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 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: fôʹkən, fôlʹkən, fălʹkən, IPA^(key): [ˈfɔːkən], [ˈfɔːlkən], [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 light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.

Translations

bird of the genus Falco

• Albanian: petriti ?
• Arabic: صقر (ar) m (ṣaqr), شاهين m (shahin)

  Egyptian Arabic: صقر m (ṣaʔr)

• Armenian: բազե (hy) (baze)
• Asturian: falcón m
• Bashkir: ыласын (ïlasïn)
• Basque: belatz handi
• Belarusian: сокал m (sókal)
• Breton: falc'hun ?
• Bulgarian: сокол (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: falcon m
• Galician: falcón m
• Georgian: შავარდენი (šavardeni), ბაზი (bazi)
• German: Falke (de) m
• Greek: γεράκι (el) n (geráki)

  Ancient Greek: ἱέραξ m (hierax)

• 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
• Macedonian: сокол m (sókol)
• Malay: falkon
• Maltese: falkun m
• Manchu: käi
• Maori: kāeaea
• Navajo: giní
• Norwegian: falk (no) 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: сокол (ru) m (sókol)
• Sardinian: àcchili piscadrixi ?, tilibriu ?, astori perdighinu m
• Scottish Gaelic: seabhag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: соко m, сокол m

  Roman: soko m, (Croatian) sokol m

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

  Lower Sorbian: sokoł m

  Upper Sorbian: sokoł m

• Spanish: halcón (es) m, falcón m
• Swedish: falk (sv) c
• Turkish: doğan (tr), gökdoğan
• Ukrainian: сокіл 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

Alternative forms

• faucon

Noun

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

1. falcon (bird)