[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: wab

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: wab
Part of speech: noun
Definition: sound, noise
Source: SKNG:03FEB1999
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'arlogh wab Qoylu'pu'? 
How many times has someone heard the sound? 
How many times has the sound been heard? (st.k 2/1999)

Daq SumHa'vo' wab Huj Qoylu' 
Strange sounds come from afar (PB, paq'raD 1:13)

DoDaj vItlh law' wab Do vItlh puS 
its speed was higher than the speed of sound (NASM; sic with a space)

 yuQDaq Dat rISbogh wabvam Qoylu'. 
The signature sound of the planet, heard everywhere on the surface. (DSC/LLsub "Si Vis Pacem...")

(De'vID < MO, 2/17/2018):  TKD glosses QIch as speech (vocal sounds). The notation (vocal sounds) is intended to denote that 'speech' here means the phenomenon of speech as opposed to an address or oration - that's SoQ. So QIch doesn't refer to individual speech sounds or speech sounds collectively. An individual speech sound is QIch wab and speech sounds collectively are QIch wabmey. Pronunciation could be QIch wab Ho'DoS, more literally (but awkwardly) 'speech-sound manner, speech-sound technique'." 

(De'vID < MO, 2/25/2018):  "An accent might be QIch wab Ho'DoS Sar pronunciation variety. A regional accent would then be Sep QIch wab Ho'DoS or Sep QIch wab Sar or Sep QIch wab Ho'DoS Sar. (Dialect, by the way, would be Hol Sar; regional dialect is Sep Hol Sar.)" 

(MO, qepHom 2016):  "As a spelling convention, wab Do speed of sound is written as two words. When used as a measurement term ("Mach"), it's written as one word (wabDo). The pronunciation (and, for that matter, meaning) is the same." 

Cf. http://klingon.wiki/En/Sounds

SEE:
QIch wab 		individual speech sound;  phoneme 
wab Do  		speed of sound (n) (NASM)
wab HevwI'  		radio (n) T
wab labwI'  		radio service, broadcaster, radio transmitter (n)
wab labwI' jan  		radio transmitter (device) (n)
wab naQ  		vowel (n) 
wab poD   		consonant (n)
wab qoSta'  		[audiotape] (n) 
wab qoSta' 'aplo'  	cassette  (n) [audiocassette] 
wab ta  			audio (sound clip) (n) [sound file, sound recording]
wabDo  		Mach (n) (NASM)

SEE ALSO:
QoQ 			music (n)
bom 			song, chant (n)
ghogh 			voice (n)
QIch 			speech [i.e. vocal sounds] (n)

bobDar 			splash [sound] (n)
lu'lap 			beep noise (n)

tlhen 			sound as, produce the sound of [with sound nouns] (v)
qol 			pronounce (v)

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons