talon

See also: Talon and talón

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English

Etymology

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ælən
• IPA^(key): /ˈtælən/

Noun

talon (plural talons)

1. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.

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2. (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
3. (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

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5. In the card game bezique, the remaining stock of undealt cards.

Derived terms

• taloned

Translations

hooked claw

• Arabic: مِخْلَب‎ (ar) m (miḵlab)

  Egyptian Arabic: مخلب‎ m (maḵlab)

• Armenian: ճանկ (hy) (čank), ճիրան (hy) (čiran), մագիլ (hy) (magil)
• Azerbaijani: pəncə (az)
• Belarusian: ко́каць m (kókacʹ), кіпцю́р m (kipcjúr)
• Bulgarian: но́кът (bg) m (nókǎt)
• Burmese: လက်သည်း (my) (laksany:)
• Catalan: urpa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 爪 (zh) (zhuǎ, zhǎo), 爪子 (zh) (zhuǎzi)

• Czech: dráp (cs) m
• Dutch: klauw (nl) f
• Finnish: kynsi (fi)
• French: serre (fr) f, griffe (fr) f
• German: Klaue (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὄνυξ m (ónux)

• Hebrew: טופר‎ (he) m (tofer)
• Hindi: पंजा (hi) m (pañjā)
• Irish: gríobh f
• Italian: branca (it) f, grinfia (it) f
• Japanese: 爪 (ja) (つめ, tsume)

• Korean: 발톱 (ko) (baltop)
• Lao: ເລັບ (lo) (lep)
• Macedonian: канџа f (kandža)
• Navajo: áláshgaan
• Persian: چنگال‎ (fa) (čangâl), چنگ‎ (fa) (čang)
• Polish: szpon (pl) m, pazur (pl) m
• Portuguese: garra (pt) f
• Russian: ко́готь (ru) m (kógotʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ìne f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̑нџа f, па̑нџа f

  Roman: kȃndža (sh) f, pȃndža (sh) f

• Slovak: dráp (sk) m
• Slovene: krempelj (sl) m
• Spanish: garra (es) f
• Swedish: klo (sv) c
• Tajik: чангол (tg) (čangol), чанг (tg) (čang)
• Tamil: உகிர் (ta) (ukir)
• Thai: เล็บ (th) (lép)
• Turkish: pençe (tr)
• Ukrainian: кі́готь (uk) m (kíhotʹ)

Anagrams

• Alton, Tolan, Tolna, laton, notal, tonal

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Dupaningan Agta

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talun, from Proto-Austronesian *CaluN. Cognate with Javanese talun (“unirrigated field abandoned after harvest”), Maori taru (“grass, weeds, small vegetation”), Samoan talutalu (“young trees grown up where there had been a plantation”).

Noun

talon

1. forest, jungle, woods, remote area, mountains

Synonyms

• amogud

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Finnish

Noun

talon

1. Genitive singular form of talo.
2. Accusative singular form of talo.

Anagrams

• alton, lotan, tolan

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French

Etymology

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.lɔ̃/

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Noun

talon m (plural talons)

1. heel (part of the foot)
2. backheel
3. heel (of footwear)
4. spur (sharp implement used to prod a horse)
5. (figuratively) the bottom or lower part of something

Derived terms

• talonneur

Descendants

• Portuguese: talão

Further reading

• “talon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.

Noun

talon m (plural talons)

1. (Jersey, anatomy, etc.) heel

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.

Noun

talon m (oblique plural talons, nominative singular talons, nominative plural talon)

1. (Anatomy) heel (of the foot)

Descendants

• English: talon
• French: talon
• Norman: talon (Jersey)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.lɔn/

Noun

talon m inan

1. coupon, voucher

Declension

declension of talon

	singular	plural
nominative	talon	talony
genitive	talonu	talonów
dative	talonowi	talonom
accusative	talon	talony
instrumental	talonem	talonami
locative	talonie	talonach
vocative	talonie	talony

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• talom (literary, first-person plural)
• talont (literary, third-person plural)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtalɔn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːlɔn/, /ˈtalɔn/

Verb

talon

1. (colloquial) first-person plural preterite of talu
2. (colloquial) third-person plural preterite of talu

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
talon	dalon	nhalon	thalon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.