[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: taQbang

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, May 30, 2022

Klingon word: 	taQbang
Part of speech: 	noun
Definition: 	exhaust
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Apparently the matter/substance being exhausted/ejected.

SEE:
taQbang  	urine,  fecal matter (n. slang)
  - often used with {vuj} "expel, eject" (v) (qep’a’ 2016).
 
(Kauderwelsch Klingonisch in re “going to the bathroom” [p.109]):  {taQbang ghIm} is the basic structure. You can, of course, substitute {turmIq} ["urine "] or {qeQ} ["fecal matter"] in for {taQbang} if that's what you really want to say. So you can say things like {DaH jImej. turmIq vIghImnIS}.  Maltz said Klingons don't have euphemisms for this sort of thing. On the other hand, there is a slang expression or idiom that's used from time to time, though mostly (but hardly always) by or to kids: {qIvon belmoH} (as in {DaH jImej. qIvonwIj vIbelnISmoH} and the like). You might ask a child who's a little jittery {belHa''a' qIvonlIj?}. Most people say {qIvon}, though some say {qIvonDu'}. Maltz says he has no idea why this expression has this slang meaning, given what he knows about his own {qIvonDu'}. As with idioms in general, you can't substitute one word for another (unless you're playing word games). So saying something like {qIvonwIj vIQuchnISmoH} could only refer to making your {qIvon} happy, assuming it's possible to do such a thing.

SEE ALSO:
ghImwI' 	exhaust [the device?] (n)
yIb 		vent (n)
pugh 		dregs (n)

ghIm  		exile (v)  [also exhaust?]
tlhuch 		exhaust (v)
nIj 		leak (v)
Qoy' 		spill (v)

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