Dictionary

saker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈseɪkə/ (UK)
• sāʹkə (UK)
• /ˈseɪkɚ/ (General-American)
• sāʹkər (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English sacre, from Middle French sacre, from Old Spanish sacro, from Arabic صَقْر (ṣaqr).

Meanings

1. A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
2. A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century.
   • Of warlike engines he was author, / Devised for quick despatch of slaughter: / The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker, / He was th' inventor of, and maker: […] 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
   • This place of strength vvas furnished of sixe great peeces, demi-Culuerins, and Sakers, vvhich shot directlie in front vpon vs as vve approched. 1589, Walter Bigges, A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage:
   • Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie. 1616, M. Robert Anton, “The Philosophers fovrth Satyr of Mars”, in The Philosophers Satyrs, London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] and B[ernard] A[lsop] for Roger Iackſon, page 36:

Forms

Synonyms

Saker falcon

Translations (18)

fi aavikkohaukka (falcon) · sq krahëthadër e kuqe (falcon) · ky ителги (falcon) · pl raróg (falcon) · et stepipistrik (falcon) · ga fabhcún Saker (falcon) · ro șoim dunărean (falcon) · ru балоба́н (falcon) · hu kerecsensólyom (falcon) · fa چرغ (falcon) · az ütəlgi (falcon) · fr faucon sacre (falcon) · sv tatarfalk (falcon) · es halcón sacre (falcon) · ca falcó sacre (falcon) · fa بالابان (falcon) · bg ловен сокол (falcon) · de Sakerfalke (falcon)