falcon

See also: falcón

English

a falcon

Alternative forms

• faulcon (obsolete), faucon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English falcon, faulcon, from Old French 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”), Norwegian and 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

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: соко́л (bg) m (sokól)
• Catalan: falcó (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴼⴰⵍⴽⵓ (afalku)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隼 (zh) (sǔn)

• Czech: sokol (cs) m
• Danish: falk (da) c
• Daur: shogoo, showoo
• 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: falcuç 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 (ja) (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 (käi)
• Maori: kāeaea, kārearea
• Mongolian: шонхор (mn) (šonhor)
• Navajo: giní
• Nivkh: тʼолхаскр (tʼolxaskr)
• 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
• Quechua: waman (qu)
• 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)
• 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)

Descendants

• Catalan: falcó
• Occitan: falcon

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “falco”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 30, page 381