, wind, and so on do)
ngawDeq - n - mixing stick with flattened; paddlelike end
ngay - n - Klingon ~ng~ sound
ngayvo`wan - n - work pants (a kind of Klingon work pants)
ngay` - n - glory
nga`chuq - v - have sex; perform sex
ngeb - v - be counterfeit; be false; be fake
ngech - n - valley
ngech - n - woman's cleavage
ngeD - v - be easy
ngeng - n - lake
ngeH - v - send
ngeHbej - n - cosmos
ngeHmeH QIn nav - n - postcard
ngej - v - infect
ngel - v - attract, lure
ngelwI` - n - bait
ngem - n - forest; woods
ngen - v - be numb [of body parts; for emotions, use jemHa` or jemlaHbe`]
ngengroQ - n - a mythical huge creature, ten times as large as Kortar; extinct now, amphibious animal and may be up to one kellicam large
ngep - v - override
ngep`oS - n - stairs; stairway [except at ship door] [regional]
ngeq - v - hoard; store (put something someone to store it); cache; save, store (on a computer) ghuQ ngeqpu` qawwIj I've memorized the poem; I know the poem by heart
ngeQ - v - bump into; run into; collide with
nger - n - theory [in the scientific sense]
ngeS - v - bake (this pie ~ed well)
ngeSmoH - v - bake (Julie ~ed a pie)
ngeSmoHwI` - n - baker
ngeSlIch - n - loan
ngeSlIch `ap - n - interest [in one's bank account]
ngetlh - v - diffract
ngev - v - sell
ngevwI` - n - seller
nge` - v - take away
ngIb - n - ankle [also slang term of deprecation]
ngIbvay - n - weird animal found on Qo'noS that looks like a rock (like an oyster)
ngIDvoS - n - lead (element)
ngIj - v - be rowdy; be unruly
ngIl - v - dare
ngIm - v - be putrid
ngIn - v - be turbulent
ngIng - v - have a negative charge, be negatively charged
ngIp - v - borrow
ngIq - n - each; singular one; individual one
ngIr - v - knead, massage
ngIS - n - lubricant (for disruptor cannons)
ngItHel - n - type of musical instrument [can be played with a bow -- like a violin]
ngItHel naQ - n - bow [used to play a ngItHel]
ngItlh - v - be stuck [like when your car is stuck in the snow or Santa is stuck in the chimney or a ring is stuck on your finger or a nail is stuck in a piece of wood and you can't pull it out]
ngIv - v - patrol
ngI` - v - have a weight of; weigh; be pressurized
ngob`at - n - breast [female anatomy]
ngoch - n - policy
ngochjuH - n - quark (particle)
ngoD - n - fact
ngogh - n - block; lump; brick
ngogh mutlhwI` - n - bricklayer
ngogh tun - n - pillow
ngoH - v - smear; paint using fingers
ngoj - v - be restless
ngol - v - move ~bat'leth~ from horizontal to vertical orientation
ngolpel - n - sit-up
ngom - v - be geeky [This describes someone who is "into" a subject and knows a lot about it, but does not necessarily participate in associated activities the way a qatru` does. It could be a less intense version of ven.]
ngomwI` - n - geek
ngon - v - bubble [The verb ngon describes what water does when it's boiling: It's bubbling. Also, if you blow with a straw into a glass of water, then it's also bubble-ing, i.e. making bubbles. The person does not ngon, they ngonmoH the water. ]
ngonDer - n - nostalgia (often the object of SIQ)
ngong - n - experiment
ngong - v - experiment
ngop - n - plates [for eating]
ngoq - n - code
ngoqDe` - n - encoded message
ngoQ - n - goal; purpose
ngor - v - cheat
ngoS - v - dissolve
ngotrI` - n - latitude X ngotrI`. (It is at) latitude X.
ngotrI`tal - n - parallel
ngottal - n - [traditional term for coordinates]
ngotvI` - n - [traditional term for coordinates]
ngotlh - v - be fanatical
ngov - v - slither, wriggle, squirm, writhe (like a snake)
ngoy` - v - be responsible
ngo` - v - be old [not new]
ngub - v - migrate, immigrate, emigrate (In Klingon, there's only one word for these concepts: ngub. To specify immigration or emigration, make use of the suffixes -Daq and -vo' on the nouns referring to the destination or area of departure.)
nguD - v - be glued to
nguDwI` - n - glue
ngugh - adv - then; at that time
nguH - v - testify
nguHwI` - n - witness [one who testifies in court]
ngujlep - n - mouthpiece [of a wind instrument]
ngun - v - perch
ngup - n - authority; power; one in authority or in charge [slang]
ngup - n - cape [clothing]
ngup`a` - n - Dominion
nguq - v - be arrogant; be haughty; be conceited
ngur - v - be autistic/Aspie
nguSDI` - n - motor
ngutlh - n - letter, written character
ngutlh nagh - n - die/dice with letters
ngutlh tu`qom - n - font, typeface
nguv - v - be dyed; be stained; be tinted chay` nguv? What color is it?
nguvmoH - v - dye; stain; tint
nguy - v - scoff (does not take an object; used with -Daq)
ngu` - v - identify
ngu`lIj - n - soot, grime

o

p

pab - n - grammar
pab - v - follow [rules]
pab buv - n - part of speech
pabHa` - v - misfollow [rules]; follow [rules] wrongly
pach - n - claw; talon
pach moQ - n - gavel
pagh - conj - or; either/or
pagh - n - nothing; none; no one
pagh - num - zero
pagh ngaghpu`bogh be` - n - virgin
paghDIch - num - zeroth [about something that has not occurred]
paghlogh - adv - zero times; never [emphatic]
paghur - n - hermit, recluse
paH - n - gown; dress
paH bID - n - skirt
paj - v - resign
pal`ar - n - family member, kinsperson
pan - v - spark; emit sparks
pan - v - solve
panama` - n - Panama
pang - v - pluck [a stringed instrument]
panDa` - n - panda bear
papwanughI`nIy - n - Papua New Guinea
paq - n - book
paq Duj - n - bookmobile
paq nojwI` - n - librarian
paq nojwI` qach - n - library (building)
paq nojwI` tum - n - library (public)
paq `ay`mey - n - contents
paqIStan - n - Pakistan
paQ - v - meditate, cogitate, reflect
paQDI`norgh - n - teachings
par - v - dislike
parbIng - n - type of bird [mid-sized; with particularly garish coloring]
parchech - n - gypsum
pargh - n - be synthetic, artificial
parHa` - v - like
parIy - n - Paris
parmaq - n - love; romance
parmaq qep - n - date (romantic meeting, not a calendar date)
parmaqqay - n - romantic companion; romantic partner
paS - v - be late
paSjav - n - cinnamon-like Klingon plant [A paSjav is a Klingon tree whose bark is cut into strips and eaten along with certain foods or else is ground up (like ngat) and added to some other kinds of foods. (It's occasionally just ripped off of the tree and eaten then and there.) Non-Klingons who eat too much paSjav tend to start coughing. Klingons think this is pretty funny and never seem to tire of it.]
paSlogh - n - socks
paSlogh tuQ DaS - v - be inside-out
paSrIq - n - fabric used in carpets and rugs [not for clothing]
paSta` - n - pasta, noodles
pat - n - system
patat `oQqar - n - potato
patmor - n - emerald
patlh - n - level; layer; standing; rank [military; governmental]
patlh - v - be ranked, have a status, be graded
patlhmoH - v - rank, assign status, compare, sort ["When used with the 'compare' meaning, of course, the object of the verb is always plural. The implication that two (or more) things are ranked or sorted, they're ranked in comparison to one another"]
pav - v - be urgent
paw - v - arrive
paw` - v - butt heads [slang]
paw` - v - collide
paw`aD - n - vein
pay - n - Klingon ~p~ sound
pay - v - regret
pay` - adv - suddenly
pay`an - n - particle
pay`rIn - n - excavation, dug-up ruins
pa` - n - enclosed area [slang]
pa` - n - room; chamber
pa` - n - there; over there; thereabouts
pa`jaH - n - rhyme
pa`logh - n - the past (as a whole)
pa`raghway - n - Paraguay
pa`vo - n - Pahvo (planet)
pa` beb - n - ceiling [of a room on the top story of a structure]
pa` beb De`lor - n - stalactite
pa` reD - n - interior face of exterior wall
peb`ot - n - type of fruit
peD - v - snow, fall slowly (like snow) [When you cut your bread and the crumbs fall out (like snow), you use the verb peD. It can also be used for instance, when you throw confetti, and the confetti falls down, then use peD. So, with other words, peD still means to snow, but it does not only refer to snow, but can also be used for other small things falling down slowly or rain down, like ashes.]
pegh - n - secret
pegh - v - be secret
pegh - v - keep something secret
peghmey vIttlhegh - n - secrecy proverb
peHghep - n - Age of Inclusion
pej - v - demolish
pel`aQ - n - eggshell; coffin
pem - n - daytime
pemjep - n - midday
penSIlvenya` - n - Pennsylvania
peng - n - torpedo; missile
pep - v - raise
pep`en - n - current [in air or water]
peq - v - slaughter (connotes intention, targeting specific victims)
peQ - n - magnetism
peQ chem - n - magnetic field
peQnagh - n - magnet
per - n - label
per - v - label; ascertain; specify
per naH - n - pear
per yuD - n - code name
perletlh - n - stump (this applies to trees, etc., not to body parts)
peS - v - supply, furnish, provide, dispense [in the sense of "hand out, give out, distribute"] X qotmeH Y peS invest Y in X
pet - v - be welded (together)
petaQ - excl - [epithet]
petben - n - thump, thud petben tlhen make a thump/thud, go thump/thud
petqaD - n - bone-mender (medical device)
pey - n - acid
pe` - v - cut
pe`bIl - n - lightning
pe`meH `echlet - n - cutting board
pe`meH taj - n - cutting knife
pe`ru` - n - Peru
pe`vIl - adv - forcefully; by force
pe`vIlHa` - adv - gently
pe``egh - v - keep score
pIch - n - fault; blame
pIch - v - blame
pIchSIv - n - vinegar
pID - v - coat [food] with herbed mixture
pID - v - slang for laS (ink up, put paint on a brush)
pIgh - n - ruins
pIH - v - be suspicious
pIH - v - expect
pIj - adv - often; frequently
pIjHa` - adv - seldom; infrequently
pIl - v - be stimulated; be inspired; be motivated
pIlam naH - n - plum
pIlghIm - n - mast, flagpole
pIlHa` - v - be unmotivated
pIlHa`wI` - n - apathetic person
pIlIpIynaS - n - the Philippines
pIlmoH - v - stimulate; inspire; motivate
pIm - v - be different
pIn - n - boss; expert, authority [slang]; the person in charge of anything
pIn tlhoy` - n - territorial wall [e.g. Berlin Wall]
pInHom - n - apron (clothing) (slang)
pIn`a` - n - master
pIp - n - spine
pIpyuS - n - pipius [whose claws are used as food, requiring breaking]
pIq - n - time period from now (future)
pIqaD - n - Klingon writing system
pIqcho` - n - athlete
pIqcho` qaD - n - athletic competition, sport
pIqcho` Quj - n - athletic competition, sport
pIQ - v - be direct
pIQHa` - v - be indirect; be roundabout; be devious
pIr - v - be fertile (refers to both land and creatures)
pIraqSIS - n - Praxis [Klingon moon]
pIra`Ha - n - Prague
pIrmuS - n - bottom [underside of something; not interior bottom]
pItSa` chab - n - pizza
pItlh - excl - done; all done; all finished
pItlhbergh - n - Pittsburgh
pIv - v - be healthy
pIvchem - n - warp field
pIvghor - n - warp drive
pIvlob - n - warp factor
pIvyoch - n - pffiots (pungent Klingon beverage)
pIw - n - odor
pIw rebmugh - n - incense [used regardless of the material the incense is made of]
pI` - v - be fat [no implication of obesity]; be bold [typeface]
po - n - morning
po - n - Tibet
pob - n - hair [on body]; animal's hair or fur
pob yIvbeH - n - sweater
poch - v - plant
poD - v - be clipped
poDmoH - v - clip
pogh - n - glove
poH - n - period of time
poH - v - time
poj - n - analysis
poj - v - analyze
pol - v - keep; save; store (keep something somewhere); save, store (on a computer)
polHa` - v - discard
pom - n - dysentery
pomtut - n - battering ram
pon - v - persuade; convince
pong - n - name
pong - v - name; call
pop - n - reward; prize; honor; token of esteem [for an achievement]
popSop - n - sodium
poq - n - indigestion
poQ - v - demand; require
por - n - leaf [of a plant]; heart (card suit)
por Ho'Du` - n - rake (for leaves)
por pur - v - to smoke [a leaf]
porgh - n - body
porgh Dotlh - n - health
porgh mIw - n - bodily function
porghQeD - n - biology; anatomy [scientific study of bodily functions]
porghtej - n - biologist; anatomist
portughal - n - Portugal
poS - n - left [side]
poS - v - be open; be opened
poSmoH - v - open
potlh - n - consequential thing; something important; important thing
potlh - v - be important
pov - n - afternoon
pov - v - be excellent
povjaj - n - Tuesday
poymar - n - mystery [a real "mystery", something that confounds people]
poy` - v - confiscate
po` - v - be expert; be skilled
po`lIgh - n - sauce [any type of sauce]
po`lISqa` - n - Poland
po`lo - n - polo (sport)
po`lo yIvbeH - n - polo shirt
po`oH - n - corner [of the street, of a piece of paper]
po`wI` - n - expert
pub - v - boil
puboS - n - scapula
puch - n - toilet
puchpa` - n - washroom; toilet; bathroom
pugh - n - dregs
puH - n - land
puHley` - n - cape, point [This is a geographical term.]
puH beQ - n - plains, flatlands
puH Duj - n - car
puH nIl - n - grassland, steppe
puH taD - n - tundra
puH yIQ - n - swamp, wetlands
puj - v - be weak
pujmoH - v - weaken
pujwI` - n - weakling; weak one
pul - v - be ground up
pum - n - accusation
pum - v - accuse
pum - v - fall
pummoH - v - knock down
pumnuj - n - handcuffs, manacles
pumnuj reD`eS - n - inefficient bureaucracy
pun - v - be low; be deep (in pitch) [as in deep voice]
pung - n - mercy
pup - v - be perfect; be exact; be high-resolution
pupHa` - v - be approximate; If it's necessary to hedge one's bets adverbially, chaq "perhaps" and ghaytan "likely" are acceptable.
pup - v - kick
puq - n - child; offspring
puq chonnaQ - n - fork
puq Hol - n - baby talk [children's language]
puq lut - n - fairy tale
puq lut rorgh - n - fairy tale
puq poH - n - generation
puqbe` - n - daughter
puqloD - n - son
puqnI` - n - grandchild
puqnI`be` - n - granddaughter
puqnI`loD - n - grandson
puQ - v - be fed up
pur - v - inhale
puS - v - be few; be several; be a handful
puS - v - sight [with gunsight]
puv - v - fly
puy - v - wreck
puyjaq - n - nova
pu` - n - horn (of animal)
pu` - n - phaser
pu`beH - n - phaser rifle
pu`bej - n - phaser rifle
pu`beq - n - phaser crew
pu`DaH - n - phaser banks
pu`HIch - n - phaser pistol
pu`jIn - n - map; blueprint [architect's plan of a building etc.]
pu`porgh `oQqar - n - ginger
pu`veng - n - twig; also: cat's whiskers

