different between asia vs gyrfalcon

Ese

Noun

asia

1. scabies

Finnish

(index as)

Alternative forms

• asja (dialectal)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *acja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??si?/, [??s?i?]
• Rhymes: -?si?
• Syllabification: a?si?a

Noun

asia

1. issue, matter, affair, concern, business, subject, case, thing

2. court case

3. (usually in the plural) errand

Declension

Synonyms

• juttu

Derived terms

Compounds

See also

• kuulua

Anagrams

• -aasi, Aias, aasi, aisa

Gothic

Romanization

asia

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.si.a/, [?äs?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.si.a/, [???s?i?]

Noun

asia f (genitive asiae); first declension

1. A kind of rye

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• asia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• gerfalcon, jerfalcon

Etymology

From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German g?r (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???f??lk?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d???fælk?n/

Noun

gyrfalcon (plural gyrfalcons)

1. (obsolete) Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
2. Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 132:

     [...] the usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its [...] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game.

Translations

Further reading

• Falco rusticolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies