falconer

See also: Falconer

English

Etymology

From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɒl.kən.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈfɔːk.nə(ɹ)/, and similar variations
• IPA^(key): /ˈfælkənɚ/

Noun

falconer (plural falconers)

1. A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
2. One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

Synonyms

• hawker

Related terms

• falconry

Translations

a person who breeds or trains hawks

• Catalan: falconer m
• Dutch: valkenier (nl) m
• French: fauconnier (fr) m
• Georgian: ბაზიერი (bazieri)
• German: Falkner (de) m
• Greek: γερακάρης (el) m (gerakáris)
• Hungarian: solymász (hu), solymár
• Italian: falconiere m
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• Kazakh: құсбегі (qūsbegı)
• Macedonian: сокола́р m (sokolár)
• Manx: shawkeyr m
• Occitan: falconièr (oc) m
• Polish: sokolnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: falcoeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: șoimar (ro) m
• Russian: соко́льник (ru) m (sokólʹnik), соко́льничий (ru) m (sokólʹničij)
• Spanish: halconero (es) m, halconera f

one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks

• German: Falkner (de) m
• Italian: falconiere m
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• Macedonian: сокола́р m (sokolár)
• Spanish: cetrero (es) m, cetrera f

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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} falconiere m
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References

• “falconer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Florance

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Old French

Alternative forms

• fauconer (Anglo-Norman)
• fauconier
• fauconnier

Etymology

falcon +‎ -er.

Noun

falconer oblique singular, m (oblique plural falconers, nominative singular falconers, nominative plural falconer)

1. (Anglo-Norman) falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks)

Descendants

• → English: falconer
• French: fauconnier