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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tera' peb'ot

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gaerfindel)
Wed Nov 14 15:25:01 2012

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:24:34 -0500
From: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
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On 11/14/2012 10:11 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 14, 2012
>>
>> Klingon word:   tera' peb'ot
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition:     cucumber
> AFAIK never used in canon.
>
> This is the only type of Earth {peb'ot} in the TalkNow! vocabulary.
>   
> KGT 93f.:  It is also not unusual to {HaH} (marinate) or {roghmoH} (ferment) various sorts of {naH} (fruit, vegetable). One common dish is a torpedo-shaped fruit called {peb'ot}, which is soaked in a {chanDoq} (marinade). The fully marinated {peb'ot} is called a {Hurgh}.
And I suppose a pickle might be described as a {tera' peb'ot rogh(pu')}, 
qar'a'?

~quljIb

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