A common kestrel .
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Etymology
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From Middle English castrel ( “ staniel, bird of prey ” ) , from Middle French cresserelle , crecerelle ( “ bird of prey ” ) , usually assumed to be from crecelle ( “ rattle, wooden reel ” ) (modern crécelle ), of obscure origin.
Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f , French crécerelle f and cristel m , Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m , all sharing the same meaning.
Derivation from the assumed Vulgar Latin *crepicella , *crepitacillum , a diminutive of crepitāculum , from crepitāre ( “ to crackle ” ) is difficult to explain from a morphological point of view.
Instead, possibly from a root *krek- , *krak- ( “ to crack, rattle, creak, emit a bird cry ” ) , from Middle Dutch crāken ( “ to creak, crack ” ) , from Old Dutch *krakōn ( “ to crack, creak, emit a cry ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn , from Proto-Germanic *krakōną ( “ to emit a cry, shout ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- ( “ to shout ” ) . Cognate with Old High German krahhōn ( “ to make a sound, crash ” ) , Old English cracian ( “ to resound ” ) , French craquer ( “ to emit a repeated cry, used of birds ” ) . More at creak , crack .
Pronunciation
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kestrel (plural kestrels )
Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
1917 , John Masefield, Up on the Downs :Up on the downs the red-eyed kestrels hover, Eyeing the grass. The field mouse flits like a shadow into cover As their shadows pass.
The common kestrel , Falco tinnunculus .
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Derived terms
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American kestrel , Falco sparverius banded kestrel , Falco zoniventris common kestrel , Falco tinnunculus Dickinson's kestrel , Falco dickinsoni fox kestrel , Falco alopex greater kestrel , Falco rupicoloides grey kestrel , Falco ardosiaceus lesser kestrel , Falco naumanni Malagasy kestrel , Falco newtoni Mauritius kestrel , Falco punctatus nankeen kestrel Nankeen kestrel , Falco cenchroides Seychelles kestrel , Falco araeus spotted kestrel , Falco moluccensis
Translations
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any small falcon of genus Falco
Afrikaans: valk
Breton: falc'hun
Bulgarian: сокол (bg) m ( sokol )
Catalan: falcó (ca) m
Czech: poštolka (cs) f
Danish: falk (da) c
Dutch: valk (nl) m
Esperanto: falko
Faroese: falkur m , smyril m
Finnish: jalohaukka (fi) , haukka (fi)
French: crécerelle (fr) f , cristel (fr) m
Friulian: falcon m
Galician: falcón m , tartaraña f
German: Falke (de) m
Greek: κιρκινέζι (el) n ( kirkinézi )
Ancient: κέρχνη f ( kérkhnē )
Hungarian: vércse (hu)
Icelandic: fálki (is) m , haukur (is) , valur (is)
Ido: falkono (io)
Irish: pocaire gaoithe (ga) m
Italian: falco (it) m , falcone (it) m , falchetto m
Kashmiri: بٕہٕر ( bụhụr ) , بٕۂر ( bụhạr )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شاھین ( shAheen )
Ladin: falcon m
Latin: falco m
Low German: Falk m
Lower Sorbian: sokoł m
Luxembourgish: Kréchel
Macedonian: сокол m ( sokol )
Neapolitan: castariello m , crestariello m
Norwegian: falk (no) , hauk (no)
Polish: sokół (pl) m
Portuguese: falcão (pt) m
Romani: falkono m
Romansch: creivel , falcun
Russian: пустельга́ (ru) ( pustelʹgá )
Scottish Gaelic: speireag ruadh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: соко m ( Bosnia, Serbia ) , сокол m ( Croatia )
Roman: soko (sh) m ( Bosnia, Serbia ) , sokol (sh) m ( Croatia )
Slovak: sokol (sk) m
Slovene: sokol (sl) f
Spanish: cernícalo (es) m
Swedish: falk (sv) c
Turkish: kerkenez (tr)
Ukrainian: сокіл m ( sokil ) , сапсан m ( sapsan )
Upper Sorbian: sokoł m
Welsh: cudyll m , cudyllod m pl
West Frisian: falk m
Falco tinnunculus
Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: بوعميرة ( boʕemira )
Asturian: peñerina (ast) , aviquina (ast) , peñereru (ast)
Belarusian: звычайнага пустальга ( zvyčajnaha pustalʹha )
Breton: falc’hun logotaer
Bulgarian: черношипа ветрушка ( černošipa vetruška ) , керкенез (bg) ( kerkenez )
Catalan: xoriguer (ca) m , xoriguer gros m , xoriguer comú m
Chinese:
Hokkien: 紅鷹 / 红鹰 ( âng-eng ) , 茶隼 ( tê-chún )
Mandarin: 紅隼 / 红隼 (zh) ( hóngzhǔn ) , 茶隼 (zh) ( cházhǔn ) , 紅鷹 / 红鹰 ( hóngyīng )
Czech: poštolka obecná f
Danish: tårnfalk (da)
Dutch: torenvalk (nl) m
Esperanto: turfalko , kestrelo
Estonian: tuuletallaja
Faroese: grýtissmyril m , tornfalkur m
Finnish: tuulihaukka (fi)
French: faucon crécerelle (fr) m , crécerelle (fr) f
Galician: lagarteiro m , peneireiro m
German: Turmfalke (de) m
Greek: βραχοκιρκίνεζο n ( vrachokirkínezo )
Ancient Greek: κέρχνη f ( kérkhnē )
Hungarian: vörös vércse (hu)
Icelandic: turnfálki (is)
Irish: bod gaoithe (ga) m , bodaire gaoithe (ga) m , pocaire gaoithe (ga) m , pocaire gaoithe coiteann (ga) m , seabhac buí (ga) m , seabhac gaoithe (ga) m
Italian: gheppio (it) m
Korean: 황조롱이 ( hwangjorong'i )
Lithuanian: pelėsakalis (lt)
Neapolitan: castariello m
Norwegian: tårnfalk
Persian: دلیجه ( dalije )
Polish: pustułka (pl) f
Portuguese: peneireiro-vulgar m
Romanian: vindereu (ro) m , vânturel (ro) m
Romansch: ( Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan ) crivel , ( Surmiran ) creivel m , ( Vallader ) cribel m , ( Sursilvan ) falcun m , ( Surmiran ) feila l'ora f , ( Puter, Vallader ) falcun brün m , ( Puter, Vallader ) filadè m , ( Vallader ) battalaura f
Russian: пустельга́ обыкнове́нная f ( pustelʹgá obyknovénnaja ) , пустельга́ (ru) f ( pustelʹgá )
Scottish Gaelic: clamhan ruadh m
Slovak: sokol myšiar
Slovene: navádna postôvka f
Spanish: cernícalo común m
Swedish: tornfalk (sv) c
Telugu: నామవాచకం ( nāmavācakaṁ )
Turkish: bayağı kerkenez (tr)
Ukrainian: боривітер (uk) ( boryviter ) , постільга ( postilʹha )
Vietnamese: chim cắt (vi)
Walloon: cressale (wa) f
Welsh: cudyll coch
West Frisian: reade wikel
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