falcon

See also: falcón

English

Brown falcon (Falco berigora)

Alternative forms

• faulcon (obsolete), faucon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English falcon, faulcon, from Anglo-Norman falcon, falcun, from Late Latin falcō ‎(“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Old Frankish *falko ‎(“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”), Swedish falk ‎(“falcon”), Icelandic fálki ‎(“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas ‎(“pale”), Latvian bāls ‎(“pale”), Latgalian buolgs ‎(“pale”). More at fallow.

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔːkən

Wikipedia

Noun

falcon ‎(plural falcons)

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

Derived terms

• brown falcon

Translations

bird of the genus Falco

• Albanian: petriti ?
• Arabic: صَقْر (ar) m ‎(ṣaqr), شَاهِين m ‎(šāhīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: صقر m ‎(ṣaʔr)

• Armenian: բազե (hy) ‎(baze)
• Asturian: falcón m
• Bashkir: ыласын ‎(ïlasïn)
• Basque: belatz handi
• Belarusian: со́кал m ‎(sókal)
• Breton: falc'hun ?
• Bulgarian: со́кол (bg) m ‎(sókol)
• Catalan: falcó (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴼⴰⵍⴽⵓ ‎(afalku)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隼 (zh) ‎(sǔn)

• Czech: sokol (cs) m
• Danish: falk (da) c
• Dutch: valk (nl) m
• Egyptian: bỉk

• Esperanto: falko
• Estonian: pistrik (et)
• Ewe: aʋako
• Faroese: falkur m, smyril m, fálkur m
• Finnish: jalohaukka (fi)
• French: faucon (fr) m
• Friulian: m
• Galician: falcón m
• Georgian: შავარდენი ‎(šavardeni), ბაზი ‎(bazi)
• German: Falke (de) m
• Greek: γεράκι (el) n ‎(geráki)

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

• Hebrew: בז (he) m ‎(baz)
• Hindi: बाज़ ‎(bāz)
• Hungarian: sólyom (hu)
• Icelandic: fálki (is) m
• Ido: falkono (io)
• Indonesian: alap-alap
• Irish: fabhcún m
• Italian: falco (it) m, falcone (it) m
• Japanese: 隼 (ja) ‎(はやぶさ, hayabusa), ハヤブサ ‎(hayabusa)
• Kazakh: сұңқар ‎(suñqar)
• Korean: 매 (ko) ‎(mae), 송골매 (ko) ‎(songgolmae)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: шумкар (ky) ‎(şumkar), ылаачын (ky) ‎(ılaaçın)

  Sorani: شاهین (ku) ‎(shahín), باز (ku) ‎(baz)

• Ladin: falcon m
• Latin: falcō m
• Latvian: lielais piekūns m
• Lithuanian: sakalas keleivis ?
• Low German: Falk m
• Luxembourgish: Fallek m
• Macedonian: сокол m ‎(sokol)
• Malay: falkon
• Maltese: falkun m
• Manchu: käi
• Maori: kāeaea, kārearea
• Mongolian: шонхор (mn) ‎(šonhor)
• Navajo: giní
• Nivkh: т'олхаскр ‎(t’olhaskr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: falk (no) m

  Nynorsk: falk m

• Occitan: moisset (oc) m
• Persian: شاهین (fa) ‎(šâhin), باز (fa) ‎(bâz)
• Polish: sokół (pl) m
• Portuguese: falcão (pt) m
• Romani: falkono m
• Romanian: șoim (ro) m
• Romansch: falcun m
• Russian: со́кол (ru) m ‎(sókol)
• 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

• Slovak: sokol m
• Slovene: sokol (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sokoł m

  Upper Sorbian: sokoł m

• Southern Altai: шоҥкор ‎(şoñkor)
• Spanish: halcón (es) m, falcón m
• Swedish: falk (sv) c
• Tagalog: palkon
• Turkish: doğan (tr), gökdoğan (tr)
• Ukrainian: со́кіл m ‎(sókil)
• Urdu: باز ‎(bāz)
• Vietnamese: chim ưng, chim cắt
• Volapük: (♂♀) falok (vo), (♂) hifalok, (♀) jifalok, (♂♀ offspring) falokül, (♂ offspring) hifalokül, (♀ offspring) jifalokül, (older term) faon
• Walloon: fåcon (wa)
• Welsh: hebog m
• West Frisian: falk m

Related terms

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

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.

Anagrams

• flacon

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Ladin

Noun

falcon m

1. kestrel

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Old French

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of faucon (falcon)

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Old Provençal

Etymology

Latin falco.

Noun

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

1. falcon (bird)

References

• (fr)(de) falco in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)