noun
Meaning 1
A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Saker falcon
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
saker
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: sāʹkə
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UK: /ˈseɪkə/
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General-American: sāʹkər
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General-American: /ˈseɪkɚ/
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rhymes with (UK) -eɪkə
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CMU ARPABET: S EY1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English sacre, from Middle French sacre, from Old Spanish sacro, from Arabic صَقْر (ṣaqr).
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: krahëthadër e kuqe — falcon
- Azerbaijani: ütəlgi — falcon
- Bulgarian: ловен сокол (loven sokol) — falcon
- Catalan: falcó sacre — falcon
- Estonian: stepipistrik — falcon
- Finnish: aavikkohaukka — falcon
- French: faucon sacre — falcon
- German: Sakerfalke — falcon
- Hungarian: kerecsensólyom — falcon
- Irish: fabhcún Saker — falcon
- Kyrgyz: ителги (itelgi) — falcon
- Persian: بالابان (bâlâbân) — falcon
- Persian: چرغ (čarġ) — falcon
- Polish: raróg — falcon
- Romanian: șoim dunărean — falcon
- Russian: балоба́н (balobán) — falcon
- Spanish: halcón sacre — falcon
- Swedish: tatarfalk — falcon