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gyrfalcon en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən/ (UK)
• /ˈd͡ʒɝˌfælkən/ (US)

Etymology

From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German gīr (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
   • For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do. 1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1671, →OCLC, Act IV, page 53:
2. Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
   • [T]he usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its […] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game. 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 132:

Forms

Translations (73)

de Jagdfalke (Falco rusticolus) · ru кре́чет (Falco rusticolus) · az şonqar (Falco rusticolus) · de Gerfalke (Falco rusticolus) · es gerifalte (Falco rusticolus) · sv jaktfalk (Falco rusticolus) · tt шоңкар (Falco rusticolus) · kk сұңқар (Falco rusticolus) · fa لاچین (Falco rusticolus) · it girfalco (Falco rusticolus) · mn жадан шонхор (Falco rusticolus) · mn цагаан шонхор (Falco rusticolus) · pt gerifalte (Falco rusticolus) · it girifalco (Falco rusticolus) · es gerifalco (Falco rusticolus) · de Gierfalke (Falco rusticolus) · fi tunturihaukka (Falco rusticolus) · cy hebog chwyldro (Falco rusticolus) · cs raroh lovecký (Falco rusticolus) · tr akdoğan (Falco rusticolus) · ko 쇠황조롱이 (Falco rusticolus) · lv medību piekūns (Falco rusticolus) · is fálki (Falco rusticolus) · cmn 海青 (Falco rusticolus) · taa xwnoya (Falco rusticolus) · fr gerfaut (Falco rusticolus) · ja シロハヤブサ (Falco rusticolus) · da jagtfalk (Falco rusticolus) · is valur (Falco rusticolus) · kk лашын (Falco rusticolus) · non geirfugl (Falco rusticolus) · no jaktfalk (Falco rusticolus) · cmn 海東青 /海东青 (Falco rusticolus) · mnc ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ ᡤᠠᠰᡥᠠ (Falco rusticolus) · ota آق طوغان (Falco rusticolus) · kum шункъар (Falco rusticolus) · mnc ᡥᠠᡳᠴᡳᠩ (Falco rusticolus) · tfn qenay (Falco rusticolus) · gv shawk Eeslannagh (Falco rusticolus) · de Geierfalke (Falco rusticolus) · ca girfalc (Falco rusticolus) · ro șoim islandez (Falco rusticolus) · gv shawk Greenlannagh (Falco rusticolus) · kl kissaviarsuk (Falco rusticolus) · nv hakʼaz giníłgaii (Falco rusticolus) · ba шоңҡар (Falco rusticolus) · ota شاهباز (Falco rusticolus) · mnc ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ (Falco rusticolus) · eo ĉasfalko (Falco rusticolus) · eo girfalko (Falco rusticolus) · nl giervalk (Falco rusticolus) · uk кре́чет (Falco rusticolus) · cmn 矛隼 (Falco rusticolus) · gv urley bane (Falco rusticolus) · non geirfalki (Falco rusticolus) · cmn 鶻鷹 /鹘鹰 (Falco rusticolus) · hsb běłozor (Falco rusticolus) · taa tthantrena (Falco rusticolus) · tr aksungur (Falco rusticolus) · ca grifó (Falco rusticolus) · ga fabhcún tuaithe (Falco rusticolus) · fo veiðifalkur (Falco rusticolus) · mnc ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᡵᠣ (Falco rusticolus) · es halcón gerifalte (Falco rusticolus) · ca falcó sagrat (Falco rusticolus) · pl białozór (Falco rusticolus) · xdq шургъур (Falco rusticolus) · et jahipistrik (Falco rusticolus) · se rievssatfálli (Falco rusticolus) · gd seabhag-mhòr-na-seilge (Falco rusticolus) · bg северен сокол (Falco rusticolus) · pl krzeczot (Falco rusticolus) · be крэ́чат (Falco rusticolus)