Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, September 16, 2019 Klingon word: mu'ghom Part of speech: noun Definition: dictionary Source: TKD _______________________________________________ AFAIK never used in a Klingon sentence. (De'vID < MO, 2/17/2018): For purposes of boQwI’ [i.e. De'vID's computer translation program], "definition" would be {jIyweS} "translation, gloss". It’s not a definition like in an English-only (or any-language-only) dictionary (that explains/describes a word’s meaning); it’s a quick tag to give you an idea of what the word means. For "entry", Maltz suggests {ghu’lIS} "item in a list". […] Neither {Hal} nor {mung} would be "source" in the literary sense (which I take to mean where a particular entry in boQwI’ comes from). This would be {nompuq} "authority, evidence, attestation, reference, citation". TREK TRIVIA: (Lieven, 6/30/2014): Don't forget the tiny detail (not seen) in Star Trek VI: When Uhura was searching her Klingon books to speak with the Morska Post, one of the books had a title "Okrand's Dictionary of Klingon". Since it was a lot bigger than our TKD, we may assume that there will be one or more addendums in the coming three hundred years... SEE ALSO: mu'tay' vocabulary (n) jIyweS translation, gloss (n) ghu’lIS item in a list (n) nompuq authority, evidence, attestation, reference, citation (n) PUN: Cf. {mugh} "translate" (coincidence or pun?). Cf. also Arabic *mu'jâm* "dictionary". (Another coincidence?) THOUGHT OF THE DAY: "He whom God wishes to severely punish, He decrees upon him to be a dictionary compiler. The life of the compiler is like living in Hell." (Eliezer Ben Yehudah, 1858-1922) Beh Yehudah's magnum opus - *Milon ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit ha-yeshanah ṿeha-ḥadashah* (Complete dictionary of ancient and modern Hebrew) - was published over the course of 50 years in 17 volumes, i.e. more than 8,000 double-columned pages. It is said that the very first word he invented was the term for "dictionary" *milon*.) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons