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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, September 22, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   luj
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:    lose,not win)

As used in canon:

lujpu' jIH 
I have failed. TKD

lujpu' jIH'e' 
I, and only I, have failed. TKD

bIlujlaHbe'chugh bIQaplaHbe' 
If you cannot fail, you cannot succeed. TKW
("If you cannot lose, you cannot win"; i.e. Nothing ventured, nothing gained).

wo' choqmeH may' DoHlu'chugh lujbe'lu' 
"ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat." TKW

Cultural notes:

KGT 165-66:  The slang expression is used in such constructions as {bIvonlu'pu'} ("You have failed completely"; literally, "You have been trapped"). In standard Klingon, the same idea may be expressed by saying {lujbej} ("certainly fail"), {lujchu'} ("fail perfectly"), or {lujqu'} ("really fail"), all based on {luj} ("fail"). Note that {luj} is also used to mean lose (as in "lose at a game"). To say "I lose" is {jIluj}; to say "I lose in a big way" is {jIlujqu'} or {jIlujchu'}

HQ 2.4:18:  To a Klingon, to win is to function perfectly. The opposite notion, lose, is commonly {luj}, also meaning 'fail'.


Don't confuse with the verb {chIl} "lose, misplace".

Related words:

Qap 		win (a competition, or a war) (v)
Quj  	play a game (v)
SuD 		gamble, take a chance (v)
qaD 		challenge (v)
'ov 		compete (v)
pe''egh 	keep score (v)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons