gyrfalcon

English

Alternative forms

gerfalcon, jerfalcon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝˌfælkən/

Noun

gyrfalcon (plural gyrfalcons)

(obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
- 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 228723624, Act IV, page 53:
  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.
Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 132:
  [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.

Translations

falcon — see falcon

Falco rusticolus

Bashkir: шоңҡар (şoŋqar)
Belarusian: крэ́чат m (kréčat)
Bulgarian: северен сокол m (severen sokol)
Catalan: girfalc m, falcó sagrat m, grifó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 海東青／海东青 (zh) (hǎidōngqīng), 海青 (hǎiqīng), 矛隼 (máosǔn), 鶻鷹／鹘鹰 (húyīng)
Czech: raroh lovecký m
Danish: jagtfalk (da) c
Dutch: giervalk (nl) m
Esperanto: ĉasfalko, girfalko
Estonian: jahipistrik (et)
Faroese: veiðifalkur m
Finnish: tunturihaukka (fi)
French: gerfaut (fr) m
German: Gierfalke m, Geierfalke m, Gerfalke (de) m, Jagdfalke m
Greenlandic: kissaviarsuk
Icelandic: fálki (is) m, valur (is) m
Irish: fabhcún tuaithe m
Italian: girfalco m, girifalco m
Japanese: シロハヤブサ (ja) (shirohayabusa)
Kazakh: сұңқар (sūñqar), лашын (laşyn)
Korean: 쇠황조롱이 (soehwangjorong'i)
Kumyk: шункъар (şunqar)
Latvian: medību piekūns
Manchu: ᡥᠠᡳᠴᡳᠩ (haicing), ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ (šongkon), ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ
ᡤᠠᠰᡥᠠ (šongkon gasha), ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᡵᠣ (šongkoro)
Manx: shawk Eeslannagh m, shawk Greenlannagh m, urley bane m
Mongolian: цагаан шонхор (cagaan šonxor), жадан шонхор (žadan šonxor)
Navajo: hakʼaz giníłgaii
Northern Sami: rievssatfálli
Norwegian: jaktfalk (no) m
Old Norse: geirfalki m, geirfugl m
Ottoman Turkish: آق طوغان‎ (ak doğan), شاهباز‎ (şahbaz)
Persian: لاچین‎ (fa) (lâčin)
Polish: białozór (pl) m, krzeczot m
Portuguese: gerifalte m
Romanian: șoim islandez m
Russian: кре́чет (ru) m (kréčet)
Scottish Gaelic: seabhag-mhòr-na-seilge f
Spanish: gerifalte (es) m, halcón gerifalte (es) m, gerifalco m
Swedish: jaktfalk (sv) c
Tatar: шоңкар (tt) (şoñkar)
Turkish: aksungur (tr), akdoğan (tr)
Ukrainian: кре́чет (uk) m (kréčet)
Welsh: hebog chwyldro m

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