falcon

See also: Falcon, falcón, and Falcón

English

A falcon

Alternative forms

• faulcon (obsolete), faucon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).

cognates

Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fôlʹkən, fôʹkən, IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(l)kən/, /ˈfɒlkən/
• (US) enPR: fălʹkən, IPA^(key): /ˈfælkən/ IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːlkən/

• Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfælkən/, IPA^(key): /ˈfoːlkən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛlkən/, IPA^(key): /ˈfoːlkən/
• Rhymes: -ɔːkən, -ɔːlkən

Originally, the l was silent and purely etymological. Its pronunciation began through spelling pronunciation and is followed by most speakers, though some speakers still use l-less pronunciations.

Noun

falcon (plural falcons)

1. Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
2. (falconry) A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
3. (historical) A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.

Derived terms

• Amur falcon (Falco amurensis)
• aplomado falcon (Falco femoralis)
• Berigora falcon (Falco berigora)
• black falcon (Falco subniger)
• blue falcon
• brown falcon (Falco berigora)
• Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae)
• falcon-eyed
• forest falcon (Micrastur spp.)
• golden falcon name
• gray falcon, grey falcon (Falco hypoleucos)
• lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus)
• laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)
• New Zealand falcon (Falco novaeseelandiae)
• Peale's falcon (Falco peregrinus pealei)
• peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
• prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus)
• pygmy falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus)
• red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus)
• Saker falcon (Falco cherrug)
• shaheen falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator)
• stone falcon (Accipiter nisus)

 

Related terms

• Falco
• Falconer
• falconer
• falconet
• falcon-gentil, falcon-gentle
• falconine
• falconry
• gerfalcon, gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)

Translations

bird of the genus Falco

• Albanian: skifter (sq) m, fajkua (sq) m, petrit (sq) m
• Arabic: صَقْر (ar) m (ṣaqr), شَاهِين m (šāhīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: صقر m (ṣaʔr)

  Hijazi Arabic: صقر m (ṣagir, ṣagur)

• Armenian: բազե (hy) (baze)
• Assamese: চিলনী (siloni), শেন চৰাই (xen sorai)
• Asturian: ferre (ast) m
• Avar: лачен (lačen)
• Azerbaijani: qızılquş (az), laçın
• Bashkir: ыласын (ılasın)
• Basque: belatz handi
• Belarusian: со́кал m (sókal)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: falc'hun ?, gwalc’h
• Bulgarian: соко́л (bg) m (sokól)
• Catalan: falcó (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴼⴰⵍⴽⵓ (afalku)
• Chechen: леча (leča)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隼 (zh) (sǔn)

• Chukchi: рэвыԓьын (rėvyḷʹyn)
• Coptic: ⲃⲏϭ m (bēc)
• Czech: sokol (cs) m
• Danish: falk (da) c
• Daur: shogoo, showoo
• Dutch: valk (nl) m
• Egyptian: (bjk)
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: falko
• Estonian: pistrik (et)
• Ewe: aʋako
• Fala: falcón
• Faroese: falkur m, smyril m, fálkur m
• Finnish: jalohaukka (fi)
• French: faucon (fr) m
• Friulian: falcuç m
• Galician: falcón m
• Georgian: შავარდენი (šavardeni), ბაზი (bazi), (as a borrowing of English origin) ფალკონი (palḳoni)
• German: Falke (de) m
• Greek: γεράκι (el) n (geráki)

  Ancient Greek: ἱέραξ m (hiérax), κίρκος (kírkos)

• Hebrew: בז (he) m (baz)
• Hindi: बाज़ (bāz), बाज (hi) m (bāj), श्येन (hi) m (śyen)
• Hungarian: sólyom (hu)
• Icelandic: fálki (is) m
• Ido: falkono (io)
• Indonesian: alap-alap (id)
• Ingush: лаьча (läča)
• Irish: fabhcún m
• Italian: falco (it) m, falcone (it) m
• Japanese: 隼 (ja) (はやぶさ, hayabusa), ハヤブサ (ja) (hayabusa)
• Kapampangan: alibasbas
• Kazakh: сұңқар (sūñqar)
• Khitan: 𘬥𘲼𘯺 (*ś au a)
• Korean: 매 (ko) (mae), 송골매 (ko) (songgolmae)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: шумкар (ky) (şumkar), ылаачын (ky) (ılaacın)

