Klingon language

General information

• Known as tlhIngan (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Agglutinative language (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

Vocabulary

Modifiers

• -ngan
  • People from a place
    • Derived from context
• -pu'
  • Plural
    • Derived from context

Words

• 'anDorngan
  • Andorian (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)
• 'o'yoS
  • Sensitive body part; "pain in the 'o'yoS" (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• biHnuch
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• bIngDub
  • Uncertain, likely "ass" or similar (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• boQDu'
  • Aide-de-camp (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
• DenobuluS
  • Denobula (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• DenobuluSngan
  • Denobulan (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• DIS
  • Unit of time equal to one rotation of Qo'noS (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Doghjey
  • Unconditional surrender (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Duj
  • Ship, vessel (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• ghargh
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• ghojmeH
  • Some form of blade (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
• ghojmoHwI'
  • Teacher, instructor (TNG Comic: "Perchance to Dream")
• Ghuy'cha
  • Uncertain profane interjection (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
• Ha'DIbaH
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru; TOS Novel: Forged in Fire)
• Hap
  • Positively-charged particle, antiparticle to rugh (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• HoD
  • Commanding officer (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Hut
  • Unknown number (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• jatyIn
  • Possessing spirits (TNG: "Power Play"; TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace, Q & A)
• jegh'pu'wI
  • Conquered subjects of the Empire or prisoners of war (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• kilaan
  • Unit of time similar in magnitude to one hour (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• kuvit
  • Unit of time of uncertain duration (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
    • Somewhere on the order of a minute (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)
• loDmach
  • Colloquial term for the penis (VAN Novel: Harbinger)
    • Literally "little man"'
• lup
  • Unit of time similar in magnitude to one second (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• MajQa
  • Congratulations (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
• menIqam
  • Unit of measurement, very small (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• mu'qaD
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Nov
  • Alien (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• par'mach
  • Aggressive love (DS9: "Looking for Par'Mach In All the Wrong Places")
• par'machkai
  • Lover, romantic partner (TNG Comic: "Perchance to Dream"; DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "Change of Heart", "Shadows and Symbols"; VOY: "Prophecy")
• Pejeghbe'
  • Surrender (imperative) (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• petaQ
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (Various)
• petaQ'Doj
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
    • Likely intensive form of petaQ
• qelI'qam
  • Unit of measurement similar in magnitude to one kilometer (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru; VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)
  • Anglicization: "kellicam"
• QI'yaH
  • Uncertain profane interjection (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)
• qul
  • Fire (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Qul
  • Research (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• romuluS
  • Romulus
• romuluSngan
  • Romulan (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru, Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
• rugh
  • Negatively-charged particle, antiparticle for Hap (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Saj
  • Pet/slave/sacrifice; unclear from context (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• Say'
  • To clean (verb) (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
  • Clean (adjective) (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• Soch
  • Unknown number (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• SoH
  • Apparently "you are" or some equivalent existential verb (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• taHqeq
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru; VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)
• targhDIr
  • Type of furniture or upholstery (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
    • Possibly targ-skin?
• tera
  • Earth
• tera'ngan
  • Human (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• toDSaH
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind; TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)
• tu'HomIraH
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• varHuS
  • Variety of wax or candle (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
• vetlh
  • Derogatory term (TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)
• vItHay'
  • Some form of honorable combat (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• vulqangan
  • Vulcan (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• yIntagh
  • Derogatory term, likely profane (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill, A Time for War, A Time for Peace)

Phrases

• betleH 'etlh
  • Blade of the Bat'leth (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• bItuHlaHbe' chugh blquvlaHbe'
  • "If you cannot be shamed you cannot be honored." (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• Boch ghlchraj
  • "Your nose is shiny"; idiom connoting an insult (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• choqaDqa'chugh vaj bIJegh
  • "Test me again, and die!" (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• Ghuh tIjta pagh QIH
  • "Prepare to be boarded or destroyed" (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• jImob. veQ SoH. ngeDqu' HeghlIj. quvbe'pu' yInlIj; Il'be'.
  • "I need no help to take your honorless, worthless life." (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• ngem lopwI' vIrI'
  • "I greet a forest reveler" (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• nov Duj
  • "Alien vessel" (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• nuq DaneH
  • "What do you want?" (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• nutlhej SuvwI'
  • "A warrior is among us" (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
• Pejeghbe' Duj
  • "Surrender your ship" (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• wa' Dol nIvDaq matay'DI' maQap, 'Aj
  • "We succeed together in a greater whole" (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
• wa' luHIv jav 'e' lumaS tera' nuchpu' net Sov
  • "Six against one, typical cowardly Earther odds" (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)

Uncertain or absent translation

• Mevyap!
  • Interjection, meaning unclear; halt, stop talking, quiet (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, To Brave the Storm)
• QaStaH QI'yah nuq jay'?
  • Said in reaction to a ship's systems inexplicably malfunctioning (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
• SoS
  • Noun; uncertain translation, likely pejorative (ENT Novel: To Brave the Storm)