English
Qapla'
Qapla' comes from Klingon Qapla' ‘success’.
- KlingonmodernQapla'‘success’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- KlingonmodernQapla'‘success’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985same form
Earliest quotation: 1985, Marc Okrand, The Klingon Dictionary: “success (n) Qapla'”.
Every English word from Klingon Qapla'
Today it means
intj A phrase said to wish somebody good fortune, particularly fortune in some form of honourable battle.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Klingon Qapla' / Qapla'