[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SIr'am (noun)

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: SIr'am
Part of speech: noun
Definition: cork, phellem
Source: qep'a' 32 [2025]
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(qep'a' 2025 REQUEST):  "What {qorghwI'mey} are often made of on Earth."

"So the cork is the 'thing which does close the hole (of the bottle)' ... So the word for the cork is a {qorghwI'}." (MO interviewed by Lieven, 11/12/2013)

TREK NOTES:
  Bashir fires a cork from a champagne bottle at Falcon, Doctor Noah's agent who wears an eye patch, knocking him out cold. (DS9 "Our Man Bashir")

  O'Brien pulls the cork from a metal bottle of Klingon bloodwine, vintage 2301 ("A very good year for bloodwine" according to O'Brien; Worf judged it "Very smooth.") [DS9 "Image in the Sand"]

SEE:
qorghwI' 	cork; pacifier (n)
bal 		jug, jar, bottle (n)

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons