Meanings
nounfalconry (countable and uncountable, plural falconries)
plural falconries
- countableuncountableThe sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
1 more example
...looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a night-hawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport.
1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Origin
- Frenchfauconnerie
- Englishfalconry
From French fauconnerie.
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Arabic صَقَارَة
- صَقَارَة (ṣaqāra)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Bulgarian соколарство
- соколарство (sokolarstvo)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Catalan falconeria
- falconeriasport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Chinese Mandarin 鷹獵 /鹰猎, 放鷹 /放鹰
- 鷹獵 /鹰猎 (yīngliè)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- 放鷹 /放鹰 (fàngyīng)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- 馴鷹 /驯鹰 (xùnyīng)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Czech sokolnictví
- sokolnictvísport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Danish falkejagt, falkeopdræt
- falkejagtsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- falkeopdrætsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Dutch valkerij
- valkerijsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Esperanto falkado
- falkadosport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Finnish haukkametsästys
- haukkametsästyssport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
French fauconnerie
- fauconneriesport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
German Beizjagd, Falknerei
- Beizjagdsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- Falknereisport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Hebrew בַּזְיָרוּת, בזאות
- בַּזְיָרוּת (bazyarút)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- בזאותsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- בזיארותsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Hindi श्येनपालन
- श्येनपालन (śyenpālan)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Hungarian solymászat
- solymászatsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Icelandic fálkaveiðar, veiðar með fálkum
- fálkaveiðarsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- veiðar með fálkumsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Italian falconeria
- falconeriasport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Japanese 鷹狩り
- 鷹狩り (takagari)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Korean 매사냥
- 매사냥 (maesanyang)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Latin falconaria, accipitraria
- falconariasport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- accipitrariasport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Lithuanian sakalininkystė
- sakalininkystėsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Norwegian Bokmål falkoneri, falkejakt
- falkonerisport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- falkejaktsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Persian بازداری
- بازداری (bâzdâri)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Polish sokolnictwo
- sokolnictwosport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Portuguese falcoaria
- falcoariasport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Romanian falconerie
- falconeriesport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Russian соколи́ная охо́та
- соколи́ная охо́та (sokolínaja oxóta)sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Slovak sokoliarstvo
- sokoliarstvosport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Spanish cetrería
- cetreríasport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Swedish falkjakt, falkenering
- falkjaktsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
- falkeneringsport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
Turkish doğancılık
- doğancılıksport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
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