[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bIghHa'

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: bIghHa'
Part of speech: noun
Definition: prison, jail
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bIghHa'Daq yIghoS 
Go to jail! TKD

bIghHa' yIjaH 
Go to jail! MKE

SIbI' bIghHa' yIghoS. "GO" yIjuSQo'. 
Warp to jail. Warp directly to jail. Do not pass "GO". MKE

bIghHa'Daq ghaHtaH qama''e' 
The prisoner is in the prison. KGT

bIghHa'Daq. Such neH 
In jail. Just visiting. MKE

bIghHa' DamejDI' pagh QaS yInob 
Get out of jail free. MKE

bISuvtaHvIS qarDaS bIghHa' peQ botjan Daveghchu' 
Fight your way beyond magnetic shield of Cardassian prison. MKE

PUN:  "big house"

SEE ALSO:
qama' 		prisoner (n)
jav 		prisoner [slang] (n)
ghan’Iq 		police force (n)
ghan’Iq yaS 	police officer (n)
'avwI' 		guard (n)
mo' 		cage  (n)
'oy'naQ		painstik (n)

qop  		arrest (v)
jon 		capture (v)
quch 		kidnap (v)

TREK NOTES:
  Painstiks are used by Klingon guards/bailiffs to control prisoners in the jail. (ENT "Judgment")

  "You can't turn me over to the Klingons. They don't just imprison you… Do you know what the punishment is for fraud? … Perhaps you could send me to a Federation rehabilitation colony instead." (Yranac, [a terrified Yridian who had twelve outstanding arrest warrants for fraud and petty theft in the Klingon Empire], TNG "Gambit Pt. I")

  “They have us caged up like animals! … A Klingon would rather die than be held captive.” (Worf, DS9 “Till Death Do Us Part”)

  "For you, this ship is a prison." (Kirk to Lokai, TOS "Let that Be Your Last Battlefield")

  The Romulans called their brig "the security room". (TOS "The Enterprise Incident")

LITERARY QUOTES (SUITABLE FOR TRANSLATION)
  “The most anxious man in a prison is the governor [i.e. warden].” (Bernard Shaw)

  “In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.” (Henry David Thoreau)

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Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
    Please contribute relevant vocabulary from recent qep’a’mey 
    or qepHommey. I’ve fallen woefully behind in updating my files.