[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QIS

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: QIS
Part of speech: noun
Definition: wavy-bladed knife
Source: KGT
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AFAIK not used in a sentence.

(KGT 62f.):  Some other knives are the wavy-bladed {QIS}, the slender-bladed {ghonDoq}, and the {tajtIq}, a knife with a particularly long blade that is used almost as if it were a sword. A knife that is relatively safe, both for user and intended victim, is the smaller {naH taj} (literally, "vegetable knife" or "fruit knife," a kind of knife used for training but also for cutting parts off of growing plants). 

PUN:  
The wavy-bladed *kris* (also spelled *keris*, *krys*, and so on) is a traditional dagger known all over the South Eastern Asia (Indonesia, the Malay archipelago, etc.). "I believe the curved weapon made from the tooth of a worm in the novel Dune is a *crys* knife, too." (Qov)

TREK NOTES:
  The *nisroh* is a *kris*-shaped ceremonial dagger used by merchants on Tilonus IV. Worf tried to train Riker, who would be judged by his prowess with the blade during his undercover operation on the planet. (TNG "Frame of Mind")

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