q

qab - n - face
qab - v - be bad
qab jech - n - mask
qach - n - building; structure; house
qach choghvat - n - porch
qach DIS - n - basement
qach noy - n - landmark (building)
qaD - n - challenge; test of one's abilities; contest
qaD - v - challenge; face; resist; oppose; confront; do something out of defiance
qaD mIr - n - tournament
qaDrav - n - a place in the first city, "place of challenges"
qaDvan - n - probation
qagh - n - serpent worm [as food]; ~gagh~
qagh - v - interrupt
qaghwI` - n - Klingon ~'~ sound
qaH - n - sir
qaj - v - soar
qajunpaQ - n - courage; audacity
qal - v - be corrupt
qalIvornIya - n - California
qalmoH - v - corrupt
qalmuS - n - color (the state of being in color, as opposed to black-and-white)
qal`aq - n - frame, framework, supporting structure, skeleton
qam - n - foot
qam Do Duj - n - bicycle
qama` - n - prisoner
qamerun - n - Cameroon
qampuchIya` - n - Cambodia
qan - v - be old [not young]
qan - v - use the pinky [little finger]
qanQIy loS - n - Cancri IV (planet)
qanraD - n - type of bird [noted for its song]
qanwI` - n - pinky; little finger
qang - v - always [or routinely] cooperate or agree with [slang]
qang - v - pour [from one container into another]
qangtlhIn - n - beliefs, principles, standards, ethics, ideology
qap - v - insist
qappam - n - foundation [supporting under-structure of building]
qaq - v - be preferable; be better
qaq naH - n - closest Klingon equivalent to a watermelon
qar - v - be accurate; be right, be correct (of a phrase, fact)
qarDaS - n - Cardassia
qarDaSngan - n - Cardassian [person]
qarDaSQa` - n - Cardassian Union
qargh - v - be thick, bulky [usually for inanimate objects]
qarpal - n - trapezoid
qaryoq - n - type of bird [capable of mimicking speech]
qaryoq`a` - n - type of bird [large; capable of mimicking speech]
qaS - v - occur; happen
qaSaQtan - n - Kazakhstan
qat - v - accompany [singing] with instrumental music
qat - v - wrap; encase
qatalunya` - n - Catalonia
qatra` - n - Katra (vulcan soul)
qatru` - n - nerd
qatlh - q - why?
qatlhDa` - n - water pipe
qatvoH - n - shellfish, bivalve (clam, oyster, mussel, scallop, brachiopod) [There are a number of these sorts of creatures. qatvoH applies to various bivalves. Large qatvoHmey are served in non-Klingon restaurants that feature Klingon food, but they usually just call this dish "Jumbo Klingon Mollusks."]
qav`ap - n - value; amount [of money]; rent; cost, price
qav`ap juH - n - apartment [This is for a house or an apartment of any size that is not owned by the occupant. For a dwelling within a larger building containing several such dwellings (regardless of ownership), it's common to just say pa`mey (or occasionally just pa`).]
qaw - v - remember
qaw - n - memory [" . . . in the sense of the ability to remember or the power of recall"]
qawHaq - n - memory banks; data banks [singular]
qawmoH - v - remind
qaw` - v - flip over (intransitive)
qawno` - n - remembrance, memorial (gathering or ceremony to remember and honor someone who has died)
qaw`moH - v - flip over (transitive); turn (transitive, as in turning the pages of a book)
qay - n - Klingon ~q~ sound
qayrI`Hom - n - clavicle, collarbone
qaytu` - n - parent (gender-neutral term)
qay - v - use the middle finger [second finger]
qaytap - n - bill, act
qaywI` - n - middle finger; second finger
qay` - v - be a problem; be a hassle
qa` - n - spirit
qa` - v - replace; substitute for
qa`lIq Hol - n - Scottish Gaelic
qa`meH - n - replacement [permanent]
qa`meH vIttlhegh - n - replacement proverb
qa`mel - n - camel
qa`mInar - n - Kaminar
qa`nabIS - n - cannabis
qa`naDa` - n - Canada
qa`put - n - monkey-like creature [smallish and pretty monkey-like]
qa`ramel - n - caramel
qa`ramel Su`ghar Sawqe` - n - caramel
qa`rI` - n - end [of a long bounded space; e.g. corridor; conduit; road; bridge;
qa`rol - n - type of bird [really big; black]
qa`vam - n - Genesis; The Big Bang
qa`vaQ - n - hoop-and-stick maneuver; ~qa'vak~ [traditional game]
qa`vIn - n - coffee; type of beverage
qeb - v - squeeze [windbag instrument]
qebeq - n - Quebec
qebeq veng - n - Quebec City
qech - n - idea
qeD - v - vacate
qegh - n - vat; barrel [for storage of liquor]
qeH - v - resent
qej - v - be grouchy; be mean
qel - v - consider; take into account
qel - v - nod (This means lower the head slightly whether or not the head is again raised. So, among other things, it can refer to nodding to the beat of music or nodding off (falling asleep). The subject might be, for example, nach "head" (even though this might be considered redundant) or the nodder. It does not take an object; Okrand did not know if Klingons would nod to say yes. qel means "lower the head".) Qochbe' vaj qel nachDaj. S/He nods in agreement.
qelHay`ya - n - Kal'Hyah [Klingon equivalent of a bachelor party]
qelI`qam - n - ~kellicam~ [unit of length]
qelpIngan - n - Kelpien
qelpIya`ngan - n - Kelpien
qem - v - bring
qempa` - n - ancestor
qempa`QeH - n - proudest spirits of Gre'thor
qemyu`po` - n - cerebral palsy
qen - adv - recently; a short time ago
qen - v - wipe (object is surface being wiped, as in "I wipe my forehead")
qenSaS - n - Kansas
qenya` - n - Kenya
qeng - v - carry; convey
qenggharu` - n - kangaroo
qengHoD - n - treasure, booty, plunder, swag, loot [context determines the best translation. If there's a lot of stuff, the plural form qengHoDmey is often but not necessarily used. The resemblance to "Captain Kang" is coincidental, but, even so, Kang's crew was careful to never say qengHoDmey when he was around]
qep - n - meeting
qeq - n - drill [military]
qeq - v - practice; train; prepare
qeqchu` - v - train really well, to work really hard at it and achieve intended goals
qeQ - n feces, fecal matter
qeQvav - n - thingamajig, doodad
qer - v - shrink [get smaller, general]
qerHa` - v - un-shrink [grow back to original size]
qerjIq' - n - fireplace [specific place in a house for heating/food preperation]
qeS - n - advice
qeS - v - advise
qeSHoS - n - animal like a fox
qeSnoDmaj - n - closest Klingon equivalent to a jellyfish
qet - v - run; jog
qettlhup - n - type of sauce
qet`uy - n - pine cone, something that grows on certain kinds of trees and looks much like a pine cone as seen on Earth
qetlh - v - be dull; be uninteresting
qev - n - crowd
qev - v - crowd
qevaS - n - kevas
qevpob - n - jowl; cheek
qew - v - use the ring finger [third finger]
qewwI` - n - ring finger; third finger
qey - v - be in vain, futile
qeylIS betleH - n - Sword of Kahless
qeylIS mInDu` - n - Eyes of Kahless [a guessing game]
qey`Hav - n - vagina
qe`rot `oQqar - n - carrot
qIb - n - galaxy
qIbHeS - n - galactic rim
qIch - v - condemn
qID - n - joke
qID - v - joke; make a joke; tell a joke
qIgh - n - shortcut
qIH - v - meet [for the first time]
qIj - v - be black
qIj `ej wov - v - be gray
qIl - v - cancel; abort
qIm - v - pay attention; concentrate
qImHa` - v - disregard
qImroq - n - season
qIn - v - moan, groan
qInlat - n - Quin'lat, the city where the story of Kahless happens, where a man stands outside to wait for the storm to come and then dies
qInut - n - scythe, sickle, falx (This is a tool resembling a sickle. It's for agriculture, but, of course, it could be used as a weapon. If it has a long handle, "scythe" may be a better translation, though it's not quite either of them.)
qIp - v - hit [with hand; fist; implement]; knock [with hand, fist...]
qIproS - n - Cyprus
qIQ - v - mutiny
qIrbI` - n - hygiene
qIrIbaS - n - Kiribati
qIrqoD - n - a hardy, long-lived tree with twisted branches and needle-like leaves, like a pine
qIr`a` - n - continuum
qIS - n - be libidinous
qIt - v - be possible
qIt - n - a big, fat bird native to Kronos, which is able to fly, but not for a long time (like a guinea fowl)
qItbe` - n - female qIt
qItI`nga` - n - ~K'Tinga~ class [vessel]
qItloD - n - male qIt
qItoy - n - prostitute [slang]
qIv - n - knee
qIvon - n - body part [not further identified]
qIvon belmoH - excl - I need to go to the bathroom
qIvo`rIt - n - ~K'Vort~ class [vessel]
qI` - v - sign [a treaty]; register, sign up for (an account) ["register for an account" is mab qI']
qoch - n - partner
qoch - v - squeeze into (a space) [The object is the space into which the subject is squeezing itself.]
qoch`uq - n - rubber [The gummy material]
qoD - n - inside; interior
qogh - n - belt
qogh - n - ear [external; cartilaginous flap]
qoH - n - fool
qoj - conj - or; and/or
qoj - n - cliff
qol - v - pronounce [refers to articulation]
qol - n - connection of segments that are joined together; collocation Ho` qol set of teeth
qolqoS - n - core; essence; essential part of something
qol`om - n - gold
qomorIy - n - Comoros
qompogh - n - type of food
qon - v - compose
qon - v - record [any kind of recording or writing]
qonwI` - n - songwriter; composer
qonggho - n - Congo
qongmeS - n - sibling
qop - v - arrest
qoq - n - robot
qoq De`wI` Dojmey - n - botnet (computer jargon)
qor - v - scavenge
qorDu` - n - family
qorgh - v - stop up; fill a hole
qorghwI` - n - cork; pacifier
qoro`na javtIm - n - coronavirus
qorvIt - n - Korvit, type of animal which farmers try to capture with korvit-traps. These animals come at night and eat the fruits from the fields. They can destroy entire fields.
qoS - n - birthday
qoSo`va - n - Kosovo
qoSqa`rIy - n - Kos'Karii [Pale, serpent-like creatures which inhabited the waters crossed by the Barge of the Dead on its way to Gre'thor. This word is inherently plural. A singular one is `angwIl.]
qoStarI`qa - n - Costa Rica
qoSta` - n - strip; ribbon; tape [non-sticky]
qot - v - back, sponsor, support, capitalize, invest in [To specify what or how much is invested, make use of peS as in X qotmeH Y peS ("invest Y in X")]
qotDIvwar - n - Cote d'Ivoire, the Ivory Coast
qotlh - v - deserve; warrant
qotlh - v - tickle
qovDa` - n - exponent
qovIj - n - canine-like creature (smaller than a ngavyaw') [a smaller animal, similar to Kruge's pet]
qoy` - v - plead; beg
qo` - n - world; realm
qo` Sor - n - the big "Tree of the Worlds", where the ancient Klingon gods used to live in
qo`la` `awje` - n - cola
qo`qa` qo`la` - n - Coca-Cola
qo`qaD - n - phlegm
qo`qo - n - coconut
qo`rIn - n - chromium salts [used in tanning]
qo`rIn DIr - n - leather [Since this is removed from a body and then altered, it is considered a material, not a body part. The phrase is used in constructions like qo`rIn DIr qogh: leather belt.]
qo`rob - n - puppet [this is as in "puppet state" or "puppet government"]
qo`vID wa`maH Hut - n - COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 disease)
qub - v - be rare
quba` - n - Cuba
qubbID - v - span, run, stretch (between) [There are two ways to say "between", depending on meaning. (1) "between A and B" means "at some (perhaps unknown) point between A and B". In this case, A and B are the extremes of a range. The construction makes use of rav minimum and 'aqroS maximum: rav A 'aqroS B... For example, rav cha' 'uj(mey) 'aqroS loS 'uj(mey) 'ab has a length between two and four ujes (it's at least two ujes long and no more than four). (2) "between A and B" means the full stretch of time (or distance or whatever), from one end of the span to the other. In this case, the noun qubbID is used: DaSjaj buqjaj (je) qubbID maleng we travel Monday to Friday or we travel between Monday and Friday. Compare: DaSjaj buqjaj (je) qubbID maghom we meet between Monday and Friday, we meet Moday to Friday and rav DaSjaj 'aqroS buqjaj maghom we meet between Moday and Friday, we meet at some point between Monday and Friday.]
quch - v - kidnap
quD - n - type of sauce
qugh - v - cruise
qughDo - n - cruising speed
qughDuj - n - cruiser
quH - n - heritage
quH - v - slice, carve
quHvaj - n - dandruff
qul - n - fire
qul chenmoH - v - light a fire, ignite
qul mI`wI` - n - fire dancer
qul naQ - n - match [for lighting fire]
qul ngeng - n - lava lake, fire lake
qul qaDwI` - n - firefighter
qul QongmoHwI` - n - firefighter, one who puts fires to sleep, but that's usually not applied until the fire is actually out
qul SuvwI` - n - firefighter
qul tuq - n - "House (family, ancestral unit) of Fire" name of an opera
qul tlhay`moHwI` - n - firefighter, lit. fire tamer (less frequent)
qul `alwI` - n - will-o'-the-wisp
qulcher - n - cream (dairy product)
qulHuD - n - volcano
qum - n - government
qum - v - govern
qum DuSaQ - n - public school
qumwI` - n - governor
qun - n - history
qun - v - scold
qunQeD - n - history (the science)
quntej - n - historian
qung - n - hole; perforation
qunI` - n - adverb; adverbial
qup - n - elder
quprIp - n - Council of Elders
quq - v - simultaneous; happen simultaneously
qur - v - be greedy
qurDIStan - n - Kurdistan
qurgh - n - bean; beans
qurleH - n - kur'leth (a type of weapon)
qurme` - n - ingredient [The plural qurme`mey is a secret formula, such as the formula for Coca-Cola.]
qurmoQ - n - larynx
qur`ep - n - wig
quS - n - chair quSDaq bIba`. Duh!
quSDI` - n - batch
quSlab - n - couch, bench, chair for multiple people
qut - n - crystal [geologic formation]
qut - v - predict [fraudulent or suspected to be fraudulent, or if it's a carnival act or the like]
qutluch - n - type of hand weapon; ~kut'luch~ [traditional assassin's knife]
qutluch tay - n - ~Kut'luch~ ceremony
qutlh - v - be cheap
qut na` - n - salt (culinary, halite) [also, sometimes, Do'ol na', presumably depending on the exact form of the substance.]
quv - n - honor [personal honor, earned by one's behavior]
quv - v - be honored; be honorable
quv bey` - n - honor display
quvHa` - v - be dishonored
quvHa`ghach - n - dishonor; corruption
quvHa`ghach mIr - n - losing streak
quvHa`moH - v - dishonor
quvmoH - v - honor choquvmoH thank you (to one person) tuquvmoH thank you (to multiple people)
quvyaH - n - habit
quwenya` Hol - n - Quenya
quy`Ip - n - vomit
qu` - excl - great; wonderful [slang]
qu` - v - be fierce; be great; be wonderful; be excellent; be superlative; be
qu`vIgh - n - member (of an august body, like the Klingon High Council)
qu`vu` - n - pyramid with three-sided base

Q

Qa - v - grow (increase in size) [general term] Qa jIb The hair is long.
Qab - n - theragen
Qach - v - wield; swing [a weapon]
QaD - v - be dry; be dried out
QaD - v - be safe; be protected [slang]
QaDmoHwI` DIr - n - towel
Qagh - n - error; mistake; [computer] bug
Qagh - v - err; be mistaken; make a mistake
QaH - n - help
QaH - v - help; aid
QaHa` - v - un-grow [shrink, get smaller back to original size]
Qaj - n - type of animal; ~kradge~
Qaj tlhuQ - n - type of food; ~kradge~ tail
Qajnav - n - diaper
Qal - n - swim
QalmeH DoQmIv`a` - n - swimming pool
Qam - v - stand
Qan - v - protect
Qang - n - chancellor
Qap - v - win [a competition]
Qap - v - work; function; succeed; operate; be in operation
Qapchu` - v - to win (a particularly decisive or gratifying victory)
Qapla` - n - success
QaplaStep - n - spool; reel; spindle
QapwI` mIr - n - winning streak [less common way to say it]
Qaq - v - behave falsely honorably; behave in a falsely honorable manner
QaQ - v - be good QaQchu` be of good quality QaQbej be of good quality QaQqu` be of good quality
Qargh - n - fissure
QaS - n - troops
Qat - v - be popular
Qatlh - v - be complex; be difficult
Qav - v - be final; be last
Qaw - v - rub (object is surface being rubbed; if you use something to rub (like a cloth), then use the verb lo` with that thing)
Qaw` - v - destroy
Qay - n - Klingon ~Q~ sound
Qay - v - transfer
Qay` - v - blow one's top; lose one's temper
Qay` - v - use the little toe [fifth toe] [archaic]
Qay`mol - n - puzzle [like a jigsaw puzzle or those metal hoops that need to be untangled or any puzzle that involves a physical object or objects that must be manipulated.]
Qay`mol teSra` - n - puzzle piece [referring to a jigsaw puzzle]
Qay`wI` - n - little toe; fifth toe
Qa` - n - type of animal
Qa`Hom - n - type of animal [similar to a ~Qa'~; but smaller]
Qa`raj - n - type of animal; ~ka'raj~
Qeb - n - ponytail holder [slang]
Qeb - n - ring [for finger]
Qechjem - n - stem, stalk
Qechjem`a` - n - trunk (of tree)
QeD - n - science
QeDpIn - n - science officer
QeH - n - anger
QeH - v - be angry; be mad
Qej - v - cherish, treasure; value; prize; consider precious
Qel - n - doctor; physician
Qem - v - holster, sheathe, pocket (weapon, tool, instrument)
QemjIq - n - hole; cavity
Qen - v - be naked, be nude
Qenno` - n - pulp (of a plant)
Qenvob - n - ground-up; dried-up mixture for brewing tea; tea-brewing mixture
Qep - v - be anxious (about), worry (about) [takes an object]
Qep`It - n - gas produced within the body [belch; flatulence etc.]
Qeq - v - aim; face (The object is the one oriented toward someone or something, and the thing or person being faced is marked with -Daq. With this meaning, this verb is often used with -'egh or -chuq.)
Qev - v - stew
Qey - v - be tight
QeyHa` - v - be loose
QeyHa`moH - v - loosen
QeymoH - v - tighten
Qey` - v - be cool (moderately cold)
Qe` - n - restaurant
Qe` much - n - cabaret (show) [the show performed in a much Qe']
Qe`jIj - n - catalyst
QI - n - bridge [e.g. over river]
QIb - n - shadow
QIb - v - filter, strain, sieve, sift [Only for physical filtering, not for filtering words. The object is the thing that gets filtered.]
QIch - n - speech [vocal sounds]
QIch wab - n - phoneme
QIch wab Ho`DoS - n - pronunciation
QIch wab Sar - n - allophone
QID - v - wound
QIghpej - n - Klingon agonizer
QIH - n - damage; destruction; wound
QIH - v - damage; cause damage
QIH - v - wrong; treat unjustly
QIj - v - explain
QIl - v - be desperate [" . . . as when there's no way out, they have nothing to lose. This includes ideas like 'last-ditch, do-or-die, hopeless, doomed'"]
QIm - n - egg
QIm julHom - n - yolk (slang)
QImHal - n - ovary
QIn - n - message
QIn - n - sharp end [e.g. on pen]; spearhead
QIn - v - inject
QIn pup - n - plain spearhead [with single sharp point]
QIn tum - n - postal service
QIn tum qach - n - post office
QIn vagh - n - spearhead [with multiple points]
QIn `echletHom - n - postcard
QIncha` - n - type of animal; ~krincha~
QIngheb - n - an ancient weapon similar to the ghIntaq-spear. The handle is longer and the blade has a bent horn at the end. Not used very often anymore.
QIp - v - be stupid
QIq - v - draw, pull out (weapon, tool, instrument)
QIS - n - wavy-bladed knife
QIS - v - stitch (the object is the thing being sewn or stitched together); sew
QISmaS - n - Christmas
QIt - adv - slowly
QIv - v - be inferior
QI` - n - military
QI`lop - n - a traditional holiday
QI`tomer - n - Khitomer [planet]
QI`tu` - n - Paradise
QI`yaH - excl - *?!#@ [curse]
Qo - n - tendency, propensity
Qob - n - danger
Qob - v - be dangerous
Qoch - v - disagree
Qochbe` - v - agree
QoD - v - maneuver [engines]
Qogh - n - type of animal
QoghIj - n - brain [organ]
Qoghogh - v - snort [like a pig does, but not restricted to pigs or targs]
QoH - v - tap
Qoj - v - make war
Qol - v - beam away
Qom - v - be hazardous; be perilous; be treacherous [slang]
Qom - v - experience an earthquake or tremor
QonoS - n - journal; log
Qong - v - sleep
QongDaq - n - bed
QongDaq buq - n - pillow; bed pouch
QongDaq buqHom - n - pillow; bed pouch
QongDaq `echlet tun - n - mattress
QongDaqDaq - n - in bed
QongmoH - n - put to sleep; extinguish [fire]
Qop - v - be dead [referring to food] [slang]
Qop - v - be worn out
QopmoH - v - wear out
QoQ - n - music
QoQ ghom - n - band (group playing music)
QoQ ngutlh - n - written musical note (when referring to the glyph or character itself)
QoQ jan - n - musical instrument
QoQ yaH - n - stage (for musical performances)
Qor - v - fight; battle [very minor fight]
Qorgh - v - take care of; care for
Qorwagh - n - window
QoS - v - be sorry
Qot - v - lie; recline
Qotmagh Sep - n - Krotmag region
Qotlh - v - disable
Qovpatlh - excl - [epithet]
Qoy - v - hear; listen to
Qoy` - v - spill
Qoyje` - n - certificate, diploma
Qoylu`taH - v - the clock is ticking (idiomatically) [Is used in a situation when one is working towards a deadline, for instance.]
Qo` - excl - no; I won't; I refuse; I disagree
Qo`noS - n - Kronos [the Klingon home world]
Qu - v - cast (metal)
Qub - v - think
Quch - n - forehead
Quch - v - be happy; be merry
QuchHa` - v - be unhappy
QuD - n - insurrection
Qugh - n - disaster
Quj - n - game
Quj - v - play a game
QujmeH moQ - n - ball
QujwI` lIw - n - game token; game piece
Qul - v - research
Qulpa` - n - research lab
Qum - n - communication
Qum - v - communicate
QumeH ngaSwI` - n - mold (for casting)
QumpIn - n - communications officer
Qumran - n - scroll
QumwI` - n - communicator; communications device
Qun - n - god; supernatural being
Qung - v - be rounded, blunt [like the corner of table that is not a sharp angle]
Qup - v - be young
QuQ - n - engine
Qur - n - structure, organization, arrangement, anatomy
QuS - n - conspiracy
QuS - v - conspire
Qut - v - be vulgar
Qutlh - v - support
Quv - n - coordinates
Qu` - n - duty; quest; mission; task; chore
Qu`Hom - n - errand
Qu`vatlh - excl - #*@! [general invective]

r

rab - v - be gigantic, be huge, be humongous, be giant, be enormous
rach - v - invigorate; fortify; strengthen
rachwI` - n - nurse
raD - v - force; compel
ragh - v - decay; rust; corrode
raghghan - n - doll, action figure, miniature humanoid
raHta` - n - type of food; ~racht~
rajma` - n - kidney
ral - v - be violent
ram - n - night
ram - v - be trivial; be trifling; be unimportant; be insignificant
ramDung - n - gum (as in chewing gum) (This really refers to a not-sweet Klingon version of gum)
ramjep - n - midnight
rap - v - be the same
rapmar - n- oar
raq - v - be repetitive/redundant
raqvel - n - railing without post
raQ - n - camp [military term]; outpost
raQ - v - manipulate by hand; handle [One can {raQ} a {betleH}, meaning move it around in various ways, but the {betleH} by itself isn’t doing anything. Indeed, one may {raQ} any (non-powered) hand tool. By extension, {raQ} is also used for creating a work of art, since the clay or stone or whatever just sits there until the {raQwI’} (so to speak) comes along.]
raQpo` - n - passenger
rar - v - connect
rarchuq - v - be related [generally/conceptually, from rar "connect"]
rarwI` - n - plug [this is "connector"; an electric plug is `ul rarwI`]
raS - n - table
raS De`wI` - n - desktop computer
raSber naH - n - raspberry
raSya` - n - Russia
raS`IS - n - seed
raS`IS moQ naH - n - pomegranate
ratlh - v - remain
rav - n - floor
rav - n - minimum
rav De`lor - n - stalagmite
ravngI` - n - furniture, item of furniture (stand-alone only, not built-in)
rav`eq - n - ceiling [of a room that has a room above it]
raw - v - lightning
raw` - n - type of bird [aquatic; colorful plumage]
ray - n - Klingon ~r~ sound; trill; ray tlhen make an r sound, trill
rayQeD - n - genetics
raytej - n - geneticist
raywal - n - booth (small building) [Has a roof, not like a cubicle or carrel open at the top. A raywal is usually used for people; a HuDyar is used for storage.]
ray` - n - targets
ray` tIr - n - rice
ra` - v - order; command; conduct (an orchestra)
ra`Duch - n - triangle
ra`Duch puj - n - scalene triangle
ra`Duch quv - n - isosceles triangle
ra`Duch tIQ - n - equilateral triangle
ra`Duch tut - n - prism with three-sided base
ra`ghomquv - n - High Command
ra`taj - n - coffee with liquor; type of beverage
ra`wI` - n - commander
ra`wI` lupwI` - n - taxi
ra`yIn - n - Rhine
rebmugh - n - resin
rech - v - exhale
reD - n - exterior wall; side [of something]
reDlIgh - n - fluorine
reDyev - n - shortage
reD`eS - n - bureaucracy [The slang expression pumnuj reD`eS is used if things are definitely inefficient]
regh - v - bleed
reghuluS - n - Regulus
reghuluS `Iwghargh - n - Regulan bloodworm
reghuluSngan - n - Regulan
reH - adv - always
reH - v - play
rejghun - n - undergarments, underwear [This refers to underwear in general. To be more specific, say rejghun yopwaH bID, etc.]
rejghun yopwaH bID - n - underpants
rejmorgh - n - worrywart
rel - v - be dazed [in the sense of confused, unable to think properly, bewildered]
relleghDaq - n - psychokinesis, telekinesis
rem - v - suck (e.g. through a straw)
remloS - n - gut, guts
rem`ay` - n - diaphragm, thoracic diaphragm (body part)
ren - v - design, map out, plan (a physical object)
renwI` - n - designer, architect
renyarDaq - n - psychic ability
renyarDaq QeD - n - parapsychology
renyarDaq tej - n - parapsychologist
rep - n - hour; o'clock
repnuj - n - gum (oral anatomy)
republIyqaDomInIqa`na - n - Dominican Republic
rep`eSlaqram - n - mascot
req - n - wax
reqwer - n - shrimp-like animal
reS - v - grow (flowers/plant/vegetables) [as in "she grows carrots"]
reS - v - conjure, cast a spell
reStav - n - shin, forearm
reStav Hom - n - shinbone, tibia
ret - n - time period ago
ret - v - be most recent
retlaw - n - dent, indentation
ret`aq - n - handle; hilt [of knife; ~bat'leth~]
retlh - n - area beside; area next to
rev - v - quote
rewbe` - n - citizen
rewve` - n - air (everyday word)
rewve` mIjdang - n - fan, handheld fan
rey - v - squeeze and stretch out [windbag instrument]
rey` - n - special performance or presentation [This is a noun that's kind of hard to define in a word or two, but it refers to a performance or presentation that's pretty special in some way. Maybe it's something that happens only once, not to be repeated. Or maybe it occurs regularly but not very often, so it's something looked forward to well in advance. Maybe it's something that features a special performer or performers.]
re`chIv - n - internal organ
re`Hom`at - n - scarf (on neck)
re`lIng - n - instinct (singular)
rIb - v - be spread, spread out [like a deck of cards fanned out on a table or peanut butter on a piece of bread]
rIch - v - talk about, discuss [The object of this verb is the topic of the discussion.]
rIchwIn - n - directive, injunction
rID - v - digest (the process food goes through)
rID`oH - n - the closest Klingon equivalent to barley
rID`oH HIq - n - barley liquor, beer made from barley
rIgh - v - be lame
rIH - v - energize
rIHwI` - n - energizer
rIj - v - be moored, be anchored
rIjHa` - v - be adrift; float (in air/space)
rIjmeH tlhegh - n - tether, leash
rIjwI` - n - tether, leash (short form)
rIl - v - play [a horn/wind instrument]
rIl - v - use the thumb [usually used to/about children]
rIlwI` - n - thumb [usually used to/about children]
rImbey - n - hormone
rIn - v - be accomplished; be finished
rIp - n - council; assembly
rIq - v - pioneer, break through, innovate [This would apply to a scientific breakthrough or discovery, but not to, say, setting a new record in a bat'leth twirling competition]
rIQ - v - be injured; be damaged
rIQmoH - v - injure
rIS - n - click rIS tlhen (it) produces a click sound
rIS - v - make a clicking, cracking, or snapping sound, emit a signal [rIS originally referred to emitting sound only. Later the meaning was extended to mean emitting any sort of signal – sound, radiation, smell, etc. tlhuD refers to radiation only.]
rISlIw - n - tar
rIt - v - summon
rItlh - n - pigment; paint; dye
rItlh naQ - n - pigment stick
rItlh vol - n - stencil
rItlh `echlet - n - ink pad
rIv - v - split [like an axe does to a watermelon]
rIvSo` - n - embassy
rIymuS - n - Remus
rI` - v - hail
rI`gheS - n - deflector (singular)
rI`meH wovmoHwI` - n - beacon
rI`Se` - n - hailing frequency
rI`wI` - n - loudspeaker
ro - n - trunk [of body]
rober - n - axis
rober jan - n - lathe
robwIl - n - nightmare (this can be the object of naj "dream" or SIQ "endure" and some other verbs, but generally not ghaj "have" (unless you somehow literally possess a nightmare))
rob`agh - n - hologram
roD - adv - customarily; habitually; regularly; automatically; routinely
roDSer - n - dimension
roDSon - n - uvula
rogh - v - ferment
roghmoH - v - cause to ferment
roghvaH - n - population
roj - n - peace
roj - v - make peace
rojHom - n - truce
rojmab - n - peace treaty
rojmab qep - n - peace talks; peace meeting
rol - n - beard
rol taj - n - razor
rom - n - accord
romanI`ya` - n - Romania
roma` - n - Rome
romta` - n - octave
romton - n - bracket, corbel
romuluS - n - Romulus
romuluS HIq - n - Romulan ale
romuluSngan - n - Romulan
rom`on - n - zinc
ron - v - be banking; be rolling [aircraft rotates around longitudinal axis];
ronmoH - v - throw [dice]; bank [aircraft]; roll
rong - v - roast, grill, broil [can be used generally, not just for how Terrans tend to ruin food]
rop - n - disease
rop - v - be sick; be ill
roptoj - n - scar (result of some sort of disease, infection, etc.)
ropyaH - n - infirmary
ropyaH qach - n - hospital
rop`a` - n - plague
roQ - v - put down
ror - v - be fat, not lean [implies bulk due to body fat or the like; anthropomorphizes inanimate objects]
rorgh - v - be fantasy [This is "be fantastic" in the fantasy sense; it does not mean "be wonderful, terrific"]
roS - v - lick; roSbe` (slang) be randy, be horny
roS - v - use the third toe [archaic]
roSghaH - n - DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)
roSHa`moH - v - paralyze [cause to be paralyzed]
roSmaH - n - chromosome
roSmaH bID - n - X chromosome [two roSmaH bID chromosomes occur in Klingon females, one roSmaH bID chromosome and one roSmaH pagh chromosome occur in Klingon males.]
roSmaH pagh - n - Y chromosome [one roSmaH bID chromosome and one roSmaH pagh chromosome occur in Klingon males.]
roSqa` - n - archaeological artifact
roSqa`QeD - n - archaeology
roSqa`tej - n - archaeologist
roSwI` - n - third toe
rotlh - v - be tough
ro` - n - fist
ro` mojchugh ghIt -- on the other hand
ro`qa` - n - tonsil
ro`qegh`Iwchab - n - rokeg blood pie
ro`Sa` - n - rose
rubyo` - n - politician
ruch - v - proceed; go ahead; do it
ruDelya` - n - Rudellia
ruDelya` rop`a` - n - Rudellian plague
rugh - n - antimatter
ruH - v - blush
ruj - v - be physical (subject to the laws of physics; could be applied to something corporeal but also to energy)
run - v - be short [in stature; of hair]
runpI` - n - teapot
rup - v - fine; tax
ruq - v - belch; burp
ruqwI` - n - grenade (slang term)
ruq`e`vet - n - Ruk'evet [city in Gevchok region]
ruQ - v - control manually; by hand [refers to controlling or handling something that can or may do something on its own (or due to some source of power), but the manual intervention causes it to do something else or behave differently. So if your robot vacuum cleaner starts wandering off in a direction you don’t want it to go, you could {ruQ} it to get it back on track (by, say, picking it up and reorienting it).]
rur - v - resemble
rura` pente` - n - Rura Penthe
ruryuD - n - rhinoceros-like animal
ruS - n - bond
ruS - v - have a positive charge, be positively charged
ruStay - n - bonding ritual
ruSvep - n - invitation
rut - adv - sometimes; occasionally
rutneD - n - hoe
rutlh - n - wheel
rutlh - v - be round [like a circle]
rutlh `echlet - n - skateboard
rutlhHom - n - scroll wheel on a computer mouse
ruv - n - justice
ruv nay` - n - dessert
ruv`etlh - n - sword of justice
ruwanDa - n - Rwanda
ru` - v - be temporary
ru`Ha` - v - be permanent

S

Sa - v - rhyme with [For "A rhymes with B", you could say B Sa A or Sachuq A B je (which might be better translated as "A and B rhyme").]
Sab - v - decline; deteriorate
Sach - v - expand [can be used [as an adjective] for: be amplified, fleshed out, elaborated, increased in scope, etc.], be magnified
SaD - num - thousand [number-forming element]
Sagh - v - be serious
Saghan - num - billion [1,000 times one million]
SaH - v - be present [not absent]
SaH - v - care [about]; be concerned [about]
SaHa`ra` - n - Sahara
SaHHa`ghach - n - disinterest; apathy
Saj - n - pet
Sal - v - ascend
Sam - v - locate; seek and find
Sam - n - shawm
SambaSa Hol - n - Sambahsa
SambIya - n - Zambia
SammarI`no - n - San Marino
Sammowa - 'n - Samoa
San - n - fate, destiny
SanDIy - n - scar (result of a wound received in the course of fighting/battling)
SanID - num - thousand [number-forming element]
SanmIr - n - spore
Santay - n - zantai (honorific, grade 4)
Santlhar - n - silicon
San`emDer - n - plant [This refers to an individual plant, typically with stems, leaves, etc. It is not used for fungi or algae.]
San`on - n - bit (of computer memory)
Sang - v - obliterate
Sap - v - volunteer
Saq - v - land [on ground]
SaqDaq - n - landing site
Saqghom - n - landing party
Saqjan - n - landing gear
SaQ - v - cry [not scream]
SaQatvelo` - n - Georgia (country)
Sar - n - variety
Sar - v - be varied; be various
Sarbruqen - n - Saarbrücken (Germany)
Sargh - n - type of animal resembling a horse; ~sark~
SaS - v - be horizontal
SaS - v - be shallow; be superficial; be uncritical [slang]
SaS - v - be unfortunate; be not good [slang]
Sat - v - be stuck [like being stuck in a meeting or stuck in traffic; also, for some reason, it be would be for a cat stuck in a tree]
Satlh - n - agriculture
Savvanwer - n - nonave
Saw - v - marry [husband does this]
Sawlay - n - gesture [Maltz didn't know a verb for this. To use a gesture is Sawlay lo` or else a specific gesture verb (such as SIq, qay, etc.).]
Sawqe` - n - nugget, chunk, clump
SawtavrI`qa` - n - South Africa
Saw` - v - have a depth of
Say - n - Klingon ~S~ sound
Say` - v - be clean
Say`qIS - n - dust, powder
Say`qu`moH - v - sterilize
Say`moHmeH DoQmIv`a - n - bathtub
Say`moHwI` tlhagh - n - soap
Sa` - n - general [rank]
Sa`Hut - n - ass, rear end, buttocks; back [of something]; trunk, boot (of a car)
Sa`Qej Sep - n - Sakrej region
Sech - n - torch
SeD - v - drive (a land vehicle); ride (a horse, bicycle, etc.)
SeDveq - n - barbed spearhead
Segh - n - race [type; sort; class]
SeH - v - control
SeHlaw - n - control panel
SemI`tIS Hol - n - Semitish
Sen - v - use the thumb [usually used to/about adults]; scoff (slang)
Sen - n - Seine
SenDeq - n - twin
SenDeq ghuD - n - identical twin
SenDeq tlhIn - n - fraternal twin
Seneghal - n - Senegal
Senjorgh - n - grenade
SenwI` - n - thumb [usually used to/about adults]
SenwI` rIlwI` je - n - everybody (idiomatic phrase)
Seng - n - trouble
Seng - v - cause trouble
Sep - n - region; country
Sep - v - breed wejlogh Sep1egh cha1 chen chorgh. Two to the third power is eight.
Separ - n - type of gemstone; ~separ~
Seq - n - fault [seismic]
SeQ - v - be formal; be ritualistic; be ceremonial
SeQHa` - v - be casual
Ser - n - progress
SermanyuQ - n - Sherman's Planet
Serrum - n - earwax
SeS - n - steam
SeS ghItwI` - n - geyser (from which steam is emitted)
SeSor - n - subject (in syntax)
SetqIn - adv - alternatively, instead, rather
Setlhlo` - n - arsenic
Sev - n - bandage
Sev - v - contain [an enemy]
Sey - v - be excited
SeymoH - v - excite
Se` - n - frequency [radio]
Se`tu` - n - saucepan
Se`vernamaqeDonya` - n - (North) Macedonia
Se`vIr - n - publication
SIbDoH - n - satellite
SIbI` - adv - immediately
SIbI`Ha` - v - later; eventually; after a delay
SIch - v - reach
SIchIyparIy - n - Albania
SID - n - patient
SIgh - v - influence
SIH - v - bend
SIHHa'moH - v - solve (slang)
SIHmoH - n - bend [transitive]; raise (one's eyebrows)
SIj - v - be insightful; be clever; have a keen mind [slang]
SIj - v - slit; slash
SIjwI` - n - type of knife [used for food preparation]
SIl - v - divert
SIla` - n - mirror [larger]
SIlovenISqa` - n - Slovakia
SIlove`nIya - n - Slovenia
SIm - v - calculate
SImbabwe - n - Zimbabwe
SImroD - n - power (physics)
SImyon - n - degree (unit of measure for temperature)
SInan - n - compass (refers to any kind of compass. If necessary, one might distinguish by adding tlhIngan or tera' or whatever needed.)
SInDarIn Hol - n - Sindarin
SIntlher - n - prehistoric animal; dinosaur [non-scientific, general term]
SIngapor - n - Singapore
SIp - n - gas
SIprat - n - bristle, stiff hair or filament
SIq - v - use the index finger [first finger]
SIqenDInavya` - n - Scandinavia
SIqnaSwaq - n - elf, gnome, a type of small person
SIqotlan - n - Scotland
SIqwI` - n - index finger; first finger
SIQ - v - endure; bear
SIQab`el - n - Scrabble (the game)
SIQwI` - n - celebrant; recipient
SIr - v - be unique, be unprecedented
SIrbIya` - n - Serbia
SIrgh - n - string; thread; filament; spaghetti
SIrgh may`ron raS - n - piano or harpsichord
SIrgh moqwI` may`ron raS - n - piano
SIrgh pangwI` may`ron raS - n - harpsichord
SIrgh raghghan - n - puppet [literally "string doll", the doll that is used in performances]
SIrgh `aplom - n - bead
SIrgh `o`lav - n - snare drum
SIrHagh - n - buffoon, laughingstock (particularly insulting version of SIrHugh)
SIrHugh - n - buffoon, laughingstock
SIrIl - n- hook
SIrIylangqa - n - Sri Lanka
SIrlIy - n - silver
SIryoD - n - body armor (old form)
SIr`eq - n - unit of radioactive decay
SIr`o` - n - network, web, mesh, lattice, nexus
SIS - v - rain
SIS yoD - n - umbrella
SIv - v - wonder
SIyech - n - cane, reed
SIye`ralIyon - n - Sierra Leone
Soch - n - seventh tone of nonatonic musical scale
Soch - num - seven
Soch reD mey` - n - heptagon
Soch reD `Impey` - n - pyramid [with seven-sided base]
SochbIp - num - seven hundred thousand
SochbIpDIch - num - seven hundred thousandth
SochbIp`uy` - num - seven hundred billion
SochbIp`uy`DIch - num - seven hundred billionth
SochDIch - num - seventh
SochmaH - num - seventy
SochmaHDIch - num - seventieth
SochmaHSaghan - num - seventy billion
SochmaHSaghanDIch - num - seventy billionth
SochmaH`uy` - num - seventy million
SochmaH`uy`DIch - num - seventy millionth
Sochnetlh - num - seventy thousand
SochnetlhDIch - num - seventy thousandth
Sochnetlh`uy` - num - seventy billion
Sochnetlh`uy`DIch - num - seventy billionth
SochSaD - num - seven thousand
SochSaDbIp - num - seven thousand million
SochSaDbIpDIch - num - seven thousand millionth
SochSaDDIch - num - seven thousandth
SochSaDSaghan - num - seven trillion
SochSaDSaghanDIch - num - seven trillionth
SochSaghan - num - seven billion
SochSaghanDIch - num - seven billionth
SochSanID - num - seven thousand
SochSanIDbIp - num - seven thousand million
SochSanIDbIpDIch - num - seven thousand millionth
SochSanIDDIch - num - seven thousandth
SochSanIDSaghan - num - seven trillion
SochSanIDSaghanDIch - num - seven trillionth
Sochvatlh - num - seven hundred
SochvatlhbIp - num - seventy million
SochvatlhbIpDIch - num - seventy millionth
SochvatlhDIch - num - seven hundredth
SochvatlhSaghan - num - seven hundred billion
SochvatlhSaghanDIch - num - seven hundred billionth
Sochvatlh`uy` - num - seven hundred million
Sochvatlh`uyDIch - num - seven hundred millionth
Soch`uy` - num - seven million
Soch`uy`DIch - num - seven millionth
SoD - n - flood
SoD - v - flood
Sogh - n - lieutenant
SoH - pro - you
Soj - n - food; drink; matter; concern; affair [idiomatic use]
Soj choHwI` - n - replicator that produces food [slang]
Soj chuv - n - leftover food
Soj qub - n - haute cuisine
Soj naQ - n - chopstick
Sol - v - quarrel
Sol - n - Sol, the Sun (Earth's sun)
Sol cha` - n - Venus
Sol chorgh - n - Neptune
Sol jav - n - Saturn
Sol loS - n - Mars
Sol Soch - n - Uranus
Sol vagh - n - Jupiter
Sol wa` - n - Mercury
SolbIS - n - whale, dolphin, porpoise [Any fishlike creature that has to come up to breathe air]
SolDeS - n - sail
SolreySol Hol - n - Solresol
Solrogh - n - railing, guardrail, banister
Solrogh tut - n - support for railing
Som - n - hull
Soma`lIya - n - Somalia
SommI` - n - tool, implement, instrument
Somraw - n - muscle
Son - v - relieve (in the sense of relieving stress or pain)
SonchIy - n - death ritual [for a leader]
Sonme` - n - set, group, party (Groups made up of a specific number of members (whether people or otherwise) are referred to idiomatically by using Sonme' ("set, group, party") preceded by the number, so wej Sonme' is "group of three, party of three, trio, triplet," loS Sonme' is "quartet, quadruplet," and so on. cha' Sonme' ("group of two, duo") could mean twins, but SenDeqpu' is far more common.)
Sop - v - eat
SopwI`pa` - n - mess hall
SoQ - n - speech; lecture; address
SoQ - v - be closed; be shut
SoQmoH - v - close; shut
Sor - n - tree; club (card suit)
Sor DIr - n - bark (of tree)
Sor Hap - n - wood
Sor Hap `In - n - percussion instrument made of wood
Sor `IventoH - n - pine cone, lit. tree pineapple (the proper term is qet'uy)
Sorgh - v - sabotage
Sorghmang - n - sabotage
Sornagh - n - coma
Sorpuq - n - copper
Sorya` - n - Sauria
SoS - n - mother
SoSbor - n - core; motherboard
SoSbor`a` - n - main core
SoSnI` - n - grandmother
SoS taj - n - mother's knife
Sot - v - be distressed; be in distress
Sotlaw` - n - distress call
Sotlhqel - n - yolk
Sov - n - knowledge
Sov - v - know
Soy` - v - be clumsy
So` - v - hide; cloak; encrypt
So`chIm - n - soh-chim
So`Ha` - v - decloak; decrypt [done with permission, by an authorized party]
So`mIS Hol - n - Somish [conlang]
So`wI` - n - cloaking device
Sub - n - hero
Sub - v - be brave; be heroic; be bold; be valiant; be intrepid [slang]
Sub - v - be solid
SubmaH - n - fraction, ratio [can be used to mean "frequency" in such constructions as wanI' SubmaH "frequency, occurrence ratio" or yay SubmaH" victory ratio" or "frequency of victories"]
Subpu` vaS - n - Hall of Heroes
Such - v - visit
Suchtuv - n - dream (oneiric experience), hallucination (use with SIQ or naj)
SuD - v - be green; be blue; be yellow
SuD - v - gamble; take a chance; take a risk
SuD `ej wov - v - be light blue; be blonde
SuDan - n - Sudan
Sugh - v - install [in office]
SuH - excl - ready; standing by
Suj - v - disturb
Sum - v - be near; be nearby
Sum - n - Zoom (videochat app)
Sumlugh - n - definition (as a definition of a word in a monolingual dictionary)
Sun - n - discipline
Suntay` - n - pollen
Sung - n - native
Sup - n - resource
Sup - v - jump
SupDIng - n - plant similar to cotton
Supghew - n - type of stringed instrument (like a ukulele)
Suq - v - acquire; obtain; get; catch
Suqqa` - v - prepare ~qud~ in a specific way
SuqSIv - n - core (of an apple, planet, sun, but not a group)
SuqwIl - n - hiss SuqwIl tlhen to hiss
SuQ - v - be toxic
Surchem - n - force field
Surgh - v - skin
SurIna`ma - n - Suriname
Surma` - n - force (physics concept)
Surmen - n - pressure
Surya` - n - Syria
SuS - n - wind; breeze
SuS - v - blow [into wind instrument] to produce sound
SuS may`ron raS - n - organ (musical instrument)
SuS mIjdang - n - fan, handheld fan
SuSDeq - n - windbag; bellows
SuSHom - n - whirlwind
SuS`a` - n - tornado
Sut - n - clothing
Sut DeSwar - n - wardrobe, clothing closet
Sut HabmoHwI` - n - iron
Sut veragh - n - button [part of clothing]
Sutay - n - sutai (honorific, grade 3)
Suto`vo`qor - n - Sto-Vo-Kor
Sutra`ber naH - n - strawberry
Sutlh - v - negotiate
Sutlhne` - n - amateur
Suv - v - fight
Suvchu` - v - fight to the death
Suverya` - n - Sweden
SuvwI` - n - warrior
SuwISya` - n - Switzerland
SuwomIy - n - Finland
Suy - n - merchant
SuyDar - n - qubit
SuyDar San`on - n - qubit
SuyDuj - n - merchant ship
SuynIj - n - sweat, perspiration
Suy` - n - type of animal; ~shooy~
Su` - excl - ready; standing by
Su`ghar qut - n - sugar
Su`ghar ramDung - n - gum (as in chewing gum)
Su`ghar Sawqe` - n - candy
Su`ghar SIrghmey - n - cotton candy
Su`lop - n - type of food
Su`nIm - n - raised profile, ridges, pattern (as in fingerprints, tires, shoe tread)
Su`roq - n - floor (in building) (Su'roq wa'DIch is the ground floor, then Su'roq cha'DIch etc.)
Su`wan ghew - n - insect like a butterfly
Su`wIn - n - whistle (A large whistle with a deep sound, such as on a large ship (seagoing ship — a starship is not likely to have one of these) or at a factory.)

