Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, November 23, 2025

Klingon word: Selrach
Part of speech: noun
Definition: ladder
Source: qep'a' 32 [2025]

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(qep’a’ 2025):  This is the general term for any type of ladder.

(KGT 29):  the word for stairs or stairway in most of the Empire is letlh. One type of letlh is a choghvat, the stairway leading to and from the doorway of a ship. In a couple of dialects in the Mekro'vak (meqro'vaq) region, however, letlh refers only to the stairway connected to a ship, while ngep'oS is any other kind of stairway but not one used to enter or exit a ship.

SEE:

Selrach vaD                     rope ladder (n) (qep’a’ 2025)
(qep’a’ 2025):  rope ladder or similar

wIlHay Selrach               movable [hinged, A-shaped] ladder (n) (qep’a’ 2025)
(qep’a’ 2025):   a movable  ladder with two legs forming an A shape

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