tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 27 13:52:55 2003
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Re: Klingon WOTD: qama' (n)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, January 25, 2003.
>
>Klingon word: qama'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: prisoner
As used in canon:
qama'pu' jonta' neH
Wanted prisoners! (clipped) TKD
"I wanted prisoners!" ST3
qama'pu' vIjonta' vIneH
I wanted to capture prisoners. TKD
qama' vIqIppu' neH
I merely hit the prisoner. TKD
qama'pu' DIHoH 'e' luSov
They know we kill prisoners. TKD
qama'pu' DIHoH net Sov
One knows we kill prisoners. TKD
puqpu' chaH qama'pu''e'
The prisoners are children.
("As for the prisoners, they are children.") TKD
yaSvaD taj nobpu' qama'
The prisoner gave the officer the knife. TKD
'avwI'vaD jatlh qama' ...
A prisoner says to the guard... PK
jatlh qama' ...
The prisoner says... PK
'avwI' nejDI' narghta'bogh qama' reH 'avwI' Sambej
When an escaped prisoner looks for a guard, he always finds one. TKW
tera'ngan ghaH qama''e'
The prisoner is a Terran. KGT
bIghHa'Daq ghaHtaH qama''e'
The prisoner is in the prison. KGT
cha'maH cha' joQDu' ghaj qama'
The prisoner has twenty-two ribs
(idiom: suggesting that the prisoner is somehow a bit strange) KGT
pel'aQDaj ghorpa' qama' yIHoH
Before it breaks its shell, kill the prisoner
(i.e. "Kill the prisoner now, while you've got a chance") KGT
qama'pu'vaD tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh
you speak Klingon to the prisoners (st.klingon)
qama'pu'vaD SoQ Dajatlh
you make a speech to the prisoners (st.klingon)
>Additional Notes:
>See also {jav}.
A slang word for "prisoner".
The origin of this slang usage of {jav} (literally, "six") is unknown.
The usual word for prisoner is {qama'}. (KGT 153)
This verb [luH] literally means "yank" and is used in such sentences as
{jav luHpu' 'avwI'} ("The guard has caused a prisoner to
confess"--literally,
"The guard has yanked a six"). (KGT 153)
All of which proves that Kirk was wrong when he said "Klingons don't take
prisoners" in ST2.
--
Voragh "Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon
- that's
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons hard!" (Montgomery
Scott, STIV)