name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
Klingon
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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klĭng'ŏn
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/ˈklɪŋɒn/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: /ˈklɪŋɑn/
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US: /ˈkliŋɑn/
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homophone: cling-on
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rhymes with -ɪŋɒn
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CMU ARPABET: K L IH1 NG G AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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noun
Meaning 3
A member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on the strict observance of honor, loyalty, and combat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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History
Etymology
In many cases, from German Klingen, via Russian Клинген (Klingen) (many bearers in 1900s US censuses are recorded as being from Russia). Compare the various spellings of the related surname Klingon Smith (more commonly Klingensmith, Klingenschmitt, Klingenschmidt).
[Alt: Photograph of two people in Klingon costume] c. 1960s, from the Star Trek franchise, purportedly by Gene Roddenberry, named for Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan of the Los Angeles Police Department. In-universe, the name was a transcription of Klingon tlhIngan.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Klingon — the language
- Arabic: كْلِينْغُونِيَّة (klīnḡūniyya) — the language
- Bulgarian: клингонски (klingonski) — the language
- Catalan: klingon — the language
- Cherokee: ᏟᎦᎾ (tligana) — the language
- Chinese Mandarin: 克林貢語 /克林贡语 (Kèlíngòngyǔ) — the language
- Czech: klingonský — the language
- Czech: klingonština — the language
- Danish: klingonsk — the language
- Dutch: Klingon — the language
- Esperanto: klingona lingvo — the language
- Esperanto: la klingona — the language
- Finnish: klingon — the language
- French: klingon — the language
- German: Klingonisch — the language
- Greek: γλώσσα Κλίγκον (glóssa Klígkon) — the language
- Hebrew: קלינגונית (klingónit) — the language
- Hungarian: klingon — the language
- Indonesian: bahasa klingon — the language
- Irish: Tliongáinis — the language
- Italian: Klingon — the language
- Italian: Klingoniano — the language
- Japanese: クリンゴン語 (kuringongo) — the language
- Korean: 클링온어 (keulingoneo) — the language
- Marathi: क्लिंगॉन (kliṅgŏn) — the language
- Norwegian: klingonsk — the language
- Polish: język klingoński — the language
- Portuguese: klingon — the language
- Romanian: klingoniană — the language
- Russian: клингонский (klingonskij) — the language
- Serbo-Croatian: клингонски (klingonski) — the language
- Slovene: klingonski — the language
- Spanish: klingon — the language
- Swedish: klingonska — the language
- Turkish: Klingonca — the language
- Welsh: klingon — the language
- Chinese Mandarin: 克林貢 /克林贡 (kèlíngòng) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Czech: Klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Esperanto: klingono — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Finnish: klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- French: Klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- German: Klingone — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- German: Klingonin — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Greek: Κλίγκον (Klígkon) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Hungarian: klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Italian: klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Italian: klingoniano — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Italian: klingoniana — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Japanese: クリンゴン人 — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Japanese: クリンゴンじん (kuringon jin) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Korean: 클링온 (keulingon) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Marathi: क्लिंगॉन (kliṅgŏn) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Polish: Klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Polish: Klingonka — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Portuguese: klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Romanian: klingonian — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Russian: клингон (klingon) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Russian: клингонец (klingonec) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Russian: клингонка (klingonka) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Serbo-Croatian: клингонац (klingonac) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Serbo-Croatian: клингонка (klingonka) — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Swedish: klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe
- Turkish: Klingon — member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe