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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Da'ar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Apr 11 10:22:18 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:22:06 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, April 11, 2014
>
> Klingon word: Da'ar
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: Dahar (master)
> Source: IKS Gorkon trilogy: Book One: A Good Day to Die
AFAIK never used by Okrand.
A Dahar Master is a Klingon warrior who has reached a legendary status among his peers and subordinates. Kor, Koloth, and Kang were all Dahar Masters. "There's a drunken Klingon in my holding cell who must be a hundred years old, singing battle songs. Even his best friend [Koloth], who's probably a hundred and fifty years old, won't have anything to do with him, so I get the pleasure of listening to his repertoire. Kor, Dahar Master of the Klingons!"
(Odo to Kira, DS9 "Blood Oath"; cf. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Dahar_master )
"I think Okrand didn't mean {pIn'a'} for Master in this sense... one who is knowledgeable in a field. He mentioned once, I think, that he's looking for a better term for this meaning." [~mark]
Similar words:
moQbara' *mok'bara* (martial arts form) (n)
tonSaw' "Klingon fighting" (n)
mI' exercise, do calisthenics, do martial arts movements (v)
Suv fight (v)
HIgh fight dirty (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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