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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word:   ghab
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     meat from midsection of animal

  Hom Hutlhbogh ghab 
  ghab that lacks bone. KGT

  ghab tun
  fillet ("soft {ghab}") KGT

KGT 87:  Large animals are usually chopped into pieces, sometimes with attention paid to which piece is which... sometimes not (the {ghab}, for example, is just a chunk of the midsection of an animal, including any organs that may have remained attached after the carving).

KGT 27:  The word {ghab}, however, which refers to any chunk of the midsection of an animal, has slightly varying meanings depending on region. In most of the empire, including the First City, {ghab} is rather inclusive: basically, whatever was chopped off the animal as a single piece, with or without bones or internal organs. In some areas, {ghab} is never applied to a cut of meat lacking bones. Instead, the phrase {ghab tun} (perhaps translatable as "fillet", though literally, "soft {ghab}") is sometimes heard. The same concept would be expressed in most of the Empire, including by speakers of {ta' Hol}, by a longer phrase: {Hom Hutlhbogh ghab} ("{ghab} that lacks bone)".

KGT 88:  A mixture of animal parts is {Daghtuj}, regardless of whether the parts are from the same type of animal.

KGT 83:  the gastronomically uneducated might consider Klingon food to be nothing but small animals (still alive) or chunks of barely dead animals thrown together indiscriminately with odoriferous herbs

KGT 99:  A diner transfers a portion to his or her plate ... if one is available, by simply grabbing the desired quantity of food with a hand... If necessary, two hands may be used to break off ({wItlh}) a slab of the desired fare.

Related words:

Ha'DIbaH 		animal, meat (n) 


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons