peregrine falcon

English

Pronunciation

A peregrine falcon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn ˈfælkən/, /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn ˈfɔː(l)kən/

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Noun

peregrine falcon (plural peregrine falcons)

1. A medium-sized, very swift falcon, of species Falco peregrinus, that hunts small birds.

Synonyms

• (Falco peregrinus): duck hawk, peregrine, peregrine hawk

Translations

Falco peregrinus

• Afrikaans: swerfvalk
• Albanian: petriti
• Arabic: شَاهِين (šāhīn)
• Armenian: իսկական բազե (iskakan baze)

  Middle Armenian: շահէն (šahēn)

• Asturian: ferre palomberu (ast), palomberu (ast), ferre moru (ast)
• Basque: belatz handi
• Belarusian: сапса́н m (sapsán)
• Breton: falc’hun kantreat
• Bulgarian: со́кол ски́тник m (sókol skítnik)
• Burarra: del
• Catalan: falcó pelegrí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 游隼 (yóusǔn)

• Czech: sokol stěhovavý m
• Danish: vandrefalk (da) c
• Dutch: slechtvalk (nl) m
• Esperanto: migra falko, pilgrima falko
• Estonian: rabapistrik (et)
• Faroese: ferðafalkur
• Finnish: muuttohaukka (fi), jalohaukka (fi)
• French: faucon pèlerin (fr) m
• Friulian: falcon
• Galician: falcón peregrino
• German: Wanderfalke (de) m
• Greek: πετρίτης (el) m (petrítis)
• Greenlandic: kiinaaleeraq
• Hindi: शाहीन (śāhīn)
• Hungarian: vándorsólyom (hu)
• Icelandic: förufálki (is)
• Irish: fabhcún gorm (ga) m, seabhac gorm m, seabhac seilge m
• Italian: falco pellegrino m
• Japanese: 隼 (ja) (hayabusa), ハヤブサ (ja) (hayabusa)
• Kazakh: лашын (laşyn)
• Korean: 매 (ko) (mae), 송골매 (ko) (songgolmae)
• Kumyk: лачин (laçin), къарчыгъа (qarçığa)
• Ladin: falcon
• Latvian: lielais piekūns
• Lithuanian: sakalas keleivis
• Lower Sorbian: sokoł
• Lule Sami: unnep rievsakhábak
• Luxembourgish: Spuervull m
• Macedonian: сив со́кол m (siv sókol)
• Maltese: bies
• Manx: shirragh y ree m
• Navajo: ginízhiin
• Norman: êcouffl'ye m
• Northern Sami: bárbmofálli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vandrefalk (no) m

  Nynorsk: vandrefalk m

• Occitan: moisset pelegrin m
• Ottoman Turkish: شاهین (şahin)
• Persian: شاهین (fa) (šâhin)
• Polish: sokół wędrowny (pl) m
• Portuguese: falcão peregrino m
• Punjabi: ਬਹਿਰੀ f (bahirī)
• Romani: falkono m
• Romanian: șoim călător
• Romansch: falcun pelegrin m
• Russian: сапса́н (ru) m (sapsán), настоя́щий со́кол m (nastojáščij sókol)
• Sami: bárbmofálli
• Sardinian: àcchili piscadrixi, tilibriu, astori perdighinu
• Scottish Gaelic: seabhag-ghorm f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сиви соко m

  Roman: sivi soko (sh) m

• Slovak: sokol sťahovavý (sk) m
• Slovene: sokol selec (sl) m
• Spanish: halcón peregrino m
• Swedish: pilgrimsfalk (sv)
• Turkish: doğan (tr), gökdoğan (tr)
• Ukrainian: сапса́н m (sapsán), со́кіл m (sókil)
• Upper Sorbian: sokoł
• Urdu: شاہین (śāhīn)
• Welsh: hebog tramor
• West Frisian: Noardske falk c, sljochtfalk c

Further reading

• peregrine falcon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia