Espèce d'oiseau de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, un petit faucon dont le mâle a le dos gris-bleu, la femelle gris-roux.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish esmerejón, esmerijón, calque of Old French esmerillon, diminutive of esmeril, from Medieval Latin smerillus, from Proto-West Germanic *smiril, from Proto-Germanic *smirilaz.
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…