in spanish, what does the word azor mean?

Question

In the poem of Ruben Dario, he wrote that the prince is riding to the princess side: ..."En el cinto, la espada y en la mano, el azor..." What is azor?

Answer 1

It means a bird, the goshawk.
http://www.sephardim.com/html/translated_names.html
http://ets.freetranslation.com/

Answer 2

Whoa, that was a pretty tough one. I could not find "azor" in my usually trusty wordreference.com--the website I use to translate certain words I don't know in Spanish for my English-Spanish copyediting job.

I actually had to look in a "hard" dictionary, my American Heritage Spanish-English Dictionary, but that didn't help either. There was no citation for azor.

Finally, I went to my newest dictionary that I bought as backup, Webster's New World Concise Spanish Dictionary (which is Spanish-to-English and vice versa), and I found this:

azor = nm goshawk

So now I'm like, what's a goshawk? Sounds like a Medieval word, if you ask me--like some old riding tool or...I thought it could even be the sheath for the sword. I'd never heard it before.

So now I go back to the Internet to look up "goshawk" in my other trusty site, www.m-w.com (Merriam-Webster's English dictionary), and--voilà! I got this:

goshawk

One entry found for goshawk.
Main Entry: gos·hawk
Pronunciation: 'gäs-"hok
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English goshawke, from Old English gOshafoc, from gOs goose + hafoc hawk
: any of several long-tailed hawks with short rounded wings; especially : a large accipiter (Accipiter gentilis) of the northern hemisphere that is grayish-blue above with a barred white-and-gray underside and has a white stripe above and behind the eye[.]

So, it turns out the prince was carrying a bird of prey--a goshawk--on his hand--with a glove, I hope--to go hunting birds with (and obstensibly to show off for the princess).

That was a doozy! It's not a very common word, I guess, in Spanish for it not to be in contemporary online dictionaries. Even in English I imagine the word isn't too common. (I never would have guessed he was talking about a bird, especially with the strange mix of the words "goose" and "hawk"--even with the "hawk" ending.) I almost wanted to search for goshawk again when it came back that it was a bird, because I was bent on thinking that goshawk was an item the prince was wearing on his person, like something to accompany the sword, or something to ride with, like a whip or something.

Phew! I gotta pat myself on the back for this one! `(''.)

Answer 3

it's either a hawk or a sword if i had to guess i would say a hawk based on the fact that there is a spanish aircraft named Azor

CASA 207 AZOR
The CASA 207 Azor was a Spanish short/medium-range utility medium transport aircraft developed as a larger version of the previous CASA-202 Halcon, and first flown in prototype in 1955 intended for the civil airliner market.

Answer 4

I'm not sure what he's talking about, probably would have to read more about it, but according to the Royal Academy for The Spanish Language thes are the definitions:

azor1.
(Del lat. *acceptor, -ōris, por accipĭter, -tris).
1. m. Ave rapaz diurna, como de medio metro de largo, por encima de color ***** y por el vientre blanca con manchas negras. Tiene alas y pico ******, cola cenicienta, manchada de blanco, y tarsos amarillos.

~ desbañado.
1. m. Cineg. El que no ha tomado el agua los días que le hacen volar.

azor2.
(Del ár. hisp. ***úr, y este del ár. clás. sūr).
1. m. ant. muro (ǁ pared).

Answer 5

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/goshawk. It means gashawk. He was a Nicaraguan poet by the way.

Answer 6

in his sheath a sword and in his hand a hawk

Answer 7

he talking about spanish rice,yum!

Answer 8

I don't know? I could not remeber it!!!

Answer 9

dont know

Answer 10

i have no idea