different between kalon vs talon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (kalón); related to ?????? (kállos, “beauty”).

Noun

kalon (uncountable)

1. Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *kalon, from Proto-Celtic *kalon? (“heart”). Cognates include Welsh calon and Cornish colon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??.l??n/
• (Gwened) IPA^(key): /ka?lõn/

Noun

kalon f (plural kalonoù or kaloneu)

1. heart
2. courage
3. appetite

Mutation

References

• Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 350

Esperanto

Noun

kalon

1. accusative singular of kalo

Karao

Noun

kalon

1. water buffalo butchered to celebrate a marriage

English

Etymology

From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin t?l?nem, from Vulgar Latin *t?l?nis, from Latin t?lus (“ankle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æl?n
• IPA^(key): /?tæl?n/

Noun

talon (plural talons)

1. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.

   • It may be tried also whether birds may not have something done to them when they are young , whereby they may be made to have greater or longer bills , or greater and longer talons ?

2. (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
3. (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

5. (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.
6. (finance, historical) A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.

Derived terms

• taloned

Translations

Anagrams

• Alton, Laton, Tolan, Tolna, laton, notal, tonal

Dupaningan Agta

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talun, from Proto-Austronesian *CaluN. Cognate with Javanese talun (“unirrigated field abandoned after harvest”), Maori taru (“grass, weeds, small vegetation”), Samoan talutalu (“young trees grown up where there had been a plantation”).

Noun

talon

1. forest, jungle, woods, remote area, mountains

Synonyms

• amogud

Finnish

Noun

talon

1. Genitive singular form of talo.
2. Accusative singular form of talo.

Anagrams

• alton, lotan, tolan

French

Etymology

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.l??/

Noun

talon m (plural talons)

1. heel (part of the foot)
2. backheel
3. heel (of footwear) (especially high heel)
4. spur (sharp implement used to prod a horse)
5. (figuratively) the bottom or lower part of something

Derived terms

Descendants

• Portuguese: talão

Further reading

• “talon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Maranao

Noun

talon

1. herd
2. flock

Derived terms

• tatalonen (“rancher”)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.

Noun

talon m (plural talons)

1. (Jersey, anatomy, etc.) heel

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.

Noun

talon m (oblique plural talons, nominative singular talons, nominative plural talon)

1. (Anatomy) heel (of the foot)

Descendants

• English: talon
• French: talon
• Norman: talon (Jersey)

Polish

Etymology

From French talon, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin t?lus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.l?n/

Noun

talon m inan

1. coupon, voucher

Declension

Derived terms

• talonowicz
• talonowy

Further reading

• talon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.?lon/
• Hyphenation: ta?lon
• Rhymes: -on

Etymology 1

Compare Malay terjun (“to dive, to jump from a high place”).

Noun

talón

1. jump; leap

   Synonyms: lundag, paglundag, igpaw, pag-igpaw, lukso

2. jump or dive into water; plunge

   Synonym: sisid

3. skip or omission, as in typing
4. a kind of bet in sakla (a gambling game)
5. waterfall; falls
6. (slang) prison escapee

   Synonym: takas

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Spanish talón (“heel, check”), from Latin talo, from talus (“ankle; heel”).

Noun

talón

1. stub (of a check, receipt, etc.)

Related terms

• talonaryo

Welsh

Alternative forms

• talom (literary, first-person plural)
• talont (literary, third-person plural)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?tal?n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ta?l?n/, /?tal?n/

Verb

talon

1. (colloquial) first-person plural preterite of talu
2. (colloquial) third-person plural preterite of talu

Mutation