Klingon

See also klingon

English

Etymology

From the Star Trek franchise, purportedly by Gene Roddenberry, named for Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan of the Los Angeles Police Department

Pronunciation

• enPR: klĭng'ŏn, IPA: /ˈklɪŋɒn/, X-SAMPA: /"klINQn/
• IPA: /ˈklɪŋɑn/, X-SAMPA: /"klINAn/

Noun

Klingon (plural Klingons)

1. (countable) Member of a fictional alien warrior race depicted as having distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on strict observance of honour, loyalty, and combat.

Translations

member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克林貢 cmn(cmn), 克林贡 cmn(cmn) (Kèlíngòng)

• Czech: Klingon (cs) m
• Esperanto: klingono eo(eo)
• Finnish: klingon fi(fi)
• French: Klingon fr(fr) m
• German: Klingone de(de) m, Klingonin de(de) f

• Greek: Κλίγκον el(el) (klíngon) n
• Japanese: クリンゴン人 ja(ja), クリンゴンじん ja(ja) (kuringon jin)
• Romanian: klingonian ro(ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian: клингонац sh(sh) (klingonac) m, клингонка sh(sh) (klingonka) f
• Turkish: Klingon tr(tr)

Proper noun

Klingon

1. An artificial language created by Marc Okrand, first appearing in a Star Trek episode in 1967.

Translations

the language

• Afrikaans: Klingon
• Arabic: كلينغونية (klinghūniya) f
• Bulgarian: клингонски (klingonski) m
• Catalan: klingon m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克林貢語 (cmn), 克林贡语 (cmn) (Kèlíngòngyǔ)

• Czech: klingonský m, klingonština (cs) f
• Danish: klingonsk (da)
• Dutch: Klingon (nl)
• Esperanto: klingona lingvo (eo), la klingona (eo)
• Finnish: klingon (fi)
• French: klingon (fr) m
• German: Klingonisch (de) n
• Greek: γλώσσα Κλίγκον (glóssa klíngon) f
• Hebrew: קלינגונית (he) (klingónit) f
• Indonesian: bahasa klingon

• Irish: Tliongáinis (ga) f
• Italian: klingon (it) m
• Japanese: クリンゴン語 (ja) (クリンゴンご, kuringongo)
• Lojban: klingon.
• Norwegian: klingonsk (no)
• Polish: klingoński m
• Portuguese: klingon (pt)
• Romanian: klingoniană f
• Russian: клингонский (klingonskij) m
• Serbo-Croatian: клингонски (sh) (klingonski) m
• Slovene: klingonski m
• Spanish: klingon (es) m
• Swedish: klingonska (sv)
• Turkish: Klingonca (tr)
• Welsh: klingon (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Latin: klingonski m

See also

• Klingon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Qapla'
• Appendix:Klingon

External links

• Klingon Language Institute
• http://www.klingon.org/
• Klingon Wikia
• Linguist List entry for Klingon, code tlh
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