Common dictionary

The following is a list of terms known in the Common tongue.
==A==
;alae
: () "Fortunate meeting." A contraction of an elven phrase. It was a greeting and reassurance of peaceful intentions between travelers in the southern and eastern coast lands around the Sea of Fallen Stars. It became a common greeting across all Faerûn during the 15 century DR.
;alavairthae
: () "May your skill prevail." A common farewell among the Red Wizards of Thay.
;alehouse
: a tavern.
;alpetan
: (Singular: alb) breasts, especially a woman's breasts. Other terms used included bells (used politely between women), bitebolds (used viciously or rudely), brighthelms, bite-loaves, fruit, handheavies, pillows (used jokingly), pluckers, puffballs, ramraths (see ramrath), roalen (see roalen), udders (used to refer to notable ugly or deformed breasts), or zarrzem.
;amarast
: () "Fare well until next we meet!" A common farewell among the sailors of the South, originally a word from Turmic.
;anyhail
: anyhow, anyway.
;Art or the Art
: Arcane magic and its mastery.
==B==
;back stair
: fire escape.
;badaulder
: hogwash, nonsense, etc. It originated in the Western Heartlands, but in the late 14 century DR its usage crept into Cormyr, the Dalelands, the Moonsea, and Sembia.
;battlebud
: "dyke" (derogatory).
;bell
: a period of about an hour.
;bindworthy
: "You are weak or wrong or stupid or rash enough to be easily bound by a mortal, and fittingly bound" (an expletive used by devils).
;blood of the night
: the essence or nature of what it is to steal for a living.
;bluefin
: tuna fish.
;blusterwing
: grouse bird.
;blynndur
: a small loaf of bread with a hard crust and fireseared herbs and greens inserted for flavor. Often used as a bowl for soup or stew when dining away from civilization.
;brightbirds
: a pair who are courting but not necessarily intimate.
;brightcoin
: a successful and socially rising person. Can be turned to an insult by combination with other words that give context.
;brightheart
: the person your heart is set upon after courting in public.
;brightstar
: great, exciting, pleasing, marvelous, or superb.
;browncap
: a wild mushroom.
;bullyblade
: an opportunistic thug for hire, often hired in gangs.
;burslake
: trout fish, shortened to slake.
;bustard
: turkey bird.
==C==
;candle-cup
: a bed paired with a table and an oil lamp.
;cantrev
: Moonshae term for a village, town, or other settled community.
;cask-smasher
: a vandal.
;casking
: the act of vandalizing.
;chamberjack or chambermaid
: an employee of a small inn; informally jack or maid.
;clack
: gossip, rumors, news, or current affairs. This word originated in the Dalelands. For example, "I'll relate one snippet of such current clack" or "But enough clack; there's work to be done."
;clevershanks or clevertongue
: a know-it-all. The first word refers to men, the second to women.
;cod-loose winker
: a Casanova; a tireless woman-chaser (derogatory).
;coin-cleaner
: A money launderer. Someone who takes stolen or tainted money and filters it through a financial system so its origin cannot be easily traced.
;coin-lad
: a male prostitute. See dathna.
;coin-lass
: a female prostitute.
;croft
: an isolated farmstead.
;crofter
: the owner of a croft, or a worker of said croft (usually, kin to the owner). Can also be used as substitute for farmer.
==D==
;darburl
: () to feel angry; for example, "I'm right darburl, just now."
;darchains
: suites of linked rooms in a house, usually three.
;darkback skewer
: meat from rodents (rats, voles, sometimes mice, weasels, or mink) fried and served on a needle of wood with onion.
;darkblade
: a mercenary with dubious morals and/or loyalty.
;darkhall
: any rundown house.
;dathna
: a male homosexual. See coin-lad.
;dayblood
: a novice thief, who "doesn't have the blood of the night in them."
;deepnight
: the time of midnight.
;doorsword
: a guard that guards a doorway of a building.
;durgos
: () "Peace." A corrupted form of the orcish greeting "Durgreos." Used by mongrelmen and human slavers. In the 15 century DR, it as also a popular greeting among dragonborn, and traders and sailors of all races.
;dusk
: a masochistic man (derogatory).
;dusk rose
: a masochistic woman.
==E==
;elsun
: the period of late morning before noon.
;emerald eyes
: a Calishite dish made from small green fish, squid, snails, and mussels, all chopped together, hotly spiced, and pickled.
;evenfeast
: dinner or supper.
;eventide
: the period of gloaming twilight between sunset and proper dusk and nightfall.
==F==
;factor
: an agent who performed trade deals on behalf of another party.
;farruk
: equivalent of the F-word, also used as farruking.
;fieldings
: a broad term for vegetables, mainly cabbages, leeks, parsnips, and potatoes, but also carrots, onions, and radishes.
;filidar
: a dainty food item, picnic, or feast; for example, "a fine filidar it was, too." Derived from the name of Prince Filidar.
;fireseared
: grilled (cooking).
;flame in the belly
: a sweet peach jelly made with zzar and red-pepper spices from Calimshan.
;flamed
: seared (cooking).
;foamjaws
: the disease of rabies.