t

ta - n - record
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)
tach - n - bar; saloon; cocktail lounge
tach - v - turn over [if something flipped over on its own accord or seemingly on its own accord]
tachmoH - v - turn over [You'd be more likely to use tachmoH than yoymoH when moving someone from a prone to supine position. And you'd be more likely to use yoymoH than tachmoH when flipping over hamburgers or pancakes. On the other hand, either would be fine or flipping over cards, with yoymoH implying a quicker or crisper action.]
taD - v - be frozen
taDmoH - v - freeze
tagh - n - lung
tagh - v - begin a process; initiate proceedings
tagha` - adv - finally; at last
taH - v - be at a negative angle
taH - v - continue; go on; endure; survive
taHqeq - excl - [epithet]
taH taH taH - n - et cetera, etc. [informal]
taj - n - knife; dagger
taj Hol - n - propaganda
tajHommey - n - retractable small blades on a ~d'k tahg~ knife
tajtIq - n - type of knife
tajvaj - n - angle; corner [of a room]
tajvaj leD - n - right angle
tajvajHom - n - acute angle
tajvaj`a` - n - obtuse angle
tal - n - cannon
talarngan - n - Talarian [person]
tallIt - n - cobalt
tam - v - be quiet
tam - v - exchange; substitute; replace
tamghay - n - light, luminescence, illumination
tamler - n - element (in chemistry)
tamlerQeD - n - chemistry
tamlerQeD yaH - n - chemistry lab
tamlertej - n - chemist
tammoH - v - silence
tampere - n - Tampere [a city in Finland]
tanje`rIn - n - tangerine, clementine, mandarin
tanSanI`ya - n - Tanzania
tang - v - trip, stumble
tangqa` - n - type of animal [similar to a bull; used about both male and female]
tap - v - mash; squash
tapqej - n - fruit similar to a cherry
taq - v - be scarred
taqmoH - v - scar
taq`ev - n - Tak'ev [city or region]
taQ - v - be weird
taQbang - n - exhaust; slang for either "urine" or "fecal matter"
tar - n - poison
tarDIghaD - n - tardigrade
targh - n - targ
targh tIq - n - type of food; heart of targ
targhoroj - n - one of several crab-like animals found on Qo'noS
targho`nI` - n - tungsten
tarleq - n - herb (This is a term used only in reference to food preparation)
tarngeb - n - uranium
taS - n - solution [liquid]
taSman - n - ditch
tat - n - ion
tat taS - n - electrolyte
tatlh - v - return [a thing to its origin or source]
tav - v - shake [transitive] tav neH tinker with [slang]
tavwI` - n - amateur (slang)
taw - n - road, street, path, etc (physical version of He)
taw `ay` - n - city block
tawI`yan - n - Tawi'yan [Klingon counterpart (more or less) of the best man at a wedding. This is normally translated as "sword-bearer," but etymologically that's not quite right. It's a frozen and somewhat modified form of an old word which was apparently something like taywI`yan, having something to do with ceremony or ritual tay and sword yan, but the details of the old grammatical construction are unknown.]
tawleHnu` - n - hopeless situation (snafu, fubar)
tawleHnu` pogh - n - emphatically hopeless situation
taw` - v - be ridgy, embossed [the opposite of `ap (be dented) (not used for foreheads)]
tay - n - ceremony; rite; ritual
tay - n - Klingon ~t~ sound
tay - v - be civilized
tay - n - tai (honorific, grade 1)
taygher - n - tiger
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.
taymoH - v - civilize
tayqeq - n - civilization
tay` - v - be together
ta` - n - accomplishment; deed
ta` - n - emperor
ta` - v - accomplish
ta` Hol - n - standard dialect
ta` tlhIngan Hol - n - standard dialect
ta`qo - n - taco
teb - v - fill
teblaw` - n - jurisdiction
tebwI` - n - food server in a ~Dok'e~ [fast-food restaurant]
teghbat - n - type of animal; ~teg'bat~
teH - v - be true; be right, be correct (of a phrase, fact)
tej - n - scientist
tel - n - wing
tellarngan - n - Tellarite
telun Hovtay` - n - Tellun Star System
telya` - n - pancreas
tel`em - n - mentor
tem - v - deny, contradict, disavow, claim as false [It does not mean "refuse, reject, turn down, don't permit".]
tem - n - electron
ten - v - embark (intransitive)
tennuS - n - uncle [father's brother]
tennuSnal - n - uncle [father's sister's husband]
tenwal - n - page (in a book)
tengchaH - n - space station
tep - n - cargo; baggage
tepqengwI` - n - cargo carrier; cargo lift
teq - v - remove; take off
tera` - n - Earth
tera` bIQ lung`a` - n - alligator, crocodile
tera` buq`ach - n - trombone
tera` chuch mIl`oD - n - polar bear
tera` ghIch rop - n - common cold
tera` HIq qIj - n - stout (beer)
tera` `Insong majaj - n - cauliflower
tera` `IventoH - n - pineapple
tera` mabeb - n - frog, toad
tera` majaj tIy - n - kale
tera` majajHom' - n - Brussels sprouts
tera` nagh DIr charwI` - n - snail
tera` na`ran - n - orange [fruit]
tera` na`ran chang - n - marmalade
tera` na`ran HuH - n - marmalade
tera` na`ran wIb - n - lemon
tera` na`ran`a` - n - grapefruit
tera` paSjav - n - cinnamon
tera` peb`ot - n - cucumber
tera` qet`uy - n - pine cone (Terran)
tera` qIrqoD - n - pine
tera` qIrqoD qet`uy - n - pine cone (Terran)
tera` ramDung - n - gum (as in chewing gum)
tera` raS`IS moQ naH - n - pomegranate
tera` rop bIr - n - common cold
tera` tapqej - n - cherry
tera` tlhuH rop - n - common cold
tera` valqe` - n - bat (animal)
tera` vIghro``a` - n - Terran big cat (lion, tiger, jaguar, etc.)
tera` voDchuch - n - spider (large Terran spider)
tera` voDchuchHom - n - spider (small Terran spider)
tera` yav `atlhqam - n - mushroom
tera` `arDeH - n - ivy (Terran)
tera` `epIn - n - peach
tera` `ImtIy - n - llama, alpaca, vicuña, guanaco
tera` `oQqar qIj - n - licorice
tera`ngan - n - Terran; Earther
teS - n - ear [internal; organ of hearing]
teS HablI` - n - wireless earbud
teSra` - n - tile (such as a Scrabble piece)
tet - v - melt
tetyub - n - enamel, coating (This refers to any sort of artificial coating, not just enamel. It does not apply to teeth.)
tetlh - n - roll; scroll; list
tetlh - v - roll [as a log rolls down a hill]
tev - n - prize
tey - v - scrape
tey - v - be uncomfortable, be close [for the sense of being close or not having wiggle room or leeway (If you were victorious, but just barely made it at the last minute or something like that, you could say tey yay.)]
teybe` - v - be comfortable, be easy [for the sense of being not close or having wiggle room or leeway (e.g. a comfortable distance away [from something] or a comfortable victory)]
teywI` - n - file
teywI` `echlet - n - chalkboard or whiteboard or any similar surface that can be erased and reused
tey` - n - cousin [father's brother's child or mother's sister's child];
tey` - v - confide
tey`be` - n - female cousin [father's brother's daughter or mother's sister's
tey`loD - n - male cousin [father's brother's son or mother's sister's son];
tI - n - vegetation
tIb - v - be nervous; be uneasy
tIch - v - insult
tIgh - n - custom
tIH - n - ray; beam
tIH - n - shaft [of spear]; the plural tIHmey means railroad tracks.
tIH javmaH - n - X-ray
tIH wej - n - gamma ray
tIj - v - board; go aboard
tIjwI` - n - boarder
tIjwI`ghom - n - boarding party
tIl - v - salivate
tIlqemchaw` - n - thingamajig, whatchamacallit
tIn - v - be big
tIng - n - area southwestward; area towards the southwest
tIngDagh - n - type of stringed instrument (like a cello)
tIpqan - n - ash, ashes [Inherently plural]
tIq - n - heart
tIq - v - be long; be lengthy [of an object; used for long hair]
tIq Hom - n - dim sum
tIqnagh - n - type of animal; ~tknag~
tIqnagh lemDu` - n - type of food; ~tknag~ hooves; [always referred to in plural]
tIQ - v - be ancient
tIr - n - grain
tIr - v - be arranged in a stack, be superimposed ["Superimpose A and B" is A B je tIrmoHchu`. One way to say "superimpose A on(to) B" is B-Daq A lanchu`. ]
tIr ngat - n - bread crumbs
tIr ngogh - n - bread
tIr ngogh QaD - n - toast
tIr ngogh vutwI` - n - baker (Most common is vutwI` preceded, if need be, by tIr ngogh or chab or whatever, but ngeSmoHwI` is possible.)
tIrI`nIDaD tabey`gho je - n - Trinidad and Tobago
tIro`ma Hol - n - Traumae [conlang]
tIS - v - be light [weight]
tIv - v - enjoy
tIw - v - react emotionally, behave emotionally
tIy - v - be curly
tI` - v - fix; repair
tI`qa` vIghro` - n - type of animal; ~tika~ cat
tI`rIl - n - Trill (planet)
tI`rIlngan - n - Trill (people)
tI`wI` - n - repairer; repairman
tI`yap - n - magnesium
tob - v - test conclusively; prove
toba`qo - n - tobacco
toch - n - palm [of hand] toch yo clap
toch - v - be actual, concrete, practical, pragmatic, applied ("applied" here as in applied physics)
toch baQpel - n - variant of baQpel with underhand grip, palms face exerciser
toch choQpel - n - pull-up (underhand grip, palms face exerciser)
tochmu` - n - bribe / normally used with the verb chup (recommend, suggest) and sometimes with much (present)
toD - n - rescue
toD - v - save; rescue
toDDuj - n - rescue ship
toDSaH - excl - [epithet]
toDuj - n - courage; bravery; mettle
togh - v - count
togho - n - Togo
toH - excl - so; well
tol - v - go through, pass through, pass among [This is for passing through a crowd, or other group of objects.]
toj - v - deceive; trick; bluff
tom - v - tilt
tomat naH - n - tomato
tomter - n - funnel
tonSaw` - n - fighting technique [used to name martial arts poses or stances; much is used for striking a pose, and takes the named stance as the object (tonSaw' may be dropped from the name if it's clear)]
tongDuj - n - freighter
toplIn - n - topaline
toppa` - n - type of animal; ~topah~
toq - v - be inhabited
toqpISIn Hol - n - Tok Pisin
toqvIr lung - n - type of animal; Tokvirian skink
toqwIn - n - (rubber) stamp
toQ - n - type of bird [bird of prey]
toQDuj - n - Bird of Prey [vessel]
tor - v - be pitching; be tilting [aircraft tilts nose up or down]
tor - v - kneel
toranto - n' - Toronto
torSIv - n - fiction
toS - v - climb
toSwI' qal'aq - n - climbing apparatus, jungle gym
totlh - n - commodore
tova`Daq - n - mind sharing
toy` - v - serve [a master]
toyDal - n - tactic (singular)
toy`wI` - n - servant
toy`wI``a` - n - slave
to` - n - tactics
to`baj - n - type of animal; ~tobbaj~
to`nga - n - Tonga
to`qIpo`na Hol - n - Toki Pona
to`qIypo`na Hol - n - Toki Pona
to`waQ - n - ligament; tendon to`waQ yIv take some time to consider a matter
tu - v - blink (does not take an object; you say "my eyes blink")
tuch - n - the future (as a whole)
tuch - v - forbid
tuch rIt - v - prophesy, see the future, know the future [For Klingons, the "prophet" is able to "summon" the future somehow. ]
tuch rItwI` - n - prophet [Not the religious person like Jesus or Mohammed, but more some kind of a person who seems to be able to see or know things that others can't.]
tuD - v - thunder
tugh - adv - soon
tugh - excl - hurry up!
tuH - n - maneuver [military term]
tuH - v - be ashamed
tuHmoH - v - shame
tuj - n - heat
tuj - v - be hot
tuj muvwI` - n - thermo-suture
tuj `otlh - n - infrared, infrared radiation
tul - v - hope
tum - n - agency
tun - v - be soft
tung - v - discourage
tungHa` - v - encourage
tungyen - n - concrete
tungyen Say`qIS - n - cement
tup - n - minute [of time]
tup - v - be conceptual, abstract, pure ("pure" here as in pure physics as opposed to applied physics)
tuq - n - tribe; house; ancestral unit
tuq Degh - n - family crest
tuqjIjQa` - n - United Kingdom; UK
tuqnIgh - n - member of a house
tuqvol - n - forehead [regional]
tuQ - v - wear [clothes]
tuQDoq - n - mind sifter [Klingon psychic probe]
tuQHa`moH - v - undress; take off [clothes]
tuQmoH - v - dress; put on [clothes]
tur - v - carry out, conduct (a mission), perform (duties)
turIqya` - n - Turkey
turmIq - n - urine
turmIq `enDeq - n - urinary bladder [Strictly, the noun `enDeq refers to anatomy, but it can be used metaphorically in other contexts, which is the way it works in English.]
turwI` - n - server (computer) [if clarity is needed, say De`wI` turwI` "computer server"; in context, turwI` alone is enough]
tuS - v - cough
tut - n - column
tut Duj - n - lift, elevator ["column vehicle"; this is the cab, not the whole system]
tutren - n - inside of limb
tutlh - v - be tattooed, have a tattoo
tutlh - v - be official [this is slang for "official"; when asked Maltz said nothing about "canon"]
tutlhmoH - v - tattoo
tuv - v - be patient
tuva`lu - n - Tuvalu
tuy` - v - spit out [liquids]
tu` - v - discover; find; observe; notice
tu`HomI`raH - n - something useless; useless thing; burden
tu`lIp - n - tulip
tu`lum - n - teacup [older or upper-class word]
tu`lu` - v - someone/something finds it; there is
tu`mI` - n - sock [one of a paSlogh chang'eng]
tu`nIS - n - Tunisia
tu`qom - n - shape, form, appearance, configuration tlhaj negh; chen tu'qom. The soldiers march in formation.

tlh

tlhab - n - freedom; independence
tlhab - v - be free; be independent
tlhach - n - faction; sect
tlhach mu`mey - n - argot; jargon
tlhagh - n - fat; animal fat
tlhaghnay - n - Throgni [a type of plant]
tlhagh patat `oQqar naQHommey - n - french fries
tlhaj - v - process, parade, march [See also boghoy procession/parade/march.]
tlham - n - gravity; slang for order, structure [societal]
tlham - v - slide
tlham rI`gheS - n - parachute
tlhamchem - n - gravitational field
tlhamI` - n - geode
tlhan - v - dig [the object is dirt or soil or a field or a road, for example, not "hole"]
tlhap - v - take
tlhapqa` - n - retrieve
tlhapragh - n - monster
tlhaptIH - n - tractor beam
tlhaq - n - chronometer; clock
tlhaQ - v - be funny
tlhar - v - be allergic, be allergic to
tlhargh - v - explore, scout, survey
tlharghDuj - n - scout [vessel]
tlharwIl - n - link (in a chain)
tlharwIl Duj - n - railroad car [part of a train]
tlhaS - v - fight; battle [relatively minor fight]
tlhat - n - grid
tlhatlh - n - type of food; ~gladst~
tlhavqop - n - punctuation [A slang expression is ghewmey. tlhavqop is inherently plural.]
tlhavqop ngutlh - n - punctuation mark
tlhaw - v - be inflamed
tlhawjoq - n - mantle (geology)
tlhaw` - v - hit [percussion instrument] with fist
tlhay - n - Klingon ~tlh~ sound
tlhay - n - sleeve
tlhay - v - embalm; refers to infusing a dead body with some sort of fluid to preserve it (and thereby create a jItuj'ep mummy)
tlhay` - v - be tame, domesticated
tlhay`qeq - n - domestication
tlha` - v - chase; follow
tlheb - v - urge; advocate; endorse qagh vISop net tlheb I should eat gagh. qagh DaSop 'e' vItlheb You should eat gagh (in my opinion). qagh vISop 'e' vItlheb I should eat gagh. (I know it's the right thing for me to do)
tlheD - v - depart [implies setting out on a journey, having a goal or destination in mind]
tlhegh - n - line; rope
tlhegh jIrmoHwI` - n - windlass
tlheH - n - spell (magical) [One can say either tlheH reS or just reS alone for he/she casts a spell.]
tlhej - v - accompany; be with
tlhemqaDID - n - bumpkin, yokel
tlhen - v - sound as, produce the sound of, make a(n) ____ing sound
tlheng`IQ - n - thranx [a plant described in the novel Kahless by Michael Jan Friedman]
tlhep - v - hang (intransitive), be suspended, be dangling; be straight (of hair)
tlhepwI` - n - uvula (informal term)
tlhepQe` - n - saliva
tlher - v - be lumpy
tlher`aq - n - reef
tlhetlh - v - progress
tlhevjaQ - n - spear thrown with aid of a special tool
tlhey`at - n - spacetime
tlhe` - v - turn (intransitive)
tlhIb - v - be incompetent; be unskilled
tlhIch - n - smoke
tlhIch pur - v - smoke
tlhIghaq - n - trigak, a forest animal, predatory animal with sharp teeth
tlhIH - pro - you [plural]
tlhIj - v - apologize
tlhIl - n - mineral
tlhIl - v - mine
tlhIlHal - n - mine
tlhIlwI` - n - miner
tlhIm - n - carpet; rug; wall hanging; blanket
tlhImqaH - n - type of food; ~zilm'kach~
tlhIn - v - be particular, individual [Note that "individual" in this definition does not mean simply "single, separate" but rather something like "be attributable to something or someone" or "be uniquely associated with something or someone."]
tlhInja - n - Klin Zha, a well known Klingon game
tlhIng yoS - n - Kling district
tlhIngan - n - Klingon
tlhIngan Hubbeq - n - Klingon Defense Force
tlhIngan wo` - n - Klingon Empire
tlhIngan yejquv - n - Klingon High Council
tlhIngan `IH qaD - n - Klingon beauty contest
tlhIq - n - stew
tlhIS - v - spit out [solid thing]
tlhIv - v - be insubordinate
tlhob - v - ask; request; plead
tlhoch - v - contradict; do something out of defiance
tlhoD - v - be somewhat obscured, filtered, smudged, fuzzy
tlhogh - n - marriage
tlhogh - v - marry [archaic term becoming more common]
tlhoj - v - realize
tlhol - v - be raw; be unprocessed
tlhom - n - dusk
tlhombuS - n - type of food
tlhom chum - n - sunset
tlhon - n - nostril
tlhonghaD - n - klongat, an animal which attacks with surprise and gives its prey no chance to defend
tlhong - v - barter; bargain
tlhop - n - front; area in front of; public area
tlhoqtlhal - n - favor (This is generally the object of a verb like tur. The recipient of the favor is marked with -vaD.)
tlhoQ - n - conglomeration
tlhorgh - v - be pungent [referring to food]
tlhorghHa` - v - be bland [referring to food]
tlhoS - adv - almost; nearly; virtually; not quite; used with a negative verb, means "barely"
tlhot - v - land [on water; like a bird]
tlhov - v - wheeze
tlhoy - adv - overly; to an excessive degree; too much
tlhoy` - n - wall; interior wall; interior face of exterior wall; territorial wall
tlhoy` SaS - n - ceiling/floor between stories
tlho` - n - appreciation; gratitude
tlho` - v - thank qatlho` thank you (to one person) Satlho` thank you (to multiple people)
tlho` Huch - n - tip (at restaurant, hairdresser's, etc.)
tlho`ren - n - [unit of volume]
tlhub - n - climax [Height of action in a narrative (not orgasm)]
tlhuch - v - exhaust
tlhuD - v - emit [energy; radiation; etc.]
tlhuH - n - breath
tlhuH - v - be exhilarated; be stimulated; be invigorated [slang]
tlhuH - v - breathe
tlhuHtuch - n - armadillo-like animal
tlhum - v - be constrained, be bound
tlhup - v - whisper
tlhuQ - n - tail
tlhur - v - catch [Grab in midair, like catching a baseball]
tlhut - v - be stuffed
tlhutmoH - v - stuff [use tlhutmoH when filling something to achieve a shape or look (e.g. a teddy bear or a dead animal skin); use ghoD when putting something into a container (e.g. a suitcase or something to eat)]
tlhutlh - v - drink
tlhu` - v - be tempted
tlhu`moH - v - tempt
tlhu`roD - n - martyr [This refers to a person who not only died (or was killed) for a belief/cause, but who has become a symbol or emblem or rallying point of or for that belief/cause]

u

v

va - excl - [general invective]
vabDot - adv - even; also; additionally
vaD - v - be flexible
vagh - n - fifth tone of nonatonic musical scale
vagh - num - five
vagh reD mey` - n - pentagon
vagh reD `Impey` - n - pyramid with five-sided base
vaghbIp - num - five hundred thousand
vaghbIpDIch - num - five hundred thousandth
vaghbIp`uy` - num - five hundred billion
vaghbIp`uy`DIch - num - five hundred billionth
vaghDIch - num - fifth
vaghmaH - num - fifty
vaghmaHDIch - num - fiftieth
vaghmaHSaghan - num - fifty billion
vaghmaHSaghanDIch - num - fifty billionth
vaghmaH`uy` - num - fifty million
vaghmaH`uy`DIch - num - fifty millionth
vaghnetlh - num - fifty thousand
vaghnetlhDIch - num - fifty thousandth
vaghnetlh`uy` - num - fifty billion
vaghnetlh`uy`DIch - num - fifty billionth
vaghSaD - num - five thousand
vaghSaDbIp - num - five thousand million
vaghSaDbIpDIch - num - five thousand millionth
vaghSaDDIch - num - five thousandth
vaghSaDSaghan - num - five trillion
vaghSaDSaghanDIch - num - five trillionth
vaghSaghan - num - five billion
vaghSaghanDIch - num - five billionth
vaghSanID - num - five thousand
vaghSanIDbIp - num - five thousand million
vaghSanIDbIpDIch - num - five thousand millionth
vaghSanIDDIch - num - five thousandth
vaghSanIDSaghan - num - five trillion
vaghSanIDSaghanDIch - num - five trillionth
vaghvatlh - num - five hundred
vaghvatlhbIp - num - fifty million
vaghvatlhbIpDIch - num - fifty millionth
vaghvatlhDIch - num - five hundredth
vaghvatlhSaghan - num - five hundred billion
vaghvatlhSaghanDIch - num - five hundred billionth
vaghvatlh`uy` - num - five hundred million
vaghvatlh`uyDIch - num - five hundred millionth
vagh`uy` - num - five million
vagh`uy`DIch - num - five millionth
vaH - n - holster; sheath; knife case
vaHbo` - n - lava
vaj - adv - so; then; thus; in that case
vaj - n - warrior [as a concept]
val - v - be clever; be smart; be intelligent
valqe` - n - bat-like animal
valQav - n - iris (part of the eye)
valtIn - n - proton
van - n - salute; tribute
van - v - end [an event; e.g. a voyage; battle; song]
van - v - salute
van bom - n - anthem; hymn
van Hew - n - monument, memorial (sculpture)
van qach - n - monument, memorial (building)
vanI`la` - n - vanilla
vanI`la` naH - n - vanilla (fruit/pod)
vanI`la` San'emDer - n - vanilla (plant)
vanI`la` wejwa` - n - vanilla (flavor)
vanuwa`tu - n - Vanuatu
van`a` - n - award
vang - v - act; take action
vaq - v - mock
vaq`aj cha` - n - Vaq'aj II
vaQ - v - be aggressive; be effective; be vigorous
var - v - be stingy, miserly
vargh - v - ???
varghwI` - n - Changeling/Founder (Leader of the Dominion)
varHa` - v - be generous
varqo`eng - n - polynomial expression
vaS - v - be wide, broad [referring to side-to-side distance, not things like a "broad topic" or "wide range of opinion" or "eyes wide open"]
vaS - n - hall; assembly hall
vaS`a` - n - Great Hall
vatIqan veng - n - Vatican City
vatwam - n - spout
vatlh - num - hundred [number-forming element]
vatlh - v - coil
vatlh DIS poH - n - century
vatlhmoH - n - roll up [like a scroll]
vatlhvI` - n - percent
vav - n - father
vavnI` - n - grandfather
vavoy - n - Dad, Daddy
vaw - v - be ambitious, determined, motivated [not like an ambitious task]
vay - n - Klingon ~v~ sound
vay - v - fight; battle [midlevel ferocity]
vayya` - n - isosceles triangle
vay` - n - somebody; someone; something; anybody; anyone; anything
va`chum - n - sponge (for cleaning)
va`nuch - n - heel
veb - v - be next [in a series; sequence]
vech - v - cross [as in a bridge crossing a river, etc.]
veD - n - fur
veDDIr - n - pelt [skin with fur still attached]
vegh - v - go through [an open door; a tunnel; etc.]
veH - n - boundary
veH tIn - n - Great Barrier
vel - v - cover; coat; mask
velqa` - n - replica; copy
velSo` -- n - chromium
velSo` `uSqan - n - stainless steel
velwI` - n - coverer; coater; masker
vem - v - wake up; cease sleeping
vem - n - print, mark, tracks, image or pattern left in the dirt from stepping on it
vemmoH - v - wake [someone] up; light [a fire]
vem`eq - n - type of bird [feeds almost exclusively on the serpent worm from which qagh is made]
ven - v - be nerdy [This describes someone who is "into" a subject, a true devotee, a serious participant in related activities.]
veneSwe`la` - n - Venezuela
venwI` - n - nerd
veng - n - city
veng wa`DIch - n - First City [capital of Kronos]
veng wa`DIch Sep - n - First City region
vengHom - n - village
vep - n - proclamation, notification, announcement
veqlargh - n - devil; demon; ~Fek'lhr~
veqtal - n - VeK'tal; The VeK'tal response is a measure of Klingon physiological condition
veQ - n - garbage
veQDuj - n - garbage scow
ver - v - be dizzy; be spiral
veragh - n - rivet
verengan - n - Ferengi
verengan Ha`DIbaH - n - Ferengi dog
vergh - n - dock, port, seaport, airport, spaceport [with a structure to attach to, like a pier; expanded meaning]
vergh - v - dock; park
veS - n - war; warfare [as a concept]
veSDuj - n - warship
veStay - n - vestai (honorific, grade 2)
vetlh - n - cockroach
vev - v - insert, put in
vev - v - pin, attach or fasten with a pin
vey - n - set; pack; package
vey` - v - be comfortable, be plentiful [for the sense of free from hardship or more than adequate, like a comfortable income]
vey`Ha` - v - be uncomfortable, be meager [for the sense of being inadequate or barely adequate or meager]
ve` - v - travel with a purpose, for a specific reason, travel on a mission
ve`Ha` - v - travel aimlessly; be wavy (of hair)
vIb - v - move through time toward the future, propagate
vIbHa` - v - move through time toward the past
vID - v - be belligerent
vID`Ir - n - baffle
vIghro` - n - type of animal; ~v'gro~ [like a cat]
vIghro``a` - n - large catlike animal
vIH - v - move; be in motion
vIj - n - thruster
vIl - n - ridge; bump
vIl - v - be ridgy; slang for be cool, as in chic
vIl - n - hanger-on
vIlaDelvIya - n - Philadelphia
vIlaStIn - n - Palestine
vIlHom - n - forehead ridge
vIlInHoD - n - type of bird [capable of mimicking speech]
vIlle` - n - follower, disciple, fan, admirer, minion
vIn - n - cousin; niece; nephew
vIncha` - n - furnace
vInDa` - n - compatriot, community member, cohort, fellow citizen
vIno`va` qurgh - n - finova beans
vIng - v - whine
vIq - n - battle; combat [as a concept]
vIqraq - n - artifact, work of art [More general than a visual piece of art. It covers that, but also an artifact (not in the archaeological sense), handicraft, gizmo, gadget, contraption, machine, device, etc. ? that is, something manufactured/made.]; product
vIQ - v - suffocate [does not take an object]
vIQmoH - v - smother [for "drown" precede the verb with bIQDaq or the like]
vIraS - n - France
vIraS Hol - n - French
vIrveq - n - terrorism
vIrgh - v - rip, rip up, slash, tear, tear up, gash
vIt - n - truth
vIt - v - tell the truth
vItHay` - n - the truth test
vIttlhegh - n - proverb
vItlh - v - be high, great (in quantity, size, intensity)
vIychorgh - n - juice; sap of a plant
vIyetnam - n - Vietnam
vI` - n - decimal point; point (geometry)
vI` - n - sharpshooting; marksmanship
vI` - v - accumulate
vI`ba`om - n - masterpiece (This noun may refer to anything considered the best work or accomplishment of somebody)
vI`chI - n - Fiji
vI`Hop - n - indirect object
vI`Ir - n - tide
vI`laS - n - fog, mist
vI`laywar - n - window screen (The soft, flexible mesh put in frames (for windows or doors) to keep out mosquitoes and such)
voD - v - drill, bore
voD jan - n - drill [short form; this is the whole device, not the drill bit]
voDchuch - n - type of animal; like a largish spider [It has nine legs usually but sometimes seven or eight, never fewer than seven unless the bug has been injured. A big spider on Earth would be a tera` voDchuch, but a small spider would not be a voDchuch.]
voDchuchHom - n - (smaller species of) spider
voDleH - n - emperor
voDmeH jan - n - drill [this is the whole device, not the drill bit]
vogh - n - somewhere
voHDajbo` - n - ransom; mortgage
vol - n - pane, panel, sheet (not for bed)
volapuq Hol - n - Volapük
volchaH - n - shoulder
von - v - trap; entrap
vonlu` - v - fail utterly [slang]
vong - v - hypnotize
voq - v - trust; have faith in
voqHa` - v - distrust
voQ - v - choke
voQSIp - n - nitrogen
vor - v - cure
vorgh - v - be previous
voSpegh Sep - n - Vospeg region
votlh - v - be narcissistic
vov - v - grapple, wrestle, tussle (For "tackle," combine with pummoH "cause to fall (down)"; vov is primarily used only physical; of course one can use almost any word metaphorically, but it depends on context and cannot be generally answered. Okrand was not sure if you can "grapple" a person's arm.)
voveng - n - gland
voy - v - clone (The object of the verb is the original, not the clone)
vo` - v - propel; throw; thrust; cause to move (typically forward)
vo`nung - n - phase [This is the "fraction of a wave cycle." It is not used for phases of the moon or phases of life, etc.]
vub - n - hostage
vuD - n - opinion
vuHbIn - n - lymph
vuj - v - expel, eject
vul - v - be unconscious
vulchoH - v - faint
vulqangan - n - Vulcan [person]
vulqan - n - Vulcan [planet]
vum - v - work; toil
vum - n - contemptible or despicable person, scumbag, bastard
vun - v - order (in a restaurant, from a catalog, etc.)
vung - v - cyclone, hurricane
vup - v - pity
vuQ - v - fascinate
vur - v - be modern, up-to-date, state-of-the-art
vuS - v - limit
vut - v - cook; prepare; make; fix; assemble; bake [food and beverages]
vutmeH `un - n - flat-bottomed pot for food preparation [regional]
vutpa` - n - galley
vutwI` - n - cook; chef
vut`un - n - flat-bottomed pot for food preparation [regional]
vuv - v - respect
vuy - v - be helpful, supportive; support
vu` - v - manage
vu`wI` - n - manager

w

wab - n - sound; noise
wab choHwI` - n - synthesizer
wab HevwI` - n - radio
wab labwI` - n - radio transmitter
wab naQ - n - vowel [This refers to sounds, not letters or glyphs]
wab poD - n - consonant [This refers to sounds, not letters or glyphs]
wab qoSta` `aplo` - n - cassette; audio tape
wabDo - n - Mach [As a spelling convention, wab Do speed of sound is written as two words. When used as a measurement term ("Mach"), it's written as one word (wabDo). The pronunciation (and, for that matter, meaning) is the same.]
waDwach - n - scarf (wrapped around the head,, not the neck)
wagh - v - be expensive
waH - v - try out; test; use experimentally; taste; try out [food]
wal - v - vibrate, be in a state of vibration [move in a fast repetitive way, like a guitar string]
wam - v - hunt; fish, be fishing; wamtaH (slang) be randy, be horny
wam - n - type of Klingon snake, hiding in the grass to attack animals
wamwI` - n - hunter
wan - v - be straight
wanHa` - v - be bent; be crooked
wanHa`moH - v - raise (one's eyebrows)
wanI` - n - phenomenon; event; occurrence; experience; effect [e.g. Herghqoq wanI' placebo effect]
wang - v - wxnk (voluntary)
waq - n - shoe
waqboch - n - type of bird [with a very long beak]
waQ - n - months from now
waQ - v - obstruct
war - n - column (in a table or spreadsheet)
warjun - n - type of knife [used for food preparation]
waS - v - be wrong, awry
wa'SIngtanDIySIy - n - Washington, DC [in normal, day-to-day Klingon conversation, the DIySIy is never left off]
watrIn - n - lubricant (general)
watlh - v - be pure
wav - v - divide
wavre` - n - pulsar (Klingon astronomers sometimes refer to this as a barwI')
waw` - n - base [military term]
way - n - Klingon ~w~ sound
way - v - be striped
way` - v - parry; deflect a lunge
way`ar - n - chaos
wa` - num - one
wa` rutlh qam Do Duj - n - unicycle
wa`bIp - num - one hundred thousand
wa`bIpDIch - num - one hundred thousandth
wa`bIp`uy` - num - one hundred billion
wa`bIp`uy`DIch - num - one hundred billionth
wa`chaw - n - spreadsheet, table
wa`DIch - num - first; beginning; start; original
wa`Hu` - n - yesterday
wa`lay - n - mass [Concept in physics (distinct from "weight")
wa`leS - n - tomorrow
wa`logh - adv - once
wa`maH - num - ten
wa`maHDIch - num - tenth
wa`maHSaghan - num - ten billion
wa`maHSaghanDIch - num - ten billionth
wa`maH`uy` - num - ten million
wa`maH`uy`DIch - num - ten millionth
wa`maH cha` - num - twelve
wa`maH cha`DIch - num - twelfth
wa`maH cha` reD mey` - n - dodecagon
wa`maH chorgh - num - eighteen
wa`maH chorghDIch - num - eighteenth
wa`maH Hut - num - nineteen
wa`maH HutDIch - num - nineteenth
wa`maH jav - num - sixteen
wa`maH javDIch - num - sixteenth
wa`maH loS - num - fourteen
wa`maH loSDIch - num - fourteenth
wa`maH reD mey` - n - decagon
wa`maH Soch - num - seventeen
wa`maH SochDIch - num - seventeenth
wa`maH vagh - num - fifteen
wa`maH vaghDIch - num - fifteenth
wa`maH wa` - num - eleven
wa`maH wa`DIch - num - eleventh
wa`maH wa` reD mey` - n - hendecagon
wa`maH wej - num - thirteen
wa`maH wejDIch - num - thirteenth
wa`netlh - num - ten thousand
wa`netlhDIch - num - ten thousandth
wa`netlh`uy` - num - ten billion
wa`netlh`uy`DIch - num - ten billionth
wa`ngoQ - n - manganese
wa`SaD - num - one thousand
wa`SaDbIp - num - one thousand million
wa`SaDbIpDIch - num - one thousand millionth
wa`SaDDIch - num - one thousandth
wa`SaDSaghan - num - one trillion
wa`SaDSaghanDIch - num - one trillionth
wa`Saghan - num - one billion
wa`SaghanDIch - num - one billionth
wa`SanID - num - one thousand
wa`SanIDbIp - num - one thousand million
wa`SanIDbIpDIch - num - one thousand millionth
wa`SanIDDIch - num - one thousandth
wa`SanIDSaghan - num - one trillion
wa`SanIDSaghanDIch - num - one trillionth
wa`vatlh - num - one hundred
wa`vatlhbIp - num - ten million
wa`vatlhbIpDIch - num - ten millionth
wa`vatlhDIch - num - one hundredth
wa`vatlhSaghan - num - one hundred billion
wa`vatlhSaghanDIch - num - one hundred billionth
wa`vatlh`uy` - num - one hundred million
wa`vatlh`uyDIch - num - one hundred millionth
wa``uy` - num - one million
wa``uy`DIch - num - one millionth
web - v - be disgraced; be chaotic, disorganized [slang]
wech - v - serve fermented food at its peak
wegh - v - confine
weH - v - raid
wej - adv - not yet
wej - num - three
wej Sonme` group of three, party of three, trio, triplet
wejbe` - n - nitrate
wejbIp - num - three hundred thousand
wejbIpDIch - num - three hundred thousandth
wejbIp`uy` - num - three hundred billion
wejbIp`uy`DIch - num - three hundred billionth
wejDIch - num - third
wejHa` - adv - already, means something along the lines of "before now" or "as of now"
wejlogh - adv - thrice
wejmaH - num - thirty
wejmaHDIch - num - thirtieth
wejmaHSaghan - num - thirty billion
wejmaHSaghanDIch - num - thirty billionth
wejmaH`uy` - num - thirty million
wejmaH`uy`DIch - num - thirty millionth
wejnetlh - num - thirty thousand
wejnetlhDIch - num - thirty thousandth
wejnetlh`uy` - num - thirty billion
wejnetlh`uy`DIch - num - thirty billionth
wejpuH - excl - charming [used only ironically]
wejSaD - num - three thousand
wejSaDbIp - num - three thousand million
wejSaDbIpDIch - num - three thousand millionth
wejSaDDIch - num - three thousandth
wejSaDSaghan - num - three trillion
wejSaDSaghanDIch - num - three trillionth
wejSaghan - num - three billion
wejSaghanDIch - num - three billionth
wejSanID - num - three thousand
wejSanIDbIp - num - three thousand million
wejSanIDbIpDIch - num - three thousand millionth
wejSanIDDIch - num - three thousandth
wejSanIDSaghan - num - three trillion
wejSanIDSaghanDIch - num - three trillionth
wejvatlh - num - three hundred
wejvatlhbIp - num - thirty million
wejvatlhbIpDIch - num - thirty millionth
wejvatlhDIch - num - three hundredth
wejvatlhSaghan - num - three hundred billion
wejvatlhSaghanDIch - num - three hundred billionth
wejvatlh`uy` - num - three hundred million
wejvatlh`uyDIch - num - three hundred millionth
wejwa` - n - flavor; taste
wej`uy` - num - three million
wej`uy`DIch - num - three millionth
wel - v - owe [someone]
welwelwel - excl - sound made by a stereotypic targh [The number of times this syllable is repeated is variable. This is an imitative word and there are variations. And not everyone uses it in the first place.]
wem - n - violation
wem - v - violate
wen - n - months ago
wep - n - jacket; coat
wep - n - shirt with sleeves [regional]
wep buq - n - jacket pouch; coat pocket
weq - v - hit [percussion instrument] with palm
weQ - n - candle
weQmoQnaQ - n - world wide web
wer - v - be creased, be wrinkled
wermoH - v - crease, wrinkle
weS - v - lose, no longer have, suffer a reduction of
weSjech - n - fabric, cloth, textile [This can be used for textiles or fabric in clothing, sheets, towels, and so on, but generally not for carpets or rugs (except for thin ones).]
weSjech ba`Suq Duj - n - hot air balloon
wev - n - row (in a table or spreadsheet)
wev - v - draw, make a drawing of; sketch; doodle
wevpev - n - wheat
wevpev wornagh - n - wheat beer[a German type of beer, like Weizenbier, Weißbier]
wevpev HIq - n - [not translated: It "would be okay" to use that phrase to refer to any wheat-based liquor, but doesn't mean it's the only name for it. Otherwise "wheat liquor" would also work.]
wew - v - glow
wey - n - company [military unit]
we`lIS - n - Wales
wIb - v - be sour; be bitter; be tart
wIch - n - myth
wID - v - massacre (connotes indiscriminate killing)
wIgh - n - genius
wIH - v - be ruthless
wIj - v - farm
wIjwI` - n - farmer
wIjwI` jan - n - plough
wIjwI` ngeb - n - scarecrow
wIl - n - be short (in length; used of a stick, etc.)
wIl - n - spike
wIlHay - n - spine (of a book); hinge (of a door)
wIlle` - n - joint [body part]
wIllul - n - a game somewhat similar to bowling
wIlpuq - n - pudding
wItte` - n - mathematical equation
wIv - n - choice
wIv - v - choose; select
wItlh - v - break [something] off
wIy - n - tactical display [on monitor]; schematic; graphic representation
wIyqap - n - row or line (of people or things not expected to be in motion)
wI'qIy - n - wiki
wI`qIypI`DIya - n - Wikipedia
wob - v - hurl a spear by means of a ~chetvi~
woch - v - be tall
woD - v - throw away; discard
woD - v - hollow
wogh - v - transgress; do more than acceptable; go to far
woH - v - pick up
woj - n - radiation
woj - v - sterilize
woj choHwI` - n - reactor
wol - v - be creased, be folded
wolmoH - v - crease, fold
wom - v - peck
wonmugh - n - alley
wontoy - n - ideal
woq - v - confirm, substantiate, corroborate
woQ - n - authority; political power
wornagh - n - ~warnog~; Klingon ale
woS - n - chin
woSwa` - n - armadillo-like animal
woSwa` ghew - n - rolling bug (like a pillbug/sowbug/roly-poly)
wot - n - verb
wot chuS - n - non-stative verb
wot nungwI` - n - preverb
wot tam - n - stative verb
wov - v - be light; be bright
wovbe` - v - be dim
wovHa` - v - be dim
wovmoHwI` - n - light [for illumination]
wovmoHwI` moQ - n - light bulb
wov`on - n - memory [" . . . specific memories or recollections"]
wo` - n - empire
wo` tay` - n - United Kingdom; UK
wuD - v - snore
wuH - v - skim, glide, skate, skid
wun - v - be unprotected; be vulnerable
wup - v - burst into song
wuq - v - decide [upon]
wuqwI` - n - juror
wuqwI` ghom - n - jury
wuQ - v - have a headache
wuS - n - lip; slang term for spout with one "lip" wuSDu` slang term for spout with two "lips"
wuS rItlh naQ - n - lipstick
wutlh - n - underground
wutlh pa` - n - dungeon
wuv - v - depend on; rely on
wuvchuq - v - be entangled (quantum physics, but maybe more general)
wu` - n - be mystical, be esoteric, be occult
wu`DIy - n - animal like a beaver
wu`tIbIs - n - superstition

y

ya - n - tactical officer
yab - n - mind; brain
yab qoD - n - subconscious mind
yach - v - pet; stroke
yach - v - strum [a stringed instrument]
yachchuq - v - cuddle
yachchuqmeH wutlh pa` - n - cuddle dungeon
yaD - n - sword [slang]
yaD - n - toe
yaD - n - teen, teenager, adolescent, youth, young adult (slang)
yagh - n - organism
yaH - n - duty station; station [Any place specifically designated for the performance of a task (or tasks) is a yaH. A stage is the yaH for the performance of plays or, perhaps, music. A football field is the yaH for a football game. A laboratory is a scientist's yaH. And, of course, on a ship, a yaH is a duty station. If context isn't enough to clarify what sort of yaH it is, you can say things like much yaH, QoQ yaH, tamlerQeD yaH, etc.]
yaH - v - be taken away
yaj - v - understand
yajHa` - v - misinterpret
yalwoD - n - momentum
yam - v - be assimilated, incorporated, subsumed
yamqeq - n - assimilation
yamtaw - n - line
yamtaw job - n - jagged line, zigzagging line
yan - n - sword; bow (for ngItHel) [slang]
yan - v - wield; use; manipulate [a sword]
yan `ISletlh - n - Yan-Isleth; Svärdets brödraskap
yanwI` - n - swordfighter
yanwo` - n - nest
yang - n - image from a (rubber) stamp
yap - v - be enough; be sufficient
yaS - n - officer; member (of an official body); professional [slang]
yaS cha`DIch - n - second officer [on a ship]
yaS wa`DIch - n - first officer [on a ship]
yatqap - n - type of bird [gray; sometimes white; travel long distances without
yatlh - v - be pregnant
yav - n - ground
yay - n - Klingon ~y~ sound
yay - n - victory; triumph
yay mIr - n - winning streak [common way to say it]
yayal - n - nickel (element)
yay` - v - be shocked; be dumbfounded
ya`rIS - n - echo [for the verb, see "rebound" 'et]
yeb - n - wrist [also slang term of deprecation]
yegh - v -- be spotted
yej - n - assembly; council
yejHaD - n - institute; institution
yejquv - n - High Council
yejquv qu`vIgh - n - Member of the High Council
yej`an - n - society [e.g.; scholarly society]; organization; association; guild
yelmo` - n - membrane
yelneHSIQ - n - vanadium
yelvew - n - texture
yem - v - sin
yep - v - be careful
yepHa` - v - be careless
yeq - v - cooperate
yer - n - domain; holdings; territory
yergh - n - geometric solid
yergho - n - city wall
yeru`Sala`yIm - n - Jerusalem
yer chaw` - n - title deed; patent
yer ghajwI` chaw` - n - title deed; patent
yetmoS - n - gravel (naghHom(mey) is also heard, primarily when focusing on individual stones, but for the stuff spread on the ground or used in making concrete, for example, yetmoS is more common)
yev - v - pause
yIb - n - vent
yIH - n - tribble
yIn - n - life
yIn - v - live
yInbogh lom - n - zombie
yInroH - n - life signs
yInSIp - n - oxygen
yIntagh - excl - [epithet]
yIntagh - n - life-support system
yIn `eSqa` - n - environmental suit
yIQ - v - be wet
yIr - v - gather
yIrIDngan - n - Yiridian [person]
yIr`ach - n - close friend (gender neutral)
yISra`el - n - Israel
yIt - v - walk
yItQet - n - petroleum, crude oil
yItram - n - whistle (with a clear sound)
yItlh - v - be strict, severe, firm, stern, authoritarian
yItlhHa` - v - be indulgent
yIv - v - annoy; bother; irk; irritate [slang]
yIv - v - chew ; to`waQ yIv to ruminate (mentally)
yIvbeH - n - tunic; shirt; sleeveless shirt [regional]
yIvbeH naQHa` - n - vest/waistcoat
yIvbeH SeQHa` - n - t-shirt
yI` - v - speak in an honorable or respectful fashion
yI`De` - n - cervid-like animal (like a deer or moose)
yI`var - n - treatment; therapy
yo - v - slap, hit with palm
yob - v - harvest
yobta` yupma` - n - festival to celebrate the end of harvest
yoD - n - shield
yoD - v - shield
yoD`egh - v - shield oneself
yoghan - n - renaissance, revival
yoghIp - n - asthma
yoH - v - be brave
yoHwI` - n - brave one
yoj - n - judgment
yol - n - conflict
yomIj - n - neutron
yon - v - be satisfied
yonmoH - v - satisfy
yong - v - get in
yopwaH - n - pants; trousers
yopwaH bID - n - shorts
yopwaH buq - n - pants pouch; trouser pocket
yoq - n - humanoid
yoq yIn yuQ - n - Class-M planet
yoq`eD - n - stool (furniture)
yor - n - top [side or face of an object]
yor - v - sulk, mope, pout
yorgh - n - shelf, bookshelf, fixed or non-fixed (general term)
yorqej - n - nomad
yoruba` Hol - n - Yoruba (language)
yoS - n - district; area [within a country]
yot - n - invasion
yot - v - invade
yotlh - n - field [of land]; park (e.g., recreational)
yov - v - charge [military term]
yoy - v - be upside down
yoymoH - v - flip [transitive]
yo` - n - fleet [of ships]
yo`gha` - n - yoga
yo`SeH yaHnIv - n - Operations Command
yu - n - first [and last] tone of nonatonic musical scale
yub - n - husk; rind; peel; shell [of fruit; nut]
yuch - n - chocolate
yuch ngogh - n - chocolate bar
yuD - v - be dishonest
yuDHa` - v - be honest
yugh - v - include, consist of, be composed of (in chemistry)
yughmoH - v - filter [database term; X neH yughmoH filter for X only, include X only]
yuHSIQ - n - titanium
yul - v - be itchy
yup - v - pump
yupma` - n - festival
yuq - v - outwit, outsmart
yuQ - n - planet
yuQHom - n - planetoid
yuQjIjDIvI` - n - United Federation of Planets
yuQjIjQa` - n - United Federation of Planets
yuQQeD - n - geography
yuQtej - n - geographer
yur - n - distant cousin; distant niece; distant nephew [second cousin; grand-nephew, etc.
yuryum - n - yurium (explosive)
yut - v - distract, create a diversion [The object of this verb, when there is an object, is the person or group of people (usually) being distracted.]
yutlhegh - n - musical scale, range, spectrum
yuv - v - push
yuvtlhe` - n - top; lid; cover; cap
yuvwan - n - community [a not organized group of people with same interest]
yuwey - n - continent
yu` - v - question; interrogate
yu`egh - n - wave
yu`muD - n - form (to be filled out)

`

`a - conj - but; nevertheless; even so; however
`ab - v - have a length/height of
`ach - conj - but; nevertheless; even so; however; whereas (expressing contrast)
`achghej - n - void
`achler - n - nape, scruff, back of neck
`aD - n - vein
`aD - v - have a length of; measure
`aDHom - n - capillary
`agh - v - show; demonstrate; display
`aH - n - paraphernalia
`aHDuH - n - prototype
`aHra` - n - harness
`aj - n - admiral
`al - v - float (in/on air); be random (of a number) [mI' 'al (a) random number; 'al mI' the number is random.]
`alghuQ - n - bastard, illegitimate child
`aljayIr - n - Algeria
`alnIl - n - (belt) buckle
`alnum - n - freckle(s)
`alngegh - n - axe with spike at end
`altlhIq - n - exclamation
`alwI` - n - floater, informal word for parachute
`alya`man - n - Yemen
`al`arabyatSawDI`ya - n - Saudi Arabia
`al`ay`raq - n - Iraq
`al`Imarat - n - United Arab Emirates
`al`on - n - glass (material)
`al`urDun - n - Jordan
`ambay - n - island
`amerI`qa` SepjIjQa` - n - United States of America; USA
`amerI`qa` tIng chan tIng - n - South America
`amerI`qa` `ev chan `ev - n - North America
`ampaS - n - academy
`amrI` - n - balcony
`amuS - n - garishness, gaudiness, ostentatiousness (It is typically used as the object of the verbs 'ang, 'agh, and chIw, but it's not restricted to those; used for "be showy, be ostentatious, be garish")
`an - n - waste [as someone sacrifices forces for a certain goal or just wastes one's resources]
`an - v - be petrified; be a waste
`anDorya`ngan - n - Andorian
`anISyum - n - anicium (explosive)
`anmoH - v - sacrifice
`antartIq - n - Antarctica
`anyan `oQqar - n - onion
`an`or - n - fossil
`an`orQeD - n - paleontology
`an`ortej - n - paleontologist
`ang - v - show; reveal Y `ang X (mu`) [colloquially] [the word] X means Y (when defining a word monolingually)
`anggho`la - n - Angola
`angweD - n - museum
`angwIl - n - one of the Kos'Karii [Pale, serpent-like creatures which inhabited the waters crossed by the Barge of the Dead on its way to Gre'thor.]
`ap - v - be dented
`ap - n - dues, toll
`aplo` - n - case; container; box
`aplom - n - pellet
`aplom chuch - n - hailstone
`apmoH - v - dent
`apraQ - n - calcium
`apuStoQ - n - hawk-like bird of prey that flies particularly fast
`aq - v - predict, prognosticate [based on deductive reasoning or research or science]
`aqaD - n - Akkad
`aqaDyan Hol - n - Akkadian language
`aqleH - n - type of weapon [half ax; half ~bat'leth~]
`aqnaw - n - type of knife [general purpose]
`aqroS - n - maximum
`aqroS - n - top [inside or downturned surface]
`aquta` - n - gourd, squash, pumpkin
`aQlo` - n - forehead [regional]
`aQvoH - n - act of watching over a fallen warrior's body
`ar - q - how many?; how much?
`arab - n - Arab
`arab Hol - n - Arabic
`arDeH - n - ivy-like plant
`argh - v - worsen
`arHentInya` - n - Argentina
`arlogh - q - how many times?
`aS - n - Oz
`aSerbayjan - n - Azerbaijan
`aSralya` - n - Australia
`aSya` - n - Asia
`at - n - Klingon ~a~ sound
`at - v - inherit [for instance, if the father dies, the son inherits his possessions]
`atlantIq bIQ`a` - n - Atlantic Ocean
`atray - n - siege
`atlhqam - n - type of fungus
`atlhqam tun - n - a type of mold ["soft fungus"]
`av - v - guard
`avghanIStan - n - Afghanistan
`avrIHI`lI` Hol - n - Afrihili
`avrIqaS Hol - n - Afrikaans
`avrI`qa` - n - Africa
`avwI` - n - guard
`aw - v - go through, pass through (matter) [This is what ghosts, or phased lifeforms, do.]
`awje` - n - type of beverage [root beer]
`awtIr - n - musical note / tone (This refers to the sound, not the musical notation)
`awtIr ngutlh - n - written musical note (when referring to a specific note such as yu or bIm)
`aw` - v - sting
`ayItI - n - Haiti
`ay - v - float [in/on water or other liquids; for in space, see "be adrift" rIjHa']
`ayIvlaS - n - closest Klingon equivalent to a moss, and quite similar
`ay` - n - section; part; component; piece
`a`ghen - n - professor, master teacher
`a`leghen`I` - n - Allegheny (River or Mountains)
`eb - n - opportunity; chance; opening
`ebHIv - n - still (apparatus used to distill various concoctions into an acceptable form of HIq)
`ebHIv pa` - n - distillery [room]
`ebHIv qach - n - distillery [building]
`ebmey jonHa` - v - kill time
`ebraH - n - climax (sexual), orgasm
`ech - n - brigadier
`echlet - n - board
`echlet Hab - n - touchpad
`echletHom - n - card
`echletHom vey - n - deck of cards
`eD - v - crawl
`eDjen - n - arrogant person; haughty person
`eDSeHcha - n - take-off/landing thrusters [plural form]
`egh - n - third tone of nonatonic musical scale
`eH - excl - ready
`ej - conj - and
`ej De` vIchel - adv - by the way, parenthetically (This comes at the beginning of a sentence. This is the full form. In everyday conversation, 'ej and/or De' (and even vI-) are often omitted. Klingon grammarians argue about whether the resulting De'chel should be considered an adverbial in its own right.)
`ejDo` - n - starship; starship class
`ejtlhal - n - tumor
`ejvoH - n - stripe
`ejyaH - num - infinity; infinite
`ejyaHlogh - adv - infinite times
`ejyo` - n - Starfleet
`ejyo`waw` - n - star base
`ejyo` ra`ghomquv - n - Starfleet Command [If Starfleet Command is of a lower level of importance than Starfleet High Command, leave off the quv, getting ra'ghom.]
`ejyo`SeH yaHnIv - n - Starfleet Command [If "Starfleet Command" is more like "Starfleet Operations Command", then go with 'ejyo'SeH yaHnIv.]
`el - v - enter; go in
`el - n - entrance (short form)
`elaDya` - n - Greece
`elaS - n - Elas [planet]
`elbaHren - n - Bahrain
`elHa` - n - exit (short form)
`elHa`meH He - n - exit
`elI`jaH - n - unexpected visitor; uninvited guest
`elmaQ - n - serotonin
`elmeH He - n - entrance
`elpI` - n - serving platter
`elquwet - n - Kuwait
`em - n - behind; area behind
`em - v - vomit
`emrIgh - n - ancestor (direct) [an individual ancestor in one's own bloodline]
`emvI` - n - pin (straight)
`en - v - be not something, non-
`enDeq - n - bladder
`enno - n - lens
`enteD - n - drug (ritualistic or recreational)
`eng - n - cloud
`engDay - n - flap
`ep - v - consume soup; eat soup; kiss, human style (slang)
`epIl naH - n - apple
`epIn - n - a Klingon fruit similar to a peach, plum, or apricot
`eq - v - be early
`eqwaDor - n - Ecuador
`eQ - adv - just now, a moment ago
`eQQuSngew - excl - achoo!
`eQway - n - navel, belly button
`eQway` - n - mouse (for computer)
`eQway` `echlet - n - mousepad
`er - n - type of animal
`ergh - v - hallucinate [can take an object, like hallucinate a dream]
`erItraya` - n - Eritrea
`erwI`Daq - n - telepathy
`er`In - n - end [of stick; piece of string etc.; opposite megh'an]
`eS - v - be low
`eSpanya` - n - Spain
`eSpeD - n - spade (card suit)
`eSperanto Hol - n - Esperanto
`eSqa` - n - religious garb, the robe worn by a judge [an old word referring to specialized or ritual clothing (though not a uniform)]
`eSreH - n - dew
`eStIy - n - Estonia
`eSwat`I`nI - n - eSwatini
`et - n - fore
`et - n - Klingon ~e~ sound
`et - v - bounce, rebound, ricochet [the thing something bounces off of is marked with -vo`]
`etlh - n - sword; blade
`ev - n - area northwestward; area towards the northwest
`ev - v - applaud (this applies to whatever it is that Klingons do to applaud or show approval/appreciation)
`evnagh - n - subspace
`evta` - n - animal similar to a newt or salamander
`evtlhev - n - base (opposite of acid)
`ewro - n - euro
`ewrop - n - Europe
`ewSIqaDIy - n - Basque Country
`ey - v - be good; be delicious; be txsty; be harmonious
`eyawaDIy - n - Irrawaddy
`eyre` - n - Ireland
`e` - pro - that [previous topic]
`e` qa` - instead of
`e`levan - n - elephant
`e`mam - n - aunt [father's sister]
`e`mamnal - n - aunt [father's brother's wife]
`e`nal - n - someone who married into the family [does not specify the exact relationship]
`e`qIn - n - rustling sound `e`qIn tlhen rustle, make a rustling sound
`Ib - n - tub
`Ich - v - be slippery
`IDnar - n - magic, wizardry
`IDnar lIl - v - perform magic [referring to a stage magician]
`IDnar lIlwI` - n - magician
`IDnar pIn`a` - n - wizard, sorcerer
`Igh - v - be cursed; be jinxed [slang]
`Ighbo Hol - n - Igbo (language)
`IghvaH - n - type of animal; ~igvah~
`Igh`aDmegh - n - antibody [body part -- plural is formed with -mey]
`IH - v - be beautiful; be handsome
`Ij - v - listen
`Il - v - be sincere
`IlHa` - v - be insincere
`Ilyaw` - n - epitome (It is used to indicate the best of something. For example, `Ilyaw` `oH tajvam`e` (literally, though clumsily, "this knife is an epitome") expresses the idea that the knife is of the best quality. When used as the object of rur, the quality is very high, but not necessarily the best: `Ilyaw` rur tajvam (literally "this knife resembles an epitome") means that the knife is of extremely high quality.
`Im - v - render; boil fat
`Impey` - n - pyramid
`ImSIng - n - sewer [This refers to the whole sewer system -- tunnels, conduits, valves, etc.]
`ImtIy - n - cameloid animal without a hump, like a llama or alpaca
`Imyagh - excl - sound made by a vIghro` or ghISnar [This is an imitative word and there are variations. And not everyone uses it in the first place.]
`In - n - percussion instrument [drum; bell]
`InDIye`na` - n - Indiana
`InDIyene`palIS - n - Indianapolis
`InDogh - n - syllable
`InDoneSya` - n - Indonesia
`InSep - n - penis
`InSong - n - flower (bright part of plant)
`InterlIngwa` Hol - n - Interlingua
`Internet - n - Internet
`InuwIt Hol - n - Inuit (language)
`Inyam - n - ego, the self
`Ing - v - move clockwise
`Inglan - n - England
`IngSav - n - melody
`Ip - n - oath
`Ip - v - vow; swear
`Ipnal - n - spouse
`Iptay - n - epetai (honorific, grade 5)
`Iq - v - be too many; be too much
`IqnaH QaD - n - dry mucus, booger
`IqnaH - n - mucus
`IqngIl - n - coil, spring
`IQ - v - be sad
`IQDoy` - n - parody, caricature (This term may be applied to a drawing or sculpture, for example, or to something written or performed)
`Ir - v - guess, suppose, imagine [as in mejpu` SuvwI` `e` vI`Ir I guess the warrior has left]
`Ir - v - be creamy, be pasty
`Irgh - v - bully, intimidate, pick on, harass (used for all ages)
`IrmeD - n - eddy [in air]
`IrneH - n - uncle [mother's brother]
`IrneHnal - n - uncle [mother's sister's husband]
`ISjaH - n - calendar
`ISlan - n - Iceland
`ISQIm - n - harmony [Refers to music only, not people getting along]
`IStanbul - n - Istanbul
`ISyar - n - legacy
`It - n - Klingon ~I~ sound
`It - v - be depressed
`Italya` - n - Italy
`Ityop`Iya - n - Ethiopia
`Itlh - v - be advanced; be highly developed
`Iv - n - altitude
`Iv - q - who?
`IventoH - n - pineapple-like fruit [A Klingon fruit that grows on trees that's kind of like a pineapple (though pineapples don't grow on trees) - largish with thorny projections on a reasonably hard shell or skin. Unlike a pineapple, though, the inside is more bitter than sweet.]
`IvtIH - n - hip
`Iw - n - blood
`Iw Doy` - n - anemia, anaemia [informal]
`Iw remwI` - n - vampire
`Iw `Ip ghomey - n - blood oath circles - the name of a well known sculpture by mIStaq
`Iwghargh - n - type of animal; bloodworm
`IyDo Hol - n - Ido
`I` - n - armpit
`I` ghew - n - a bug that sort of resembles a beetle
`I`ran - n - Iran
`I`SeghIm - n - curmudgeon
`o - excl - O [before a name in direct address]
`ob - v - be curved, arced
`obe` - n - order; group officially recognized by government
`obmaQ - n - ax
`obmoH - v - curve, arch; raise (one's eyebrows)
`obray`wal - n - type of animal; sort of resembles a scorpion [It runs really fast in a seemingly haphazard way and has a dangerous (sharp and poisonous) tail.]
`och - n - tunnel; conduit
`och mutlhwI` - n - plumber
`oD - v - arbitrate; mediate
`oDtu` - n - spot, splotch, blemish, blotch
`oDwI` - n - arbitrator
`ogh - v - invent; devise
`oH - pro - it
`oj - v - be thirsty
`ojHa` - v - not be thirsty anymore
`ol - v - verify, check if (something) is true, make sure that (something) is true
`olQan - n - gap [like the space between your teeth or the area between rows of seats in a theater, but it and `olQanmey can be used for the space in a room, space on a desk, etc. A verb commonly used with `olQan is `uch. This generally means "hold, grasp," but when the object is `olQan it's often translated "occupy" or "take up."]
`om - v - resist; fend off
`onDu`raS - n - Honduras
`onroS - n - drop [like a raindrop or a drop of any liquid]
`onteryo - n - Ontario
`ong - v - be cunning; be sly
`op - n - some; an unknown or unspecified quantity
`opDIch - num - nth
`opleS - adv - one day, someday
`oplogh - adv - several times
`opuHwI` - n - prostitute
`oq - v - sink [into water, etc]
`oqe` - n - coral
`oqmoH - v - submerge
`oQqar - n - root; tuber
`oQqar qIj - n - licorice-like root (Klingons eat a kind of root they call `oQqar qIj ("black root"), which is rather bitter.)
`or - v - pilot; operate [an aircraft]
`orgh - v - skitter (like a startled lizard or bug)
`orghengan - n - Organian
`orghen - n - Organia
`orghen rojmab - n - Organian Peace Treaty
`orghenya` - n - Organia
`orghenya` rojmab - n - Organian Peace Treaty
`orghenya`ngan - n - Organian
`orwI` - n - pilot; one who operates [an aircraft]
`oS - v - represent
`oSHeQ - n - spleen
`oSIya`nIya - n - Oceania
`oSteray` - n - Austria
`oSwI` - n - emissary
`ot - n - Klingon ~o~ sound
`ot - v - withhold (information)
`otHa` - v - disclose, divulge; leak (information) chich `otHa` leak information
`otHel - n - dock [any place a vessel is moored, even if there is no structure]
`otlh - n - photon
`otlh poH - n - Planck time
`otlhQeD - n - quantum physics
`otlhtej - n - quantum physicist
`ov - v - compete
`ovjeq`IS - n - professional (A "professional," meaning someone who does something because it's their occupation (as opposed to hobby) or official position is a `ovjeq`IS. Often the slang term yaS (literally "officer") is used.)
`ovmay - n - direct object
`oynot - n - unspecified flesh (of an animal)
`oy` - n - ache; pain; sore; hurt
`oy` - v - ache; hurt; be sore
`oy`naQ - n - painstik
`o` - n - aft
`olan `ambaymey - n - Åland Islands
`o`lav - n - type of drum
`o`lav`a` - n - bass drum
`o`mat ghIrI` - n - O'Mat Gri [In the TNG episode "Heart of Glory", the Klingon ordering food and drink (from the food replicator) says he wants 'o'mat ghIrI', which is some sort of meat and pasta-like concoction. Then he specifies that the fat in the food should be boiled, one of the optional ways to prepare this dish. He says tI'Im! boil (the fat [in the entrees])! He uses the prefix tI- because there are three separate entrees. Finally, he orders a special, rather pungent Klingon beverage known as pIvyoch.]
`o`megh - n - end [of song]
`o`nI` - n - foam, froth
`o`nI` Sub - n - solid foam (like styrofoam)
`o`rIS - n - molecule
`o`roy` - n - chalk
`o`wen - n - double agent; someone/something of ambiguous status
`ub - v - be lonely
`uch - v - hold; grasp; lock [in the sense of locking on a target: DoS 'uchta' ("he/she locked on the target")]; keep (in the combination of change) Jim `uch QoQDaj Jim is absorbed in his music.
`uchgha` - n - RNA
`uchHa` - v - let go of
`uD - n - laser
`uD Haqtaj - n - laser scalpel
`uD`a` - n - laser
`ugh - v - be heavy
`ughanDa - n - Uganda
`ughDuq ghargh - n - caterpillar
`uH - v - have a hangover; be hung over
`uj - n - ~uj~ [unit of length]
`uj`a` - n - big ~uj~ [unit of length]
`ul - n - electricity
`ul gho - n - circuit
`ul ghom`oH - n - electrical outlet
`ul pat mutlhwI` - n - electrician
`ul rarwI` - n - plug [electric]
`ul Sech - n - flashlight
`ul `aplo` - n - battery
`um - v - be qualified
`uman - n - Oman
`uma` - n - petal
`umber - n - ecosystem, environment
`umyotlh - n - profit [this is strictly in the monetary sense, not general advantage or benefit]
`un - n - pot [for food preparation; general term]
`un quD - n - artificially produced ~qud~
`un naQ - n - stirring stick; mixing stick
`unqal - n - kettle
`unqer ghItlhmeH Ho`DoS quq - n - Unker Non-Linear Writing System
`unwat - n - basket [weaved container for carrying things]
`ung - v - squat down
`up - v - be unsavory; be disgusting; be repugnant; be loathsome; be icky
`uppol - n - stunt, feat
`uq - v - whistle [if there's an object, it's the thing (song? birdcall?) being whistled]
`uqrayI`na - n - Ukraine
`uQ - n - dinner
`uQ`a` - n - banquet; feast
`ur - v - treason; commit treason
`urgh - v - jab, poke `urgh neH tinker with [slang]
`urghwI` - n - poker (card game)
`urmang - n - treason
`urughway` - n - Uruguay
`urwI` - n - traitor
`uS - n - leg
`uS nev`ob - n - thigh
`uS reStav - n - shin
`uS tutren - n - inside of the knee
`uSgheb - n - type of bird [makes a ruckus at dawn; fiercer than a rooster]
`uSqan - n - iron (element)
`uSu` - n - sauce for ~gladst~
`ut - n - Klingon ~u~ sound
`ut - v - be essential; be necessary
`ut`at - n - chest of drawers
`utlh - n - officer emeritus; retired officer
`uy - v - press down; click (a button)
`uy` - num - million [number-forming element]
`u` - n - universe
`u` Dop - n - mirror universe
`u` quq - n - parallel universe

Suffixes

Suffix	Applies to	Type	Meaning
-ba`	Verbs	6 (qualification)	obviously
-bej	Verbs	6 (qualification)	certainly; undoubtedly
-beH	Verbs	2 (predisposition)	ready; set up This suffix is used when the subject is inanimate. -rup is used when the subject is a living being.
-be`	Verbs	Rover	not This suffix negates the verb, it implies that the action is not done. It is not used with imperative prefixes, instead -Qo' is used.
-bogh	Verbs	9 (relative clause marker)	that, what, where, which, who, whom or whose.
-chaj	Nouns	4 (possession)	their
-choH	Verbs	3 (change)	beginning to; becoming; starting to This suffix indicates a change in state or direction.
-chugh	Verbs	9 (subordinate clause marker)	if
-chuq	Verbs	1 (Reflexive)	each other; one another This suffix indicates that the action of the verb affects the subject. The verb prefix must have a plural subject and no object (such as ma- or Su-).
-chu`	Verbs	6 (qualification)	clearly; perfectly This suffix may indicate that the action was performed correctly.
-Daj	Nouns	4 (possession)	his; her; its
-Daq	Nouns	5 (locative)	at, by, in, on, to This suffix indicates that something is happening in the vicinity of the noun. The exact translation depends on the context. It can only refer to location in space, and is not used for time (in June) or in the abstract (in English).
-DI`	Verbs	9 (subordinate clause marker)	when; as soon as
-Du`	Nouns	2 (plural)	This suffix forms the plural of nouns which refer to body parts of humanoids and other animals. See also -mey and -pu'.
-ghach	Verbs	9 (nominalizer)	This suffix turns a verb into a noun, however its use is not clear. See also -wI'.
-Ha`	Verbs	Rover	undo; mis-; de-; dis- This suffix is similar to -be'. -be' implies that something is not done, -Ha implies that it was undone, and so is stronger. It indicates that there has been a change of state; that the action has been undone or been carried out incorrectly. This suffix is not a rover, since it always appears before any other suffixes, right next to the verb. It can be used with imperative prefixes.
-Hey	Nouns	3 (qualification)	apparent This suffix indicates that the speaker has doubts about the use of the noun.
-Hom	Nouns	1 (dimunitive)	This suffix creates a noun which is smaller, less powerful or less important than without the suffix. See also -'a'.
-jaj	Verbs	9	let; may This suffix suffix indicates a wish of the speaker for something to happen, and is often used in a toast. It cannot be used with a type 7 suffix.
-laH	Verbs	6	can; able
-law`	Verbs	6 (qualification)	seemingly; apparently
-lIj	Nouns	4 (possession)	your (singular) Used when the noun does not refer to a being capable of using language.
-lI`	Verbs	7 (aspect)	This suffix indicates that the action is in progress or incomplete, but always with a definite objective. See also -taH.
-lI`	Nouns	4 (possession)	your (singular) Used when the noun refers to a being capable of using language.
-lu`	Verbs	6 (indefinite subject)	somebody; someone; something This suffix indicates that the subject is indefinite or unknown.
-maj	Nouns	4 (possession)	our Used when the noun does not refer to a being capable of using language.
-ma`	Nouns	4 (possession)	our Used when the noun refers to a being capable of using language.
-meH	Verbs	9 (purpose clause marker)	for; for the purpose of; in order to
-mey	Nouns	2 (plural)	This suffix forms the plural of nouns, excepting where these refer to beings capable of using language (see -pu') or body parts (see Du'-). These include group nouns.
-moH	Verbs	4 (cause)	cause; make This suffix indicates that the subject is causing a change of condition or creating a new condition. It is often not directly translated. When applied to an intransitive verb, the verb becomes transitive.
-mo`	Verbs	9 (subordinate clause marker	because of; due to
-mo`	Nouns	5	because of; due to
-na`	Nouns	3 (qualification)	definite This suffix indicates that the speaker is sure about the use of the noun.
-neS	Verbs	8 (honorific)	be honoured to This suffix is used to indicate extreme politeness or deference to a superior.
-nIS	Verbs	2 (volition)	need; must
-oy	Nouns	1	This suffix indicates that the noun is used as a term of endearment.
-pa`	Verbs	9 (subordinate clause marker)	before
-pu`	Verbs	7 (aspect)	This suffix is used for an action which is completed or finished.
-pu`	Nouns	2 (plural)	This suffix forms the plurals for words denoting beings that use language. See also -mey and -Du'.
-qang	Verbs	2 (volition)	be willing to
-qa`	Verbs	3 (change)	again; resuming; restarting This suffix is used when an action has stopped and then starts again.
-qoq	Nouns	3 (qualification)	so-called This suffix indicates that the noun is used ironically or falsely.
-qu`	Verbs	Rover	well; very; very much This suffix emphasises the action. It is not always directly translated, the emphasis instead applied to the way the words are spoken.
-Qo`	Verbs	Rover	don't; won't This suffix negates the verb when an imperative prefix has been used, when it is usually translated by don't. It is also used to indicate a refusal, and is translated by won't. This suffix is not a rover, since it is always placed between any type 8 and 9 suffixes.
-raj	Nouns	4 (possession)	your (plural) Used when the noun does not refer to a being capable of using language.
-ra`	Nouns	4 (possession)	your (plural) Used when the noun refers to a being capable of using language.
-rup	Verbs	2 (predisposition)	be ready to; be prepared to This suffix is used when the subject is a living being. -beH is used when the subject is inanimate.
-taH	Verbs	7 (aspect)	This suffix is used for an action which is still underway or is continuing, with or without an objective. See also -lI'.
-ta`	Verbs	7 (aspect)	Like -pu', this suffix indicates that the action is complete. It is used when the action is intended or deliberate, and not accidental. It is often translated in the same way as -pu'.
-vaD	Nouns	5	intended for; to; for This suffix indicates that the noun is to benefit. It is also added to an indirect object, which precedes the object.
-vam	Nouns	4 (specification)	this; these
-vetlh	Nouns	4 (specification)	that; those
-vIp	Verbs	2	be afraid to
-vIS	Verbs	9 (subordinate clause marker)	while
-vo`	Nouns	5	from This suffix indicates movement in a direction away from the noun. It can only refer to physical movement, and is not used for time (from June).
-wIj	Nouns	4 (possession)	my Used when the noun does not refer to a being capable of using language.
-wI'	Verbs	9 (nominalizer)	This suffix has the meaning one who does or thing which does. It converts the verb into a regular noun and is similar to -er in English. See also -ghach.
-wI'	Nouns	4 (possession)	my Used when the noun refers to a being capable of using language.
-'a'	Verbs	9	This suffix indicates the sentence is a question to be answered by yes or no.
-'a'	Nouns	1 (augmentative)	This suffix forms a noun which is bigger, more powerful or more important than without the suffix. See also -'Hom.
-`egh	Verbs	1 (Reflexive)	herself; himself; myself; oneself; themselves; yourself; yourselves; automatically This suffix indicates that the action of the verb affects the subject. Any prefix used must be one that has no object (such as jI-, bI-, ma- or Su-). Means "automatically" with machines, automatic doors, and the like.
-`e`	Nouns	5	This suffix indicates that the noun is the topic of the sentence. For example, it is placed on the head noun of a relative clause, indicated by the verb suffix -bogh.

Prefixes

Subject	Object
Subject	none	me	you (sing.)	him/her/it	us	you (plural)	them
I	jI-		qa-	vI-		Sa-	vI-
you (sing.)	bI-	cho-		Da-	ju-		Da-
he/she/it	none	mu-	Du-	none	nu-	lI-	none
we	ma-		pI-	wI-		re-	DI-
you (plural)	Su-	tu-		bo-	che-		bo-
they	none	mu-	nI-	lu-	nu-	lI-	none

none indicates that no prefix is required. For the blank entries, the object is translated by -`egh or -chuq.

Imperative Prefixes

Subject	Object
Subject	none	me	him/her/it	us	them
you (sing.) (addressed to one person)	yI-	HI-	yI-	gho-	tI-
you (plural) (addressed to several people)	pe-	HI-	yI-	gho-	tI-

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 * '''qurmoQ''' - ''n'' - larynx
 * '''qur`ep''' - ''n'' - wig
-* '''quS''' - ''n'' - chair
+* '''quS''' - ''n'' - chair '''quSDaq bIba`.''' Duh!
 * '''quSDI`''' - ''n'' - batch
 * '''quSlab''' - ''n'' - couch, bench, chair for multiple people

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