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Re: Klingon WOTD: rop (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: rop (verb)
• Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:10:12 -0500
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>Category: Stative Verbs
>
>Klingon word:   rop
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be sick, ill

As used in canon:

   rop
   He/she is sick. KLS

   jIroplaw'
   I feel sick. CK

   ropchoHbe' tlhInganpu'
   Klingons do not get sick. TKW

   tlhIngan yoH pIv verengan yoH rop
   The Klingon is braver than the Ferengi (slang) KGT

Cf. {pIvHa'} "be unhealthy" and {ngej} "infect".

Cp. more specifically {'uH} "have a hangover" and {wuQ} "have a headache".

>Antonyms: pIv

{pIv} "be healthy"

>Homonyms:
>     rop (noun) - disease

Used in {ropyaH} "infirmary".



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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