• Bosnian: jastreb
• Croatian: jastreb
• Czech: jestřáb
• Dutch: havik
• Finnish: haukka
• French: faucon
• German: Habicht
• Greek, Modern: γεράκι
• Hungarian: héja
• Icelandic: haukur
• Indonesian: rajawali
• Italian: falco
• Japanese: 鷹, タカ
• Lithuanian: vanagas
• Macedonian: јастреб
• Polish: jastrząb
• Portuguese: gavião
• Russian: ястреб
• Scottish Gaelic: clamhan , seabhag
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: јастреб

  Roman: jastreb

• Slovene: jastreb
• Spanish: halcón
• Swedish: hök
• Ukrainian: яструб
• West Frisian: hauk

• Dutch: havik
• French: faucon
• Italian: falco
• Japanese: 鷹派/タカ派 (たかは、takaha)
• Polish: jastrząb
• Russian: милитатрист (militaríst)
• Slovene: jastreb
• Swedish: hök

Translations to be checked

• ttbc Catalan: falcó
• ttbc Cherokee: ᏙᏬᏗ (dowodi)
• ttbc Chinese: 鹰 (yīng)，隼 (sǔn)
• ttbc Esperanto: akcipitro
• ttbc Latin: accipiter
• ttbc Low Saxon (Low German): Havik, Haavk
• ttbc Norwegian: hauk m
• ttbc Romanian: şoim
• ttbc Spanish: gavilán
• ttbc Telugu: డేగ (Daega)
• ttbc Turkish: doğan

Verb

1. To hunt with a hawk.

Translations

Derived terms

• hawk after
• hawk at
• hawk for
• hawking

Etymology 2

Noun

1. A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on.

Derived terms

• hawk boy, hawk-boy

Translations

Etymology 3

back-form hawker

Verb

1. To sell.

   The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.

Translations

Derived terms

• hawked
• hawking
• hawky

Related terms

• hawker

Etymology 4

Verb

1. To forcibly attempt to cough up (phlegm).

   Jim hawked up some spit and spat it on the sidewalk.

2. To clear the throat loudly.

   Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.

Translations

Derived terms

• hawking

See also

• Hawkshaw, hawkshaw
• Hawkubite
• winkle-hawk

The term hawk can be used in several ways:

• In strict usage in Europe and Asia, to mean any of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae in the genera Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis. The large and widespread Accipiter includes goshawks, sparrowhawks , the Sharp-shinned Hawk and others. These are mainly woodland birds with long tails and high visual acuity, hunting by sudden dashes from a concealed perch.

• More generally (especially in North America) to mean small to medium-sized members of (often) the Falconidae, Pandionidae (the Osprey) and the Accipitridae - the family which includes the "true hawks" (Accipiters) as well as eagles, kites, harriers and buzzards.

• Loosely, to mean almost any bird of prey outside of the order Strigiformes (owls).

The common names of birds in various parts of the world often use hawk in the second sense. For example, the Osprey or "fish hawk"; or, in North America, the various Buteo species (e.g., the Red-tailed Hawk, B. jamaicensis).

In February 2005, Canadian ornithologist Louis Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian "IQ" in terms of their innovation in feeding habits.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/nsae-bit021605.php Hawks were named among the most intelligent birds based on his scale.

Hawks are widely reputed to have visual acuity several times that of a normal human being. This is due to the many photoreceptors in the retina (up to 1,000,000 per square mm for Buteo, against 200,000 for humans), an exceptional number of nerves connecting these receptors to the brain, and an indented fovea, which magnifies the central portion of the visual field.

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