Dwarvish dictionary

A list of words and phrases from the Dwarvish language.

A

 * ae: "gold"
 * aelin: "gold-work"
 * agland: "sword"
 * aetharn: "gold lust"
 * alagh: "battle-glory, valor"
 * arantym: an edible fungus known to humans as ripplebark.
 * arau: "great, huge, gigantic"
 * arauglor: "ocean, sea"
 * Araurilcaurak: "Great pillar cavern"
 * Arausamman: "Great Friend", a term of respect.
 * arglar: "to butcher"

B

 * barak: "backbone, strength, shield"
 * bedorn: "disbelief, lies, mistakes, exaggeration, distortion."
 * beldarak: "treachery"
 * burakrin: "way through, passage"

C

 * calass: "thief, miscreant, untrustworthy person"
 * calassabrak: "the flawed who aren't to be trusted" Calassabrak were also duergar who were dishonored and shunned.
 * caradhak (ka-RAD-ack): illithid or mind flayer
 * caradhaker (ka-RAD-ack-er): "mindstalker"&mdash;an individual or a group of dwarves dedicated to hunting illithids.
 * caurak: "cavern"
 * corl: "to kill"
 * corlar: "killer"

D

 * daern: "familiar"
 * dauble: "treasure, valuable"
 * deladar: "to descend, to go down"
 * deladaraugh: "to die in battle"
 * delvar: "to dig"
 * donnar: "metal ore"
 * dunglor: "underground lake"
 * dunglorrin: "overlake"
 * dunlur: "underground river"

E

 * endar: "cave" (on the surface, one not linked to extensive underways)
 * erach: "scabbard"

F

 * faern: "home"
 * findar: "good luck, good fortune, favorable chances"
 * forak: "empty"

G

 * ghohlbrorn: the dwarven name for the bulette
 * glor: "lake"
 * glander: "gems", including natural uncut stones
 * gordul: "gods forfend!" or "gods, look at this!" (an oath of amazement or despair)
 * groht: "stone"

H

 * halaur: "gift"
 * hurnden: "payment"

I

 * ilith: "deal, agreement, trust if one's word or honour"

J

 * jargh: "idiot", "joker", also a term used for halflings

K

 * kuld: "axe"
 * kuldjargh: "axe idiot"

L

 * lhar: "gap (mountain) pass"
 * lhargh: "loose stone, bad to work or unsafe"
 * llur: "large (wide) river"
 * lur: "river" or "stream"
 * lurgh: "marsh, fen"
 * lurmurk: " bog, muskeg,(concealed waters)"

M

 * morndin: "peak, height(especially of mountains, but also used to speak of high ledges, ranks of individuals, or paticularly tall creatures)"
 * mrin: "to climb,hence mrinding means climbing"
 * mur: "to disagree, hence murmel means to argue, debate"
 * murmelings: "arguments, criticism, words of dissention"

N

 * naek: "killers"
 * norogh: "evil creatures, enemies or foes, usually unknown"
 * noror: "enemies(known)"
 * noroth: "enemy lair, area"

O

 * olaramorndin : "magical peaks"

R

 * rune: "familiar", "known"
 * Rrinnoroth : "place over enemy land"

S

 * Sabrak : Broken
 * Sarghathuld: "orc bane", as in the sword Sarghathuld.


 * Splendarrllur: "Shining River"

T

 * torune: "hold"
 * Turlaghh : "Field of Broken Dreams"

V

 * vivrik: "hunted"


 * vuddar: "of the jungle"


 * vudlur: "woods stream"