[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: parHa' (verb)

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: parHa'
Part of speech: verb
Definition: like
Source: TKD
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(st.k 3/02/1998):  {par} "dislike", for example, is probably the more neutral or expected reaction of a Klingon to someone else; {parHa'} "like" (or, more revealingly, "not dislike" or "undislike" or "misdislike" or even "disdislike" [?!], since it's made up of {par} "dislike" plus {-Ha'}, the negative suffix implying that something is undone or done wrongly) is a modification (an undoing?) of this expected reaction. ... the only (known) way to express the opposite of {par} "dislike" is by adding a negative suffix to {par}.  Unlike {QuchHa'} "be unhappy" and {'IQ} "be sad", there's no choice when it comes to like; you've got to use a word based on {par}:  {parHa'}.  It appears that the only kind of like there is is the "undoing" or "misapplication" of dislike.  (Of course, you could also say {parbe'} "like" or, more literally, "not dislike", using the negative suffix {-be'} not; but {parbe'} is also based on {par}.  {parHa'} is heard more frequently than {parbe'}, however, and this may be a hint at the usual way a Klingon looks at things.)  Interestingly (and bolstering the idea that dislike is a default), there's also the word {muS} "hate" (which is presumably stronger somehow than {par} "dislike").  It also has no known opposite except for the suffixed forms:  {muSHa'} "dis-hate" or "unhate"; {muSbe'} "not hate".

AFAIK neither {par} or {parHa'} have been used by Okrand in a sentence.

SEE:
qabelmoH'a' 	"Do I please you?" (i.e. "Do you like me?") (PK) 

SEE ALSO:
tIv 		enjoy (v)

TREK NOTES:
   "... I don't like bullies, and I don't like threats, and I don't like you, Culluh." (Janeway to Culluh, First Maje of the Kazon-Nistrim, VOY "State of Flux")

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons