gyrfalcon
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gyrfalcon
- /ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən/ UK
- /ˈd͡ʒɝˌfælkən/ US
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From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German gīr (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).
noun gyrfalcons · gerfalcon · gyr falcon · jerfalcon
- 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.
- 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.
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noun Falco rusticolus
| Español | gerifalte, halcón gerifalte, gerifalco |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 쇠황조롱이 soehwangjorong'i |
| 日本語 | シロハヤブサ shirohayabusa |
| 中文 | 海東青 /海东青 hǎidōngqīng, 海青 hǎiqīng, 矛隼 máosǔn, 鶻鷹 /鹘鹰 húyīng |
| Português | gerifalte |
| Français | gerfaut |
| Deutsch | Gierfalke, Geierfalke, Gerfalke, Jagdfalke |
| Italiano | girfalco, girifalco |
| Română | șoim islandez |
| Русский | кре́чет kréčet |
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