[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: cha'

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 21, 2011
> 
> Klingon word:     cha'
> Part of speech:   verb
> Definition:       show, display (picture)

As used in canon:

  wIy yIcha' 
  Show the tactical display! TKD/KCD

  HaSta yIcha' 
  Show the visual display! TKD

  DoS cha' 
  Display target! (Clipped) ST:MP

  wIy cha' 
  Display tactical! (Clipped) ST:MP

  mIvDaq pogh cha' 
  display a glove on (one's) helmet
  (idiom: a matter has been postponed or rescheduled) KGT

  mIvwIjDaq poghlIj vIcha' 
  I display your glove on my helmet 
  (implies that the postponed matter is between the speaker
   and the addressee) KGT

  tlhIngan Dujmey law'qu' SommeyDaq batlh cha'lu' 
  [It] has been emblazoned upon the hulls of countless Klingon
  starships. SP1

  motlh ray' luSamlaHmeH De' Qatlh cha' tlhIngan Duj jIH'a' 
  The main viewer on a Klingon ship is usually overlaid with a
  complex target acquisition grid. SP3

Related nouns:

{HaSta} "visual display (on monitor)" 
{wIy}   "tactical display (on monitor)")
{bey'}  "ceremonial display"

Related verbs:

{Hotlh} "project, put on (screen)"
{magh}  "indicate, reveal"
{'agh}  "show, demonstrate, display"
{'ang}  "show, reveal"

Homonyms:

{cha'}  two (num.)



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons