[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: buq

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word:   buq
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     bag, sack, pouch, pocket

Marc Okrand to Lieven L. Litaer (12/07/2010):

  [Maltz] thought more about it and said maybe another way
  to say pillow was {QongDaq buq} "bed pouch", but he said
  that could also apply to a sleeping bag. Perhaps a sleeping
  bag is {QongDaq buq'a'} and a pillow is {QongDaq buqHom}.
  The word {buq} could be bag, sack, pouch or even pocket.
  When clarity is needed, one could say, for example, 
  {yopwaH buq} "pants pouch" or {wep buq} "coat pouch" for
  "pants pocket" or "coat pocket," but when the context is
  clear, {buq} alone would suffice for pocket.

Later used in "TalkNow! Klingon":

  nuqDaq bIH leng buqmey'e' 
  Where are the suitcases? TNK

Cultural notes:

KGT 75f.:  A third category of Klingon instrument is the {SuSDeq}, the windbag or bellows type. A {SuSDeq} has a flexible bag, usually made of animal skin, which is alternately filled with and emptied of air. [...] For one form of {SusDeq}, the {may'ron}, the player stretches the bag out to fill it with air and squeezes it together to empty it while directing the flow of air by pressing buttons mounted on boards on either end of the bag, much like an accordion. [...] To alternately squeeze and stretch out the bag part of the {may'ron} is to {rey}. Another type of {SuSDeq}, the {DIron}, resembles and is played much like bagpipes. The verb that means squeeze the bag part of the {DIron}, usually with the elbow, is {qeb}.

During the Kot'baval Festival being celebrated at the Maranga IV outpost, Worf gave a street vendor a couple of coins (darseks?) for what appeared to be a bag of dried gagh. (TNG "Firstborn")


PUN: 
Pocket Books.  Cf. also {paq} "book"!


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons