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 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.