"talon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtælən/ Audio: En-us-talon.ogg [US] Forms: talons [plural]
Rhymes: -ælən Etymology: From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Vulgar Latin *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|talon}} Middle English talon, {{m|enm|taloun}} taloun, {{der|en|fro|talon|t=heel, spur}} Old French talon (“heel, spur”), {{der|en|ML.|tālōnem}} Medieval Latin tālōnem, {{der|en|VL.|*tālōnis}} Vulgar Latin *tālōnis, {{der|en|la|tālus|t=ankle}} Latin tālus (“ankle”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} talon (plural talons)
  1. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal. Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts Translations (hooked claw): ὄνυξ (ónux) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), مِخْلَب (miḵlab) [masculine] (Arabic), مخلب (maḵlab) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), ճանկ (čank) (Armenian), ճիրան (čiran) (Armenian), մագիլ (magil) (Armenian), pəncə (Azerbaijani), ко́каць (kókacʹ) [masculine] (Belarusian), кіпцю́р (kipcjúr) [masculine] (Belarusian), но́кът (nókǎt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), လက်သည်း (laksany:) (Burmese), urpa [feminine] (Catalan), (zhuǎ, zhǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 爪子 (zhuǎzi) (Chinese Mandarin), dráp [masculine] (Czech), klo [common-gender] (Danish), klauw [feminine] (Dutch), kynsi (Finnish), serre [feminine] (French), griffe [feminine] (French), Klaue [feminine] (German), טופר (tofer) [masculine] (Hebrew), पंजा (pañjā) [masculine] (Hindi), karom (Hungarian), gríobh [feminine] (Irish), branca [feminine] (Italian), grinfia [feminine] (Italian), (tsume) (alt: つめ) (Japanese), 발톱 (baltop) (Korean), ເລັບ (lep) (Lao), unguis [masculine] (Latin), канџа (kandža) [feminine] (Macedonian), taloun (Middle English), áláshgaan (Navajo), klo [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), چنك (çenk) (Ottoman Turkish), پنچه (pençe) (Ottoman Turkish), چنگال (čangâl) (Persian), چنگ (čang) (Persian), szpon [masculine] (Polish), pazur [masculine] (Polish), garra [feminine] (Portuguese), ко́готь (kógotʹ) [masculine] (Russian), ìne [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), ка̑нџа [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), па̑нџа [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kȃndža [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pȃndža [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), dráp [masculine] (Slovak), krempelj [masculine] (Slovene), garra [feminine] (Spanish), klo [common-gender] (Swedish), чангол (čangol) (Tajik), чанг (čang) (Tajik), உகிர் (ukir) (Tamil), เล็บ (lép) (Thai), กรงเล็บ (grong-lép) (Thai), pençe (Turkish), кі́готь (kíhotʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), pençe (diq) [common-gender] (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-talon-en-noun-8CYiRy8K Disambiguation of Animal body parts: 45 18 4 4 9 20 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 12 3 2 11 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 38 16 5 4 9 27 Disambiguation of 'hooked claw': 70 7 6 6 3 8
  2. (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-talon-en-noun-NKJm-8E8 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  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.) Categories (topical): Architecture
    Sense id: en-talon-en-noun-pXYFxNAA Topics: architecture
  4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
    Sense id: en-talon-en-noun-t2yHyv7s
  5. (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards. Categories (topical): Card games
    Sense id: en-talon-en-noun-m6P1qVK9 Topics: card-games, games
  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. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Finance
    Sense id: en-talon-en-noun-~4qwoOLx Topics: business, finance
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: taloned Related terms: Coed-talon (english: etymologically unrelated)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "ónux",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "tofer",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
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          "word": "טופר"
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "pañjā",
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          "word": "पंजा"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "karom"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "gríobh"
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          "lang": "Italian",
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          "sense": "hooked claw",
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          "alt": "つめ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tsume",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "爪"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "baltop",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "발톱"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "lep",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "ເລັບ"
        },
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "unguis"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "kandža",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "канџа"
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          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "taloun"
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "áláshgaan"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
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          "word": "klo"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "çenk",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "چنك"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "pençe",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "پنچه"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "čangâl",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "چنگال"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "čang",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "چنگ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "szpon"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "pazur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "garra"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kógotʹ",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ко́готь"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ìne"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ка̑нџа"
        },
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          "sense": "hooked claw",
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          "word": "па̑нџа"
        },
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "kȃndža"
        },
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
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          "word": "pȃndža"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "dráp"
        },
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          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "krempelj"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "garra"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "klo"
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          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "čangol",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "чангол"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "čang",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "чанг"
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "roman": "ukir",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "உகிர்"
        },
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          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "lép",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "เล็บ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "grong-lép",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "กรงเล็บ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "word": "pençe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "kíhotʹ",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "кі́готь"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "70 7 6 6 3 8",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "hooked claw",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "pençe (diq)"
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "پنچه"
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "gd",
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ìne"
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
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      "sense": "hooked claw",
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    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "hooked claw",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pençe (diq)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "talon"
}

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