falconer

See also: Falconer

English

Etymology

From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒl.kən.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈfɔːk.nə(ɹ)/, and similar variations
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfælkənɚ/

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Noun

falconer (plural falconers)

1. A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:

     And to add force to his remonstrances, he conferred a cuff or two on the negligent attendant of the hawks, who, shouting rather louder than was necessary under all the circumstances, brought the master falconer to his assistance.

2. One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

Synonyms

• hawker

Related terms

• falconry

Translations

a person who breeds or trains hawks

• Catalan: falconer m
• Dutch: valkenier (nl) m
• Finnish: haukankasvattaja, haukkametsästäjä
• French: fauconnier (fr) m
• Georgian: ბაზიერი (bazieri)
• German: Falkner (de) m
• Greek: γερακάρης (el) m (gerakáris)
• Hungarian: solymász (hu), solymár (hu)
• Italian: falconiere m
• Kazakh: құсбегі (qūsbegı)
• Macedonian: сокола́р m (sokolár)
• Manx: shawkeyr m
• Occitan: falconièr (oc) m
• Ottoman Turkish: طوغانجی (doğancı)
• Polish: sokolnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: falcoeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: șoimar (ro) m
• Russian: соко́льник (ru) m (sokólʹnik), соко́льничий (ru) m (sokólʹničij)
• Spanish: halconero (es) m, halconera f

one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks

• Finnish: haukkametsästyksen seuraaja
• German: Falkner (de) m
• Italian: falconiere m
• Macedonian: сокола́р m (sokolár)
• Spanish: cetrero (es) m, cetrera f

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} falconiere m

References

• “falconer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Florance

Old French

Alternative forms

• fauconer (Anglo-Norman)
• fauconier
• fauconnier

Etymology

falcon +‎ -er.

Noun

falconer oblique singular, m (oblique plural falconers, nominative singular falconers, nominative plural falconer)

1. (Anglo-Norman) falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks)

Descendants

• → English: falconer
• French: fauconnier