Falcon

Etymology
From, from falcon:, falcun:, from  falco:, from  (compare  fealca:,  valk:,  Falke:,  falki:), from pre-Germanic *pol-ĝ-, from  'pale' (compare  pálšas:,  bāls:,  buolgs:), from  'fallow'. More at.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|["fO:k@n]|["fO:lk@n]|["f{lk@n]}}

Noun

 * 1) Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

Translations

 * Albanian: petriti
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: belatz handi
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: falc'hun
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: falcó
 * Chinese: 隼 (sǔn)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: aʋako
 * Faroese: falkur, smyril
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: falcon
 * Galician: falcón
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: άρακος (arakos), ιέραξ (ierax) , ίραξ (irax)
 * Modern:
 * Hebrew: בז (baz)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: alap-alap
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 隼 (はやぶさ, hayabusa)
 * Kazakh: сұңқар
 * Kazakh: сұңқар


 * Korean: 매 (mae), 송골매 (songgolmae)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ,
 * Ladin: falcon
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: lielais piekūns
 * Lithuanian: sakalas keleivis
 * Low Saxon: Falk
 * Lower Sorbian: sokoł
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: moisset
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: falkono
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: falcun
 * Russian:
 * Sami: fálli
 * Sardinian: àcchili piscadrixi, tilibriu, astori perdighinu
 * Scottish Gaelic: seabhag
 * Serbian: соко (soko)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Upper Sorbian: sokoł
 * Volapük: falok,  hifalok,  jifalok,  falokül,  hifalokül,  jifalokül,  faon
 * Walloon: fåcon
 * Welsh: hebog
 * West Frisian: falk

Related terms

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

Verb

 * 1) To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
 * 2) * 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:
 * He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.

Anagrams

 * flacon

Noun

 * 1) kestrel

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