falk

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noun

The razorbill.

OriginGerman Falke ← Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן ← da,no,sv falk →
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Meanings

falk1

nounfalk (plural falks)

plural falks · alternative falc · alternative faik

  1. UKarchaicdialectalThe razorbill.

Falk2

proper nounFalk (countable and uncountable, plural Falks)

plural Falks

  1. countableuncountableA surname.

    They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.

    2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287
    1. countableuncountableA surname from Danish.
    2. countableuncountableA surname from German.
    3. countableuncountableA surname from Norwegian.
    4. countableuncountableA surname from Swedish.
    5. countableuncountableA surname from Yiddish.

      US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are an “epic tag team,” says foreign policy adviser Ophir Falk in a short conversation with The Jerusalem Post.

      2026 March 5, Zvika Klein, “Netanyahu adviser to 'Post': Best way to remove ayatollah threat is to remove ayatollahs”, in The Jerusalem Post, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2026
  2. countableuncountableA ghost town and former logging settlement in Humboldt County, California, United States.
  3. countableuncountableA township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States.

Origin

  1. da,no,svfalk“falcon”
  2. Yiddishפֿאַלקאַן
  3. GermanFalke
  4. EnglishFalk

* As a German, Jewish and Scandinavian/North Germanic surname, from German Falke, Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן (falkan), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish falk (“falcon”). Compare Valk. * As an English surname, variant of Faulks.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

falk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falk

MLA

“falk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falk. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “falk,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/falk.

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