goshawk

English

Etymology

From Middle English goshauk, from Old English gōshafoc (“goose hawk”), from gōs (“goose”) and hafoc (“hawk”). Compare also Old Norse gáshaukr and Late Middle English gosling. The bird gets its name from the fact that the birds of the species are hawks that were alleged to prey on geese.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒshɔːk/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑshɑk/
• Rhymes: -ɒshɔːk, -ɑshɑk
• Hyphenation: gos‧hawk

Noun

goshawk (plural goshawks)

1. Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Abbot. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 43:

     But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.

Derived terms

• African goshawk (Accipiter tachiro)
• black goshawk (Accipiter melanoleucus)
• black-mantled goshawk (Accipiter melanochlamys)
• brown goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus)
• chanting goshawk
• chestnut-shouldered goshawk (Erythrotriorchis buergersi)
• Chinese goshawk (Accipiter soloensis)
• crested goshawk (Accipiter trivirgatus)
• dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates)
• Doria's goshawk
• eastern chanting goshawk (Melierax poliopterus)
• Fiji goshawk
• Frances' goshawk
• Gabar goshawk
• grey-bellied goshawk (Accipiter poliogaster)
• grey goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae)
• grey-headed goshawk (Tachyspiza poliocephala)
• Henst's goshawk
• Meyer's goshawk
• Moluccan goshawk
• New Britain goshawk
• northern goshawk (Astur gentilis)
• pale chanting goshawk (Melierax canorus)
• pied goshawk (Accipiter albogularis)
• red-chested goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii)
• red goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)
• spot-tailed goshawk (Accipiter trinotatus)
• Sulawesi goshawk
• white-bellied goshawk (Accipiter haplochrous)
• white goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae)

Translations

bird of prey principally in the genus Accipiter

Albanian: petrit (sq) m, gjeraqinë (sq) f, sokol (sq) m Arabic: please add this translation if you can Asturian: ferre (ast) m, taforru (ast) m Azerbaijani: tetraçalan Belarusian: цецяру́к m (cjecjarúk) Breton: gwazsparfell Bulgarian: я́стреб кокошкар m (jástreb kokoškar) Catalan: astor (ca) m Chechen: куьйра (küüra) Chinese: Mandarin: 蒼鷹 / 苍鹰 (zh) (cāngyīng) Czech: jestřáb (cs) Danish: duehøg (da) Dutch: havik (nl) m Esperanto: akcipitro Estonian: kanakull (et) Faroese: høsnaheykur Finnish: kanahaukka (fi) French: autour (fr) m Friulian: cagnŕs Galician: azor (gl) m German: Habicht (de) m Greek: διπλοσάινο (el) (diplosáino) Hungarian: héja (hu) Icelandic: gáshaukur Indonesian: elang-alap Irish: spioróg mhór f Italian: astore (it) m Japanese: オオタカ (ja) (ōtaka) Kumyk: къарчыгъа (qarçığa) Ladin: sparvel gran Latin: Accipiter gentilis Latvian: vistu vanags Lithuanian: vištvanagis (lt) Macedonian: јастреб кокошкар (jastreb kokoškar) Maltese: sparvier tal-ħamiem Manx: shawk ny sperriu m Navajo: giníłbáhí Norwegian: hønsehauk Occitan: astor (oc) Old Portuguese: açor Polish: jastrząb (pl) m Portuguese: açor (pt) m Romani: hulyo m, hulyaika f Romanian: uliu (ro) m Romansch: sprer, sprer gond, sprer da giaglinas Russian: тетеревя́тник (ru) m (teterevjátnik), я́стреб-тетеревя́тник (ru) m (jástreb-teterevjátnik), большо́й я́стреб m (bolʹšój jástreb) Sami: goahppilfálli Sardinian: stori columbinu, istore lepperajolu Scottish Gaelic: glas-sheabhag f, seabhag-riabhach f, seabhag-mhór f, gos-sheabhag f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: jастреб кокошар Roman: jastreb kokošar (sh) Slovak: jastrab lesný (sk) Slovene: kragulj Spanish: azor (es) m Swedish: duvhök (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: çakır (tr) Ukrainian: я́струб вели́кий m (jástrub velýkyj), тетерев’я́тник m (teterevʺjátnyk) Upper Sorbian: jatřob Volapük: gokahauk Welsh: gwalch marth m West Frisian: hauk Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• goshawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Accipitridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies