falk

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Falk^¹

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* As a German, Jewish and Scandinavian/North Germanic surname, from German Falke, Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן (falkan), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish falk (“falcon”). Compare Valk.

* As an English surname, variant of Faulks.

proper noun Falks

countable, uncountable A surname. They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.
countable, uncountable A surname from Danish.
countable, uncountable A surname from German.
countable, uncountable A surname from Norwegian.
countable, uncountable A surname from Swedish.
countable, uncountable A surname from Yiddish. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are an “epic tag team,” says foreign policy adviser Ophir Falk in a short conversation with The Jerusalem Post.
countable, uncountable A ghost town and former logging settlement in Humboldt County, California, United States.
countable, uncountable A township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States.

falk^²

noun falks · falc · faik

UK, archaic, dialectal The razorbill.

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@misc{falk_2026,
  title = {falk},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/falk},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}