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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word: bot
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: prevent, block, prohibit

As used in canon:

Dubotchugh yIpummoH 
If it's in your way, knock it down. TKW

HuDqIjDaq | qet | ghIq Hechaj bot QIStaq 
Running | Over the Black Hills | Until Kri'stak blocks their path. (PB p.??)

qarDaSQa'Daq ruDelya' rop'a' Hergh qengbogh yo' Dabot. 
Intercept Rudellian plague relief convoy to Cardassian Union. MKE

lojmItDaj veghta'DI' jubbe'wI' | yInqa'meH chegh 'e' botnIS qotar | qeylIS HoHmeH qotar qeylIS SamnIS 
Still, Kotar cannot let a mortal | Pass his gates and return alive, | Kahless must be hunted down and killed. (PB, p.122-23)

yab matlh muvchuqghach Sorgh vay' 'e' vIbotjaj. 
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. (Sonnet 116)

Related words:

botjan  	shields (force field on ship) (n)
le'mIS 	blockade (n)

waQ 		obstruct (v)
tuch 	forbid (v)

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons