Noun
English: elephant
German: Elefant
Japanese: č±”
Source: qep'a' 24
Category: animals
KLCP Level: 3
Notes
"I recently had to translate the text for a children's show where the main characters are a mouse and an elephant." (Lieven, 3/21/2017)
"I think Qa'Hom is okay for mouse. And Maltz wasn't aware of any native Klingon elephant-like animal. So go with a Klingon version of Federation Standard. How about 'e'levan?" (Lieven < MO, 3/2017)
"This refers to the Terran animal, not some similar Klingon animal - if there is such a thing - and the word is obviously just taken from Federation Standard, so it's not so much a Klingon word as it is a Klingonization of a Federation Standard word." (qep'a' 2017 New Words booklet)
(HolQeD 4.2 p.5-6): ... that old Groucho Marx joke, you know: "I just shot an elephant in my pajamas... and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know." You can say that in Klingon, no problem; they'll get the joke. There's not many jokes you can get to translate into Klingon, but that one would work.
SEE ALSO:
nIvnav pajamas (n)
bach shoot (v)
Usage for 'e'levan
There is no usage for this word in the database.
