[Tlhingan-hol] Close female friend of a male?

[Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh]

ghItlhpu' naHQun, jatlh:
> We have chaj and maqoch for close friends of the same gender, but no words for close friends of the opposite gender.> How would one communicate a comparable closeness?

I ran into exactly this problem in translating The Man in the Panther Skin, and rendered it with {jupoywI'} "my beloved friend".

> Or do Klingons just not have these types of friendships?

I don't see why they wouldn't. English does things very similarly to Klingon: a man's "buddy" or "mate" is almost always a man, and conversely a woman's "girlfriend" (when she's not using that term to refer to her romantic partner) is always a woman. That doesn't put restrictions on what kinds of friendships one is able to have, or with whom.

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