(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*.)