[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mIp (noun)

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, September 21, 2025

Klingon word: mIp
Part of speech: noun
Definition: wealth, richness
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DojneS mIplIj 
Your wealth is impressive, your honor.  (PK)

(KGT 5):  Some houses (that is, lineages) are more wealthy and powerful than others. 

(KGT 36):  Klingon society is a stratified one. That is, there are clear distinctions between those with great wealth and influence and those with little or none. ... Some houses are particularly wealthy, controlling vast lands by means of armed forces loyal to the particular house.

SEE:
mIp  		be rich (v) 

(qep'a' 2021 Q&A) : 
   Q: 	Can {mIp} be rich be used for minerals in the ground, or only people?
   A: 	I would say that it refers to people and money and stuff like that. 
   Q: 	[so not the rich deposit of gemstones?] 
   A: 	That's a different word, right. Well, that's confusing because gemstones are 
	worth money, but there's a different word for "rich soil" or something like that.
	[...] The land isn't rich; after you do something with it, the person may be rich.

[Do we know what that different word or expression is?"]

TREK NOTES:
  In 2153 the Klingon Judiciary placed a bounty of 9,000 *darseks* for the capture of escaped convict Jonathan Archer, dead or alive, which was considered "a fortune" by the Tellarite bounty hunter Skalaar.  (Although the Klingon Goroth cheated Skalaar and only paid 6,000 when he took Archer away.)  [ENT "Bounty"]

SEE ALSO:
Huch		money (n)
qav'ap 		sum (of money), rent (n)
qengHoD 	treasure, booty, plunder, swag, loot (n)
pop 		reward (n)
tev 		prize (n)
van'a' 		award (n)

wagh 		be expensive (v)
Qej 		cherish, value (v)
lo'laH 		be valuable (v)
qutlh 		be cheap (v)

F. Scott Fitzgerald once told Ernest Hemingway, "The rich are different than you and I."  Hemingway replied, "Yes, they have more money."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." (Jane Austen, opening line of _Pride and Prejudice_)

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons