Falcon

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 Related terms 1.4 Verb

English

Etymology

First attested circa 1250, from Old French faucon, from Late Latin falconem, nominative form of falco, probably from Latin falx

Pronunciation

• AHD: /fălkən/ or /fôlkən/ or /fôkən/
• IPA: /'fælkɒn/

Noun

falcon (plural: falcons)

1. any bird of the genus falco, all of them birds of prey

Translations

Albanian: petriti Basque: belatz handi Belarusian: сапсан Bosnian: soko m Breton: falc’hun Bulgarian: сокол m Catalan: falcó Chinese: 獵鷹, 猎鹰 Croatian: sokol Czech: sokol Danish: falk c Dutch: valk m Esperanto: falko Estonian: pistrik Faroese: ferðafalkur Finnish: haukka French: faucon m Frisian: falk Friulian: falcon Gallegan: falcón German: Falke m Greek: πετρίτης, γεράκι n Hungarian: sólyom Icelandic: fálki Indonesian: [[]] Irish: fabhcún Italian: falco m, falcone m Japanese: 隼

Korean: 송골매 Ladin: falcon Latin: Falco Latvian: lielais piekūns Lithuanian: sakalas keleivis Lower Sorbian: sokoł Low Saxon: Falk m Macedonian: сокол (sokol) Maltese: bies Norwegian: falk m Occitan: moisset Polish: sokół Portuguese: falcão m Romanian: şoim Romansh: falcun Romany: falkono m Russian: сокол (sokol) m Sami: fálli Sardinian: àcchili piscadrixi, tilibriu, astori perdighinu Scottish: seabhag Serbian: соко (soko) Slovak: sokol Slovenian: sokol m Spanish: halcón m Swedish: falk Turkish: doğan, gökdoğan Ukrainian: сокіл, сапсан (sokil, sapsan) Upper Sorbian: sokoł Welsh: hebog

Related terms

• Capra falconeri
• falconer
• falconet
• falcon-gentil, falcon-gentle
• falconine
• falconry
• gerfalcon, gyrfalcon
• peregrine falcon

Verb

to falcon

1. Hunt with a falcon or falconsbg:falcon

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