köken: Inherited from Middle French esprevier, which see. Cognate with Old High German sparwari (whence German Sperber), Middle Dutch sperware (whence Dutch sperwer), Middle Low German sperwere, all meaning “sparrow hawk”. Compare also Italian sparviere and English sparrow hawk.
falcon (diurnal bird of prey in Falconidae and especially in Falco) · spotter employed by drug dealers to keep watch on the street · hawk, hardliner (firm, uncompromising advocate of aggressive political positions)
çekim: çoğul halcones
köken: Inherited from Late Latin falcōnem, probably of Germanic origin. Doublet of falcón.
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”).
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.