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Definition for: falcon

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See also falcón

English

Etymology

First attested circa 1250, from Old French faucon , from Late Latin falconem , accusative form of falco , probably from Latin falx

Pronunciation

  • AHD: /fălkən/ or /fôlkən/ or /fôkən/
  • IPA: /'fælkɒn/

Noun

Singular
falcon

Plural
falcons

falcon ( plural falcons )

  1. Any bird of the genus Falco , all of them birds of prey.

Translations

  • Albanian: petriti
  • Basque: belatz handi
  • Belarusian: сапсан
  • Bosnian: soko m .
  • Breton: falc’hun
  • Bulgarian: сокол m .
  • Catalan: falcó
  • Chinese: 獵鷹, 猎鹰
  • Croatian: sokol
  • Czech: sokol
  • Danish: falk c .
  • Dutch: valk m .
  • Esperanto: falko
  • Estonian: pistrik
  • Faroese: ferðafalkur
  • Finnish: haukka
  • French: faucon m .
  • Frisian: falk
  • Friulian: falcon
  • Galician: falcón
  • German: Falke m .
  • Greek: πετρίτης, γεράκι n .
  • Hungarian: sólyom
  • Icelandic: fálki
  • Indonesian: [[]]
  • Irish: fabhcún
  • Italian: falco m . , falcone m .
  • Japanese: 隼
  • Korean: 송골매
  • Ladin: falcon
  • Latin: Falco
  • Latvian: lielais piekūns
  • Lithuanian: sakalas keleivis
  • Lower Sorbian: sokoł
  • Low Saxon: Falk m .
  • Macedonian: сокол (sokol)
  • Maltese: bies
  • Norwegian: falk m .
  • Occitan: moisset
  • Polish: sokół
  • Portuguese: falcão m .
  • Romanian: şoim
  • Romansh: falcun
  • Romany: falkono m .
  • Russian: сокол (sokol) m .
  • Sami: fálli
  • Sardinian: àcchili piscadrixi, tilibriu, astori perdighinu
  • Scottish Gaelic: seabhag
  • Serbian: соко (soko)
  • Slovak: sokol
  • Slovenian: sokol m .
  • Spanish: halcón m .
  • Swedish: falk
  • Turkish: doğan, gökdoğan
  • Ukrainian: сокіл, сапсан (sokil, sapsan)
  • Upper Sorbian: sokoł
  • Welsh: hebog

Related terms

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

Verb

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

Infinitive
to falcon

Third person singular
falcons

Simple past
falconed

Past participle
falconed

Present participle
falconing

  1. To hunt with a falcon or falcons.

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