Noun
English: dictionary
German: Wƶrterbuch
Source: TKD
KLCP Level: 1
Notes
(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". [ā¦] 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'jĆ¢m* "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-Ź»Ivrit ha-yeshanah vĢ£eha-hĢ£adashah* (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*.)
Usage for mu'ghom
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