hawk

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English

A juvenile goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hôk, IPA: /hɔːk/, SAMPA: /hO:k/
• (US) enPR: hôk, IPA: /hɔk/, SAMPA: /hOk/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: häk, IPA: /hɑk/, SAMPA: /hAk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Etymology 1

Middle English hauk, from Old English hafoc, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (compare West Frisian hauk, Dutch havik, German Habicht), from Proto-Indo-European *kobuĝo (compare Latin capys, capus 'bird of prey', Albanian gabonjë, shkabë 'eagle', Russian кобец (kóbec) 'falcon').

Noun

hawk (plural hawks)

1. A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae.

   It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.

2. (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions.

   The hawks controlled the senate, so the Minister of War had few problems with his budget.

Antonyms

• (politics): dove

Derived terms

Derived terms

African harrier hawk aspere-hawk ball hawk bay-winged hawk bee hawk between hawk and buzzard bicoloured hawk black hawk broad-winged hawk chicken hawk, chicken-hawk, chickenhawk common black hawk Cooper's hawk deficit hawk dor-hawk, dorhawk, dorrhawk dove hawk duck hawk, duck-hawk eagle hawk, eagle-hawk, eaglehawk ferruginous hawk fish hawk, fish-hawk, fishhawk Galápagos hawk game hawk gnat hawk, gnat-hawk gray hawk, grey hawk gray-lined hawk, grey-lined hawk great black hawk great-footed hawk Gundlach's hawk Harlan's hawk harrier hawk Harris hawk, Harris's hawk have eyes like a hawk Hawaiian hawk hawk-beaked hawk-bell hawkbill hawk-cuckoo

hawk-dove game hawk eagle hawked hawker hawkery hawk-eye hawk-eyed hawkfish hawk fly, hawk-fly hawk-headed parrot hawkish hawk-kite hawk-like, hawklike hawk moth, hawk-moth, hawkmoth hawk nose, hawk-nose, hawknose hawk-nosed hawk-nut, hawknut hawk of the fist hawk of the lure hawk of the soar hawk owl, hawk-owl hawk-parrot hawk's beard, hawk's-beard, hawksbeard hawk's bell hawk's bill, hawk's-bill, hawksbill hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle hawk's eye, hawk's-eye hawk's-feet, hawk's-foot hawk's meat hawk swallow, hawk-swallow hawkweed hawkwise hawky hen hawk, hen-hawk hobby hawk hover-hawk

jack-hawk jashawk Jayhawk kitchen hawk know a hawk from a handsaw Krider's hawk lark-hawk liberal hawk long-tailed hawk Lucifer hawk make-hawk man-of-war hawk mangrove black hawk mar-hawk market-hawk marsh hawk meadowhawk moor hawk mosquito hawk moth-hawk mountain hawk mouse hawk, mouse-hawk news-hawk, newshawk night hawk, night-hawk pap-hawk partridge-hawk passage hawk peregrine hawk pigeon hawk, pigeon-hawk plain-breasted hawk pondhawk prairie hawk quail hawk red-shouldered hawk red-tailed hawk

Ridgway's hawk ringtail hawk rough-legged hawk rufous-thighed hawk savanna hawk screech hawk, screech-hawk sea hawk, sea-hawk semicollared hawk sharp-shinned hawk shite-hawk short-tailed hawk shower hawk skeeter hawk small-bird-hawk snake hawk snipe hawk spar-hawk, sparhawk sparrow hawk, sparrow-hawk, sparrowhawk squirrel hawk stand hawk stannel hawk star-hawk stone hawk Swainson's hawk swallow-tailed hawk tarantula hawk tiny hawk vanner hawk war hawk, war-hawk watch (someone or something) like a hawk whistling hawk white-breasted hawk white-throated hawk white hawk zone-tailed hawk

Related terms

• creshawk
• goshawk
• sparhawk

Translations

predatory bird

Ancient Greek: ἱέραξ (hierax), κίρκος (kirkos) m. Armenian: բազե (hy) (baze) Asturian: ferre palomberu (ast) m. Bosnian: jastreb (bs) m. Catalan: falcó (ca) m.; aligot (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 鷹 (zh), 鹰 (zh) (yīng) Crimean Tatar: atmaca Croatian: jastreb (hr) m. Czech: jestřáb (cs) m. Danish: høg (da) c. Dutch: havik (nl) m. Finnish: haukka (fi) French: faucon (fr) m. German: Habicht (de) m. Greek: γεράκι (el) n. Hungarian: héja (hu) Icelandic: haukur (is) m. Indonesian: rajawali Irish: seabhac (ga) m. Italian: falco (it) m. Japanese: 鷹 (ja), タカ (ja) (taka) Kazakh: қаршыға (kk) (qarşığa) Latgalian: vonogs m.

Latin: accipiter (la) m. Latvian: vanags (lv) m. Lithuanian: vanagas (lt) m. Macedonian: јастреб (mk) (jástreb) m. Persian: باز (fa) (bâz) Polish: jastrząb (pl) m. Portuguese: gavião (pt) m. Russian: ястреб (ru) (jástreb) Scottish Gaelic: clamhan m., seabhag f. Serbian: Cyrillic: јастреб (sr) m. Roman: jastreb (sr) m. Slovene: jastreb (sl) m. Spanish: halcón (es) m. Swahili: kipanga (sw) Swedish: hök (sv) c. Taos: tòkeną Turkish: atmaca (tr) Ukrainian: яструб (uk) m. Volapük: (male or female) hauk (vo), (male) hihauk (vo), (female) jihauk (vo), (offspring, young) haukül (vo), (obsolete) fäon (vo) Welsh: gwalch (cy) m. West Frisian: hauk (fy) c.

advocate of aggressive politics

Armenian: բազե (hy) (baze) Danish: høg (da) c. Dutch: havik (nl) m. French: faucon (fr) m. Italian: falco (it) m.

Japanese: 鷹派 (ja) (たかは, takaha), タカ派 (ja) (taka-ha) Polish: jastrząb (pl) m. Russian: ястреб (ru) (jástreb) m., милитарист (ru) (militaríst) m. Slovene: jastreb (sl) m. Swedish: hök (sv) c.

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Catalan: falcó Cherokee: ᏙᏬᏗ (dowodi) Mandarin: 鹰 (yīng)，隼 (sǔn) Esperanto: akcipitro Low German (Low German): Havik, Haavk m.

Norwegian: hauk m Romanian: șoim m. Spanish: gavilán m. Telugu: డేగ (Daega) Turkish: doğan

Verb

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

1. (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
   • 2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:

     He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.

Translations

to hunt with a hawk

Italian: cacciare col falco

Derived terms

• hawk after
• hawk at
• hawk for
• hawking

Etymology 2

Noun

Wikipedia hawk (plural hawks)

1. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.

Synonyms

• mortarboard

Derived terms

• hawk boy, hawk-boy

Translations

plasterer's tool

Danish: mørtelbræt (da) n.

Italian: nettatoia (it) f., sparviero (it) m., vassoio (it) m.

Etymology 3

Back-formation from hawker.

Verb

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

1. (transitive) To sell.

   The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.

Derived terms

• hawked
• hawking
• hawky

Related terms

• hawker

Translations

to sell

Danish: falbyde (da) French: vendre (fr)

Italian: vendere per strada, vendere porta a porta

Etymology 4

Onomatopoeia.

Noun

hawk (plural hawks)

1. An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.

Synonyms

• hawking (noun)

Translations

an effort to force up phlegm

Verb

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

1. (transitive) To forcibly attempt to cough up (phlegm).

   Jim hawked up some spit and spat it on the sidewalk.

2. (intransitive) To clear the throat loudly.

   Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.

Derived terms

• hawking (noun)

Translations

to attempt to cough up, to clear the throat

Bosnian: iskašljati (bs), iskašljavati (bs) Danish: harke (da), rømme sig (da) Italian: raschiare la gola

Latin: cōnscreor (la) Swedish: harkla sig (sv)

See also

• Hawkshaw, hawkshaw
• Hawkubite
• winkle-hawk