tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 17 07:11:38 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghab (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, May 17, 2006.
>
>Klingon word: ghab
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: meat from midsection of animal
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 27: The word {ghab}, however, which refers to any chunk of the
>midsection of an animal, has slightly varying meanings depending on
>region. In most of the empire, including the First City, {ghab} is rather
>inclusive: basically, whatever was chopped off the animal as a single
>piece, with or without bones or internal organs.
This passage continues:
In some areas, {ghab} is never applied to a cut of meat lacking
bones. Instead, the phrase {ghab tun} (perhaps translatable as
"fillet", though literally, "soft ghab") is sometimes heard.
The same concept would be expressed in most of the Empire,
including by speakers of {ta' Hol}, by a longer phrase: {Hom
Hutlhbogh ghab} ("ghab that lacks bone").
>KGT p. 87. Large animals are usually chopped into pieces, sometimes with
>attention paid to which piece is which (thus a {tIq} ["heart"] might be
>served as a dish in its own right), sometimes not (the {ghab}, for
>example, is just a chunk of the midsection of an animal, including any
>organs that may have remained attached after the carving).
More relevant culinary notes:
the gastronomically uneducated might consider Klingon food to
be nothing but small animals (still alive) or chunks of barely
dead animals thrown together indiscriminately with odoriferous
herbs... (KGT 83)
A mixture of animal parts is {Daghtuj}, regardless of whether the
parts are from the same type of animal. (KGT 88)
Table manners are important:
A diner transfers a portion to his or her plate ... if one is
available, by simply grabbing the desired quantity of food with a
hand... If necessary, two hands may be used to break off ({wItlh})
a slab of the desired fare. (KGT 99)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons