Ferengi language
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The Ferengi language is the language spoken by the Ferengi people throughout the Ferengi language.
When written, the Ferengi language branches out in several directions. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Due to Ferenginar's damp climate, there are one hundred and seventy-eight words for rain. Some of these worlds include "glebbening", "pradooshing" and "thloppering". Conversely, the Ferengi have no word for "crisp". (DS9 episode: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...", DS9 novel: The 34th Rule, DS9 short story: "... Loved I Not Honor More")
There are fifty-seven separate words for customer in the language. One of them has a second definition, meaning "river sludge". (DS9 novel: The 34th Rule)
"Frinx" is an expletive in the language and has been used by Ferengi such as Quark, Nog, Base, Pharh and Bralik. (DS9 novels: The Fall of Terok Nor, The War of the Prophets, Inferno, The Left Hand of Destiny, TTN novel: Orion's Hounds)
The Ferengi have several words for "no", in Quark's words "depending on how much negotiation it will take to change your mind". (DS9 novel: Time's Enemy)
With their universal translators not working, Quark Rom and Nog spoke in the Ferengi language while on Earth in 1947. (DS9 episode: "Little Green Men")
[edit] Other Ferengi words
- Bena: underflooring. (DS9 novel: Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed)
- Gooblatrupyo: Aliens, Bank accounts without brains. (DS9 novel: Legends of the Ferengi)
- Moogie: Mother
- DaiMon
- Nagus
- Oo-mox: a sensual stroking of the earlobes
- skritz
- Ferengi language word of uncertain meaning used by the Ferengi named Pharh in 2375 when he was on Boreth. (DS9 novel: The Left Hand of Destiny)
[edit] Additional references
[edit] Connections
- Ferengi language article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
