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Meaning of Gyrfalcon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən

Definitions

Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
obsolete
Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.

Equivalents

العربية السّنقر - نوع من الصقور

Català falcó sagrat girfalc grifó

Dansk jagtfalk

Deutsch Geierfalke Gerfalke Gierfalke Jagdfalke

Esperanto ĉasfalko

Español gerifalco gerifalte halcón gerifalte

Suomi tunturihaukka

Français gerfaut

Gaeilge fabhcún tuaithe

Gàidhlig seabhag-mhòr-na-seilge

Íslenska fálki valur

Italiano girfalco girifalco

日本語シロハヤブサ

Қазақ тілі лашын сұңқар

한국어 쇠황조롱이

Монгол жадан шонхор цагаан шонхор

Nederlands giervalk

Polski białozór krzeczot

Português gerifalte

Русский кречет

Svenska jaktfalk

Türkçe akdoğan Aksungur

Українська кречет

Examples

“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.”

“[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.”

CEFR level

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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