falk

See also: Falk

English

Alternative forms

Noun

falk (plural falks)

  1. (Britain, dialect) The razorbill.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for falk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /falk/, [falˀɡ̊]

Noun

falk c (singular definite falken, plural indefinite falke)

  1. falcon (bird of the genus Falco)

Inflection

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German valk, via Old Norse falkr; compare with German Falke

Noun

falk m (definite singular falken, indefinite plural falker, definite plural falkene)

  1. a falcon (bird of the genus Falco)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German valk, via Old Norse falkr; compare with German Falke

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɑlk/

Noun

falk m (definite singular falken, indefinite plural falkar, definite plural falkane)

  1. a falcon, all birds in the genus Falco, most birds in the family Falconidae

References

Swedish

falk

Etymology

From Old Norse falki, from Middle Low German valke, falke, from Old Saxon falko, from Proto-Germanic *falkô. Compare German Falke, English falcon.

Pronunciation

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Noun

falk c

  1. falcon (bird of the genus Falco)

Declension

Declension of falk 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative falk falken falkar falkarna
Genitive falks falkens falkars falkarnas

Compounds

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