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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word:   Qaw'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     destroy

Used in canon:

nuQaw'laH 
He can destroy us. TKD

Qaw''eghpu' 
He destroyed himself. TKD

nuQaw'qu'be' 
They have not finished us off. TKD

not Soj QaQ Qaw' tlhInganpu' 
Klingons never destroy good food. CK

noH QapmeH wo' Qaw'lu'chugh yay chavbe'lu' 
"Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory" TKW

SuyDuj DaQaw'chugh qagh DaHoH 
If you destroy the merchant ship, you kill gagh. KGT

romuluSnganpu' Dujmey DIQaw'pu'; pe'vIl DIbI'chu'pu' 
We destroyed the Romulans' ships all at once. KGT

HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu' 
[This ship was demonstrated on Stardate 9521.6 but it was destroyed.] S33
 (untranslated on card)

jagh Duj DaQaw' 'ach pagh qama' Datlhapqa' 
Destroy enemy vessel without retrieving prisoners. MKE

Related words:

{ghor} 		break (v)
{pej} 		demolish (v)
{chenHa'moH} 	destroy [something] (v)
{Sang} 		obliterate (v)
{QIH} 		damage, cause damage (v)

{QIH} 		damage, destruction (n)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons