# talon
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Vulgar Latin *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ælən
* IPA: /ˈtælən/

### Noun

talon (plural talons)
* A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC: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 ?
* (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
* (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.)
* The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
** 1856, George Price, A Treatise on Fire and Thief-proof Depositories, and Locks:The locks were constructed with two or three levers, and sometimes with a common tumbler. The talon is the secret; for after locking the bolt out, the key is turned round again quietly to catch the nib and force the talon up
* (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.
* (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
### See also

* Coed-talon (etymologically unrelated)

### 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
* forest, jungle, woods, remote area, mountains

#### Synonyms

* amogud

## Finnish
### Noun

talon
* genitive/accusative singular of talo

### Anagrams

* alton, lotan, tolan

## French
### Etymology

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”). Cognate with Italian tallone.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.lɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

talon m (plural talons)
* heel (part of the foot)
* backheel
* heel (of footwear) (especially high heel)
* spur (sharp implement used to prod a horse)
* (figuratively) the bottom or lower part of something
* first point in tables games such as ticktack and jacquet

#### Derived terms

* avoir l’estomac dans les talons
* talon aiguille
* talon d’Achille
* talonneur
* tourner les talons

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: talão

### Further reading

* “talon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Maranao
### Noun

talon
* herd
* flock

#### Derived terms

* tatalonen (“rancher”)

## Middle English
### Noun

talon
* Alternative form of taloun

## Norman
### Etymology

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

### Noun

talon m (plural talons)
* (Jersey, anatomy, etc.) heel
** 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 520:T'as acouare les jaunes talons.You have still got yellow heels.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *talonis, from Latin talus.

### Noun

talon oblique singular, m (oblique plural talons, nominative singular talons, nominative plural talon)
* (Anatomy) heel (of the foot)

#### Descendants

* French: talon
* Norman: talon (Jersey)
* → Middle English: taloun
** English: talon

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *talōną.

### Verb

talōn
* to tell, speak, recount
* to count, to reckon

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: talen

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French talon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.lɔn/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alɔn
* Syllabification: ta‧lon

### Noun

talon m inan (related adjective talonowy)
* coupon, voucher (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services)
    Synonyms: bon, kupon, kwit, voucher

#### Derived terms

* talonowicz

### Further reading

* talon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* talon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈlon/ [t̪ɐˈlon̪]
* Rhymes: -on
* Syllabification: ta‧lon

### Etymology 1

Compare Malay terjun (“to dive, to jump from a high place”) and Malay turun (“descend; fall”).

#### Noun

talón (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜓᜈ᜔)
* jump; leap (from a height)
    Synonyms: lundag, paglundag, igpaw, pag-igpaw, lukso, patok, igtad
* waterfall; falls
    Synonym: (Marinduque) busay
* skip; omission (in typing, etc.)
    Synonyms: salto, pagsalto
* sudden jump due to fright
    Synonyms: igtad, pag-igtad, pagkapaigtad
* (gambling) a kind of bet in the game sakla
* (slang) prison escapee
    Synonym: takas

##### Derived terms

* magpatalun-talon
* pagtalon
* pagtatalon
* talunin
* tumalon
* tumalun-talon

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

talón (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎᜓᜈ᜔)
* stub (of a check, receipt, voucher, etc.)

##### Related terms

* talonaryo

### Anagrams

* lonta

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

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

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈtalɔn/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈtaːlɔn/, /ˈtalɔn/

### Verb

talon
* first/third-person plural preterite colloquial of talu

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.