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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue May 8 10:11:15 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 14:11:05 +0000
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> Klingon word: ghab
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: meat from midsection of animal
Hom Hutlhbogh ghab
ghab that lacks bone. KGT
ghab tun
fillet ("soft {ghab}") KGT
KGT 87: Large animals are usually chopped into pieces, sometimes with attention paid to which piece is which... sometimes not (the {ghab}, for example, is just a chunk of the midsection of an animal, including any organs that may have remained attached after the carving).
KGT 27: The word {ghab}, however, which refers to any chunk of the midsection of an animal, has slightly varying meanings depending on region. In most of the empire, including the First City, {ghab} is rather inclusive: basically, whatever was chopped off the animal as a single piece, with or without bones or internal organs. In some areas, {ghab} is never applied to a cut of meat lacking bones. Instead, the phrase {ghab tun} (perhaps translatable as "fillet", though literally, "soft {ghab}") is sometimes heard. The same concept would be expressed in most of the Empire, including by speakers of {ta' Hol}, by a longer phrase: {Hom Hutlhbogh ghab} ("{ghab} that lacks bone)".
KGT 88: A mixture of animal parts is {Daghtuj}, regardless of whether the parts are from the same type of animal.
KGT 83: the gastronomically uneducated might consider Klingon food to be nothing but small animals (still alive) or chunks of barely dead animals thrown together indiscriminately with odoriferous herbs
KGT 99: A diner transfers a portion to his or her plate ... if one is available, by simply grabbing the desired quantity of food with a hand... If necessary, two hands may be used to break off ({wItlh}) a slab of the desired fare.
Related words:
Ha'DIbaH animal, meat (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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