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falconry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfæl.kən.ɹi/
• /ˈfɔːl.kən.ɹi/
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Etymology

From French fauconnerie.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
   • ...looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a night-hawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport. 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods:

Forms

Translations (58)

lt sakalininkystė (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · cmn 馴鷹 /驯鹰 (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · nn falkejakt (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · gv shawkeyrys (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · hi श्येनपालन (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · wa wôtoûsreye (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ky мүнүшкөрчүлүк (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ko 매사냥 (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · kk құсбегілік (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ro falconerie (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ar صَقَارَة (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · fy falkejacht (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · is veiðar með fálkum (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ky шумкарчылык (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · io falkonerio (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · it falconeria (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · da falkeopdræt (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · cs sokolnictví (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · eo falkado (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · bg соколарство (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ja 鷹狩り (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · la falconaria (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · da falkejagt (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · nb falkoneri (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · fi haukkametsästys (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · sl sokolarstvo (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · es cetrería (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ru соколи́ная охо́та (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · pl sokolnictwo (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · mk сокола́рство (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · de Beizjagd (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · he בַּזְיָרוּת (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · kmr bazvanî (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · fr fauconnerie (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ca falconeria (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · cmn 鷹獵 /鹰猎 (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · nl valkerij (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · cmn 放鷹 /放鹰 (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · sh sokolárstvo (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · he בזאות (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · scn falcunirìa (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · fy falkerij (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · sv falkenering (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · la accipitraria (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · wa fåkinreye (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · pt falcoaria (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · de Falknerei (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · hu solymászat (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · br falc'hunerezh (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · ast ccetrería (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · nb falkejakt (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · sv falkjakt (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · tr doğancılık (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · he בזיארות (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · sh сокола́рство (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · is fálkaveiðar (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · fa بازداری (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey) · sk sokoliarstvo (sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey)