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The top section is a lift from the Orcish word list on the Ardalambion, to which you should go for the true learning of Orcish!

        agh "and"
        ash "one"
        -at infinitive suffix, or possibly a specialized "intentive" suffix indicating purpose: Ash nazg durbatulûk "one Ring to rule them all"
        bagronk (DBS) "cesspool", possibly bag+ronk "cess+pool"
        búbhosh (DBS) "great"
        búrz "dark", (isolated from Lugbúrz, q.v.), burzum "darkness"
        dug "filth", tentatively isolated from pushdug, q.v.
        durb- "rule", infinitive durbat, only attested with suffixes: durbatulûk "to rule them all". The verb durb- is remarkably similar to Quenya tur- of similar sense.
        ghâsh "fire" (stated to be derived from the Black Speech, may or may not represent Sauron's original form of the word)
        gimb- "find", infinitive gimbat, only attested with a pronominal suffix: gimbatul, "to find them"
        glob (DBS) "fool"
        gûl "any one of the major invisible servants of Sauron dominated entirely by his will" (A Tolkien Compass p. 172). Translated "wraith(s)" in the compound Nazgûl, "Ringwraith(s)".
        hai "folk", in Uruk-hai "Uruk-folk" and Olog-hai "Troll-folk"; cf. also Oghor-hai.
        ishi "in", a suffixed postposition: burzum-ishi, "in the darkness".
        krimp- "bind", infinitive krimpat, only attested with a pronominal suffix: krimpatul, "to bind them"
        lug "tower". Isolated from Lugbúrz, q.v.
        Lugbúrz the Dark Tower, Sindarin Barad-dûr (Lug-búrz "Tower-dark")
        nazg "ring": ash nazg "one ring", Nazgûl "Ring-wraith(s)"
        Nazgûl "Ring-wraith(s)", nazg + gûl (q.v.)
        Oghor-hai "Drúedain" (UT:379; this may or may not be pure Black Speech)
        olog a variety of Troll apparently developed by Sauron. Olog-hai "Olog-people".
        pushdug (DBS) "dungfilth", possibly push+dug "dung+filth"
        ronk (DBS) "pool", tentatively isolated from bagronk, q.v.
        skai (DBS) interjection of contempt
        sha (DBS) interjection of contempt
        sharkû (DBS?) "old man"
        snaga "slave" (May be DBS.) Used of lesser breeds of Orcs (WJ:390).
        thrak- "bring", infinitive thrakat, only attested with suffixes: thrakatulûk "to bring them all"
        u (DBS) "to"
        -ûk "all", suffixed to pronominal suffixes: -ulûk, "them all"
        -ul pronominal suffix "them".
        -um "-ness" in burzum "darkness".
        uruk a great variety of Orc. According to WJ:390, Sauron probably borrowed this word "from the Elvish tongues of earlier times".

Not direct lift:

        burzum-ishi "in the darkness"
        krimpatul "to bind them"
        Lugburz lug + burz "dark tower" (Sindarin: Barad-dur "Tower-dark")
        Nazgûl nazg + ûl or gûl
        Oghor-hai refers to the Druedain (see also Mankind)
        Olog-hai variety of Troll developed by Sauron (see also Trolls under "Newest Variety of Troll")
        Uruk-hai variety of Orc developed by Saruman (see also Orc Types and Gear)

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