  Sorani: شاھین (şahîn), باز (baz)

• Ladin: falcon m
• Latin: falcō m
• Latvian: lielais piekūns m
• Ligurian: fàrco m
• Lithuanian: sakalas (lt) m
• Lombard: falcon (lmo) m
• Low German: Falk m
• Luxembourgish: Fallek m
• Macedonian: сокол m (sokol)
• Malay: falkon
• Maltese: falkun m
• Manchu: ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ (šongkon)
• Maori: kāeaea, kārearea
• Middle English: faucoun
• Mongolian: шонхор (mn) (šonxor)
• Nahuatl: cuauhtohtli
• Navajo: giní
• Nivkh: тʼолхаскр (tʼolxaskr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: falk (no) m

  Nynorsk: falk m

• Occitan: moisset (oc) m, falcon (oc) m
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: طوغان (doğan)
• Pali: sena m
• Persian: شاهین (fa) (šâhin)
• Piedmontese: falcon m
• Polish: sokół (pl) m
• Portuguese: falcão (pt) m
• Quechua: waman (qu)
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romani: falkono m
• Romanian: șoim (ro) m
• Romansch: falcun m
• Russian: со́кол (ru) m (sókol)
• Sangisari: قوش (quš)
• Sanskrit: श्येन (sa) m (śyena)
• Sardinian: àcchili piscadrixi ?, tilibriu ?, astori perdighinu m
• Scottish Gaelic: seabhag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: соко m, сокол m

  Roman: soko (sh) m, (Croatian) sokol (sh) m

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: sokol (sk) m
• Slovene: sokol (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sokoł m

  Upper Sorbian: sokoł m

• Southern Altai: шоҥкор (šoŋkor)
• Spanish: halcón (es) m, falcón m
• Swedish: falk (sv) c
• Tagalog: palkon
• Tajik: боз (tg) (boz)
• Tatar: лачын (tt) (laçın)
• Telugu: డేగ (te) (ḍēga)
• Turkish: doğan (tr), gökdoğan (tr)
• Ukrainian: со́кіл m (sókil)
• Urdu: باز (bāz), شاہین (śāhīn), عقاب ('uqāb), چیل (cīl)
• Vietnamese: cắt (vi)
• Volapük: falok (vo)
• Walloon: fåcon (wa)
• Welsh: hebog m, gwalch m, gwalchod m pl
• West Frisian: falk m
• Zazaki: baz (diq)

Verb

falcon (third-person singular simple present falcons, present participle falconing, simple past and past participle falconed)

1. To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
   • 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 falcon or falcons

• Hungarian: solymászik (hu)

Anagrams

• flacon

Ladin

Noun

falcon m

1. kestrel

Middle English

Noun

falcon

1. Alternative form of faucoun

Occitan

Alternative forms

• faucon

Etymology

From Old Occitan falcon, from Late Latin falco, falconem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (West Languedocien) [falˈku]
• IPA^(key): (Provençal) [fɔu̯ˈkũŋ]

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Noun

falcon m (plural falcons)

1. falcon

   Synonym: moisset

Derived terms

• falconièr

References

• Müller, Daniela. 2011. Developments of the lateral in Occitan dialects and their Romance and cross-linguistic context. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toulouse.

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 469.
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 287.

Old French

Noun

falcon oblique singular, m (oblique plural falcons, nominative singular falcons, nominative plural falcon)

1. Alternative form of faucon (falcon)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin falco, falconem.

Noun

falcon m (oblique plural falcons, nominative singular falcons, nominative plural falcon)

1. falcon (bird)

Descendants

• Occitan: falcon

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “falco”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 381