Klingon

See also: klingon

English

Two Klingons

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^(key): /ˈklɪŋɒn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈklɪŋɑn/, /ˈkliŋɑn/

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／克林贡 (zh) (kèlíngòng), 克林贡 (Kèlíngòng)

• Czech: Klingon 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) n
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• Hungarian: klingon (hu)
• Japanese: クリンゴン人 ja(ja), クリンゴンじん ja(ja) (kuringon jin)
• Portuguese: klingon m or f
• Romanian: klingonian ro(ro) m
• Russian: клингон m (klingon), клингонец m (klingonec), клингонка f (klingonka)
• 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.

Synonyms

• Klingonese

Translations

the language

• Afrikaans: Klingon (af)
• Arabic: كْلِينْغُونِيَّة f (klīnḡūniyya)
• Bulgarian: клингонски m (klingonski)
• Catalan: klingon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克林貢語／克林贡语 (zh) (Kèlíngòngyǔ), 克林贡语 (Kèlíngòngyǔ)

• Czech: klingonský m, klingonština (cs) f
• Danish: klingonsk
• Dutch: Klingon (nl)
• Esperanto: klingona lingvo, la klingona
• Finnish: klingon (fi)
• French: klingon (fr) m
• German: Klingonisch (de) n
• Greek: γλώσσα Κλίγκον f (glóssa Klígkon)
• Hebrew: קלינגונית f (klingónit)
• Hungarian: klingon (hu)
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• Indonesian: bahasa klingon
• Irish: Tliongáinis f
• Italian: klingon (it) m
• Japanese: クリンゴン語 (クリンゴンご, kuringongo)
• Norwegian: klingonsk
• Polish: klingoński (pl) m
• Portuguese: klingon
• Romanian: klingoniană f
• Russian: клингонский m (klingonskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: клингонски m (klingonski)
• Slovene: klingonski m
• Spanish: klingon m
• Swedish: klingonska (sv)
• Turkish: Klingonca (tr)
• Welsh: klingon

See also

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

Further reading

• Klingon Language Institute
• http://www.klingon.org/
• Klingon Wikia
• Template:Linguist List
• [1]

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Afrikaans

Noun

Klingon (uncountable)

1. Klingon (language)