[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'al'uqSur

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Thu Jan 9 08:27:16 PST 2025


Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, December 08, 2024

Klingon word: 'al'uqSur
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Luxor
Source: qepHom 2024
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AFAIK not used in a sentence.

SEE ALSO:
maSIr  			Egypt (GN) 
'eSqenDerIyya' 		Alexandria (GN) (qepHom 2024)
*maSIr bIQtIq   		Nile (GN) (i.e. "Egypt's river"]
'avrI'qa' 		Africa (GN)

roSqa'QeD  		archaeology (n) 
jItuj'ep 			mummy (n)
mIllogh ngutlh 		hieroglyph (n)
chIrgh  			temple (n)
DuHmor  		palace,  castle (n)
mol  			grave (n) [use for tomb, or perhaps *{mol qach}?]

And since I'm on an *{maSIr QeD} kick -- I know people who worked at the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (based at Chicago House in Luxor) :

'Impey 		pyramid [4-sided] (n) 

... although IIRC there are no large classic pyramids in Luxor, but much further north in Giza near Cairo.

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons




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