falcon
UK/ˈfɔː(l)kən//ˈfælkən/
falcon noun: any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
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Noun
falcon (plural falcons)
Verb
falcon (third-person singular simple present falcons, present participle falconing, simple past and past participle falconed)
- To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
- He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175
Proper noun capitalized: Falcon
Falcon (countable and uncountable, plural Falcons)
- A surname from Spanish.
- A surname, from Native Indigenous Amerindian languages.
- An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
- A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
- A town in Cumberland County and Sampson County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in McNairy County, Tennessee.
- A suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia.
falcon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
falcon in Hindi
- bird of the genus Falco
- बाज़ bāz, बाज bāj, श्येन śyen
falcon in Tamil
- bird of the genus Falco
- வல்லூறு vallūṟu
falcon in Urdu
- bird of the genus Falco
- باز bāz, شاہین śāhīn, عقاب 'uqāb, چیل cīl
falcon in Bengali
- বাজপাখি
More languagesFewer languages
- falcon in Telugu
- డేగ ḍēga
- falcon in Kannada
- ಗಿಡುಗ giḍuga
- falcon in Sanskrit
- श्येन śyena
- falcon in Assamese
- চিলনী siloni, শেন চৰাই xen sorai
- falcon in Tagalog
- palkon
- falcon in Arabic
- صَقْر ṣaqr, شَاهِين šāhīn
- falcon in Malay
- falkon
- falcon in Indonesian
- alap-alap
- falcon in Persian
- شاهین šâhin
- falcon in Vietnamese
- cắt
Examples of falcon in a sentence
- His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible.
- Falcons circling overhead have two eyes, just like hammerhead sharks roving through the ocean.
- "Falcon 9 is a real rocket, most of which is at Cape Canaveral right now."
Forms of falcon
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | falcons |
| alternative form (obsolete) | faulcon |
| alternative form (obsolete) | faucon |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | falcons |
| present participle | falconing |
| past participle | falconed |
| past | falconed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Falcons |
Origin of falcon
Inherited from Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”). Cognates Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.
* From Spanish Falcón * Calque from Amerindian languages, for the bird falcon.
Words formed from falcon
- Amur falcon
- aplomado falcon
- Barbary falcon
- Berigora falcon
- black falcon
- blue falcon
- brown falcon
- Eleonora's falcon
- falcon-eyed
- falconish
- falconlike
- falconologist
- forest falcon
- golden falcon name
- gray falcon
- grey falcon
- lanner falcon
- laughing falcon
- New Zealand falcon
- Peale's falcon
- peregrine falcon
- prairie falcon
- pygmy falcon
- red-footed falcon
- Saker falcon
- shaheen falcon
- stone falcon
Phrases with falcon
Questions about falcon
- What does falcon mean?
- Falcon means any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
- What is falcon in Hindi?
- Falcon in Hindi is बाज़ (bāz), बाज (bāj), श्येन (śyen). See Falcon meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is falcon?
- Falcon can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce falcon?
- Falcon is pronounced /ˈfɔː(l)kən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of falcon?
- The plural of falcon is falcons.
Words near falcon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: falcon (page history and authors); Falcon (page history and authors); falcon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಗಿಡುಗ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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