köken: From Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin. Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, English kestrel, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning. Derivation from the assumed *Vulgar Latin crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of…
falcon, especially Barbary falcon (Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides) · pointer of a scale
çekim: çoğul شاهینها
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (*šāhēn, literally “majestic, kingly”) and the given name [Inscriptional Pahlavi needed] (šāhēn). By surface analysis, شاه (šâh) + ـین (-in). Compare Middle Armenian շահէն (šahēn) and Old Armenian Շահէն (Šahēn).
köken: From *lačïn (“falcon”), with a prosthetic vowel in Bashkir. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (lačïn, “Falco peregrinus”); Kazakh лашын (laşyn), Kyrgyz ылаачын (ılaacın), Southern Altai ылаачын (ïlaačïn), Shor лачын, Uzbek lochin (“falcon”), etc.
bird of prey, hawk, falcon, buzzard · belligerent person
çekim: çoğul γεράκια · tamlayan γερακιού
köken: From Byzantine Greek γεράκιν (gerákin), from Koine Greek ἱεράκιον (hierákion), diminutive of Ancient Greek ἱέραξ (hiérax). See also ιέρακας (iérakas).
köken: From Middle Mongol ᠱᠣᠩᠬᠤᠷ (šongqur, “falcon”) (> Mongolian шонхор (šonxor, “falcon”)) + 매 (mae, “falcon”), analyzable within Korean as 송골 (songgol, “falcon”) + 매 (mae, “falcon”).
köken: Uncertain, perhaps from a Turkic language -m (nominal suffix). For the root, compare Chagatai چاولی (čavli, “young hawk; sparrow hawk”), Ottoman Turkish چاولی (çavlı, “falcon”). For the -m suffix, compare alom, orom.
falcon · pigeon-toed person, person whose toes point in
çekim: çoğul falcōnēs · tamlayan falcōnis
köken: Uncertain and disputed origin, but probably from Germanic given the early attestation and widespread use of the word in Germanic. Perhaps from Old High German falco, falcho, falucho (“falcon”), from Proto-West Germanic *falkō, from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon", literally, "grey bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *polH-, *pelH- (“grey, bluish”) + *-(u)k-, a suffix found in the names of several…