falcon · war hawk (supporter of aggressive or warlike foreign policy)
çekim: çoğul faucons
köken: Inherited from Middle French faulcon, from Old French falcun (“falcon”), from Late Latin falcōnem, accusative form of falcō (“falcon”), probably of Germanic origin.
köken: From Old French girfaut, gerfault or Provençal gerfalt, gerfalc, both from Old Norse geirfalki, from geiri (“a type of dart”) + falki (“hawk”) (because of the resemblance to the bird's plumage).
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 *šuŋqar (“falco”), probably from a Mongolic source, compare Mongolian шонхор (šonxor, “falco”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (šuŋqar, “Falco gyrfalco”); Tatar шоңкар (şoñqar, “falcon”), Kazakh сұңқар (sūñqar, “falcon”), Kyrgyz шумкар (şumkar, “Falco rusticolus”), Uzbek shunqor (“Falco rusticolus”). Further, the mentioned Mongolic archetype may have been borrowed from a Turkic…
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”).
A bird of prey of the taxonomic family Falconidae, which includes eleven genera of falcons, falconets and caracaras; (in the plural) the family Falconidae. · A bird of the genus Falco within the family Falconidae, which includes falcons, kestrels, hobbies, and the merlin; (in the plural) the genus Falco.
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.