Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghab tun

[Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, June 13, 2015
> 
> Klingon word: ghab tun
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: meat from midsection of animal, no bones (regional)

KGT 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. 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). The expression {ghab tun} would probably not be used by most.

KGT 87:  Large animals are usually chopped into pieces, sometimes with attention paid to which piece is which... 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).

KGT 83:  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 99:  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 88:  A mixture of animal parts is {Daghtuj}, regardless of whether the parts are from the same type of animal.

SEE ALSO:
ghab  		meat from midsection of animal (n)
Ha'DIbaH 		animal, meat (n)
chor 			belly, midsection (n)
HajDob 		leg (served as food) (n)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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