;fumblehands
: an incompetent or clumsy thief.
==G==
;galad
: Heartlands word meaning something akin to "I'm astonished!"
;garderobe
: bathroom. Another term for a bathroom was jakes. Outdoor bathrooms were called privies, thunderthrones, or gloryhouses.
;glim/glimmer
: something beautiful or flashy.
;goldenpanned
: sautéed.
;godswake
: the predawn period of night.
;goodsir, goodwoman, fairlady
: a polite greeting, usually used with strangers.
;groundsnake
: any edible snake. Typically served chopped into chunks and fried.
;gulletfire
: beer or wine that isn't pleasant to drink, but doesn't cause illness, either. See throatslake.
==H==
;haelhard
: an office worker.
;hand-tart
: a baked hand-sized pastry filled with meat (usually bustard with other game) and a strip of boar fat (boar bacon).
;harbright
: the period of full morning after dawn.
;hardjaw
: a garrulous regular of a tavern; a barfly.
;harnor
: butch (derogatory).
;haularake
: () god-damnit. An all-faith polite insult.
;hawksnarl
: a man who always yelled or was nastier or more aggressive than prudent or necessary.
;hay-nose
: a hick or bumpkin.
;heartstop
: heart attack; see heartstop.
;High Tongue
: The standard magical script used by wizards for recording spells in spellbooks and scrolls.
;highborn or high-nose
: a noble. High-nose was used as a pejorative.
;highmantle
: someone who is politely haughty and superior, rather than rude. A compliment to their manners and bearing.
;highsun
: the time of noon.
;highsunfeast
: the meal of lunch.
;hiresword
: a mercenary.
;hold
: a fortified homestead.
;holy-nose
: a priest. A mildly-offensive term.
;housejack
: a bouncer.
;hrammar
: () a non-deity-specific "damn" used in the South.
;hrast
: () a non-deity-specific "damn."
;hrasting
: (() a mild form of stlarning; different meaning to hrast.
;hykyath
: () "Prance." It was used by satyrs as a parting word. It was frequently used by elven or half-elven poets. Orcs were known to use the term in battle.
==J==
;joint
: a cut of meat.
==K==
;keghand
: a male waiter or other serving staff.
;kell
: to try. It was a derisive, cynical or disbelieving word, used only when the thing you were trying to do seemed to be impossible. Kell never changed due to tense.
;knuckle or thumbknuckle
: brussels sprout.
==L==
;lalandath
: agile, sleek or lithe, often used to describe female dancers whose beauty was accentuated by their movements.
;lammath drios
: () "Fortune find you." Parting used in Essembra and the surrounding lands (except Sembia, as they see it as a word only used by bumpkins).
;lifeblood
: women's periods.
;loalurr
: pistachio nuts.
==M==
;mayhap
: perhaps. The word "perhaps" was also used in the Realms, but only by bards, minstrels, nobles, and many middle-class merchants. However, it was only used in conversation with people close to the speaker; it was never used in public or while talking with strangers.
;marraskh
: "Get gone, NOW, to being a lemure or a worm on some other plane!"
;marrado beans
: seeds (presumably of the marrado plant) that resembled kidney beans except blood-red in color, typically dried for export from Tethyr and eastern Amn.
;message tart
: a hand-tart with a concealed message inside, usually engraved on a clay disk to survive the baking process.
;moonblood
: women's periods.
;morningfeast
: the meal of breakfast.
;murdath
: a standath without cellars.
;my hearth
: my house. A term usually used to refer to a cottage.In the Realms, the word "cabin" didn't exist and "cottage" is rarely used.
==N==
;naed
: () "dung" (exclamation) used in the South; same meaning as naeth but stronger.
;naeth 
: (, drawn-out "th") "dung" (exclamation).
;nandra
: something mediocre. Usually used to bicker over prices.
;navalar
: catfish.
;newcoin
: a newly-wealthy person who spends to show off (derogatory).
;nightblood
: a general term for a professional thief.
;nightfall
: the time of dusk.
;nightjack or nightmaid
: an employee of a large inn, informally potjack and potmaid.
==O==
;oloré
: () "Well met" or "Good day." A common greeting in the lands surrounding the Sea of Fallen Stars.
;on the morrow
: tomorrow.
;orbal
: () dung, the Shining South equivalent of naeth.
;outlander
: a foreigner. In the Realms, this term was not considered pejorative.
==P==
;parlarren
: (Singular: parl) nipples, especially on women. Other terms used included daggerspikes, springbuds (used politely, poetically, or gallantly), suckworts (used crudely), teats (used crudely), and thorns.
;poised
: an individual in the process of transitioning between genders.
;plounce
: a squab (young pigeon).
;parharding
: a swear word used as an adjective; for example "Parharding wizard!"
;Power or the Power
: Divine magic.
;punnet
: a small basket made of rushes used as a unit for selling vegetables.
==R==
;ramrath
: a reddish, round melon grown in the Tashalar region. Also used to refer to breasts (see alpetan).
; redcloth
: a rag used for absorbing menstrual blood.
