"bat'leth" meaning in All languages combined

See bat'leth on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbæt.lɪθ/, /ˈbæt.lɛθ/ Forms: bat'leths [plural]
Etymology: From Klingon betleH, short for batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|tlh|betleH}} Klingon betleH, {{m|tlh|batlh'etlh||sword of honor}} batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} bat'leth (plural bat'leths)
  1. (science fiction) A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek. Wikipedia link: bat'leth Categories (topical): Science fiction, Star Trek, Weapons

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for bat'leth meaning in All languages combined (4.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tlh",
        "3": "betleH"
      },
      "expansion": "Klingon betleH",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tlh",
        "2": "batlh'etlh",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sword of honor"
      },
      "expansion": "batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Klingon betleH, short for batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bat'leths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bat'leth (plural bat'leths)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Star Trek",
          "orig": "en:Star Trek",
          "parents": [
            "American fiction",
            "Film",
            "Science fiction",
            "Television",
            "Fiction",
            "United States",
            "Entertainment",
            "Mass media",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Broadcasting",
            "Artistic works",
            "North America",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Genres",
            "Telecommunications",
            "Art",
            "America",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "Earth",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Weapons",
          "orig": "en:Weapons",
          "parents": [
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 November 5, “Reunion”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Worf (Michael Dorn)",
          "text": "It is a bat'leth. It belonged to my father... It has been in our family for ten generations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 25, Jack Loftus, “U.K. Knife Amnesty Program Turns Up Klingon Bat’leth, No Sign of Worf”, in Gizmodo Australia, archived from the original on 2016-03-04",
          "text": "The U.K. is looking to clean up its streets with a knife amnesty program, so you can imagine their surprise when a Klingon, er, excuse me, a Klingon fan, turned in a replica Bat’leth over the weekend.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February 4, Kieran Nicholson, “Klingon sword used in two Colorado Springs heists”, in Denver Post",
          "text": "Officers searched the area but didn't find the robber or the weapon, which was described as a \"bat'leth.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 31, “The Zarnecki Incursion” (15:59), in The Big Bang Theory, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Howard Wolowitz, Sheldon Cooper, and Leonard Hofstadter (Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Johnny Galecki)",
          "text": "Howard: Why did you bring that?\nSheldon: No weapon strikes more fear into a man's heart than a Klingon bat'leth.\nLeonard: OK, let's get clear on something. We just gonna tell this guy to transfer all your stuff back into your account and then be on our way. No one's bat'lething anybody.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek."
      ],
      "id": "en-bat'leth-en-noun-cRMEoo2y",
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "Klingon",
          "Klingon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction) A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "bat'leth"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæt.lɪθ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæt.lɛθ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bat'leth"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tlh",
        "3": "betleH"
      },
      "expansion": "Klingon betleH",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tlh",
        "2": "batlh'etlh",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sword of honor"
      },
      "expansion": "batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Klingon betleH, short for batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bat'leths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bat'leth (plural bat'leths)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Klingon",
        "English terms derived from Klingon",
        "English terms derived from Star Trek",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Science fiction",
        "en:Star Trek",
        "en:Weapons"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 November 5, “Reunion”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Worf (Michael Dorn)",
          "text": "It is a bat'leth. It belonged to my father... It has been in our family for ten generations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 25, Jack Loftus, “U.K. Knife Amnesty Program Turns Up Klingon Bat’leth, No Sign of Worf”, in Gizmodo Australia, archived from the original on 2016-03-04",
          "text": "The U.K. is looking to clean up its streets with a knife amnesty program, so you can imagine their surprise when a Klingon, er, excuse me, a Klingon fan, turned in a replica Bat’leth over the weekend.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February 4, Kieran Nicholson, “Klingon sword used in two Colorado Springs heists”, in Denver Post",
          "text": "Officers searched the area but didn't find the robber or the weapon, which was described as a \"bat'leth.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 March 31, “The Zarnecki Incursion” (15:59), in The Big Bang Theory, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Howard Wolowitz, Sheldon Cooper, and Leonard Hofstadter (Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Johnny Galecki)",
          "text": "Howard: Why did you bring that?\nSheldon: No weapon strikes more fear into a man's heart than a Klingon bat'leth.\nLeonard: OK, let's get clear on something. We just gonna tell this guy to transfer all your stuff back into your account and then be on our way. No one's bat'lething anybody.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ],
        [
          "Klingon",
          "Klingon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction) A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "bat'leth"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæt.lɪθ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbæt.lɛθ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bat'leth"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.