;rhambukkya
: () "Ride high." Greeting used by Shaaryan nomads and the inhabitants of Elfharrow.
;rivvim
: smitten, in love, lusty. As in "I'm rivvim for her."
;roalen
: (derived from "rollingheads") a woman's breasts (see alpetan). The term originated from an old and anonymous ballad that compared the vigorous bouncing of a woman's chest with the bouncing of severed heads as they rolled down an embankment, sent into motion by orcs after a battle.
;roofwrack
: a dilapidated house.
;rose
: a sexually submissive female.
==S==
;sabbas
: () "Run free." A parting used by centaurs, and by many nomads and riders of many races.
;sabruin
: () "Get lost" or harsher words such as the F-word, also used as sabruining.
;saer
: sir, goodsir.
;sallar
: the disease of typhus.
;sark
: (, drawn-out "s") a more offensive form of haularake.
;scorchkettle
: a woman who always yelled or was nastier or more aggressive than prudent or necessary. Sometimes, it was used to refer to both genders.
;screamdream
: An erotic dream.
;sellsword
: a well-established or veteran mercenary.
;Selûne's kiss
: women's periods.
;shaeling
: minnow fish.
;sharedoors
: cheap, low-rise urban apartment flats.
;sheelie
: bass fish.
;shield
: pastry crust.
;shitting
: a curse used before a another word to express antipathy, or intensify something already bad. "It's broken. It's shitting broken."
;sildur
: an Elven loan-word, this term referred to individuals that had settled into a gender other than their birth gender.
;silverfin
: whitefish.
;simpering man-lover
: an effeminate male homosexual (derogatory).
;skaether
: a restaurant.
;slake
: trout fish.
;sleer
: an expletive used by devils.
;softshadow
: a veteran, skilled thief.
;sorn
: salmon fish.
;spear or greenneedles
: asparagus.
;spurnarmor
: a good-looking man or woman with a spectacular figure.
;standath
: a rectangular stone building with cellars. Common across the Dragon Reach and Moonsea.
;steading
: an isolated farm.
;stettar voh (stet-tar VOH)
: "Gods-power keep you well." A formal, peaceful greeting and parting among merchants in southern Faerûn and in Laerakond.
;stlarn
: () polite equivalent of F-word. About as blasphemous as "darn" used where one might use "screw" or "screwing" (stlarning).
;stonebolt
: a lidless, small clay pot with a long handle, often sealed with wax and used for selling, storing, and transporting food items. Size and capacity ranged from a human fist to a human head.
;straek
: (, drawn-out "r") something akin "go kill yourself, right now and painfully."
==T==
;tallhouse
: a tall, narrow, tenement-like building sharing side walls with adjacent buildings. Tallhouses were common in Waterdeep, Athkatla, and the cities of Sembia in the 14 and 15 centuries DR.
;tantam
: () a common greeting in the North and among the worshipers of Waukeen, meaning "peace, and hello," a greeting of joy, given with devotion.
;tasmar
: a bisexual man.
;tavernmaster or tankard-tender
: an innkeeper or the owner of a tavern.In the Realms, the words barkeep, barkeeper or bartender do not exist.
;tenday
: a ten day period, analogous to a week.
;thael
: glad, pleasant or heart-lifting.
;thargur
: sweet syrup made by adding diced apples and walnuts to molasses. Used in desserts.
;tharsun
: the period of late afternoon before sunset.
;throatslake
: a healthy and thirst-quenching drink that wasn't particularly pleasant; see gulletfire.
;thruss
: a lesbian.
;this night
: tonight.
;thruster
: a tireless social-climber. May imply a willingness to demean themselves or perform dark deeds.
;thulsun
: the period of early afternoon.
;tindertwig
: a lighter match.
;tluin
: () a stronger form of sabruin, also used as tluining.
;turnshield
: polite Cormyrean term for bastard offspring of a noble.
==U==
;uluvathae
: () "Fortune bring you joy" or "May your fortune bring you joy." Used by elves and half-elves as an informal greeting or parting. Between friends it was an insult or an innocuous warning that they were being listened on.
;under the moon
: can be said of a woman during her menstruation.
==V==
;vasark
: horsemeat.
;vlandranna
: () "Gods grant." Used in conjunction with with whatever you wanted the gods to grant you. A corrupted Dwarven word from the Vast and Impiltur used by those living on and around the Sea of Fallen Stars.
==W==
;waelo
: equivalent to "Hey there!"
;wanton
: a promiscuous female (derogatory).
;way town
: A village or town where one might find services, security, or rest while on the way (road) to somewhere else.
;wench
: a barmaid or a waitress.In the Realms, this term is not considered pejorative.
;whitesmith
: someone who did light metalwork.
;whitewasting
: the disease of leprosy.
;whorson
: an insult, probably a contraction of "whore's son."
;wild one
: someone who enjoys having (shapechanging) spells cast upon them as part of sexual play (derogatory).
;windchill fever
: the disease of pneumonia.
;winker
: a lecher (derogatory).
==Z==
;zzar
: ice wine.
==Appendix==
===See Also===
* Oaths, idioms, and colloquialisms
===Notes===
===References===
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