fisher

See also Fisher

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃə(r)

Etymology 1

fish +‎ -er

Noun

fisher (plural fishers)

1. A person or ship that is engaged in fishing.

Translations

one that fishes

• Arabic: صياد (ar) (Sayyaad) m
• Armenian: ձկնորս (hy) (jknors) 
• Aromanian: piscar (rup)
• Bulgarian: рибар (bg) m (ribar)
• Catalan: pescador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚夫 (cmn), 鱼夫 (cmn) (yúfū)

• Crimean Tatar: balıqçı
• Czech: rybář m (person)
• Dutch: visser m (person), vissersboot f (ship)
• Esperanto: fiŝisto, fiŝkaptisto
• Estonian: kalur (et)
• Finnish: kalastaja (fi)
• French: pêcheur m (person), bateau de pêche m (ship)
• Friulian: pesčhadôr m
• German: Fischer (de) m, Fischerin (de) f

• Hungarian: halász (hu)
• Italian: pescatore (it) m
• Japanese: 漁師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi)
• Latin: piscātor m
• Occitan: pescaire (oc), pescador (oc)
• Ojibwe: ojiig, ojiigag pl
• Polish: rybak (pl) m
• Portuguese: pescador (pt) m
• Romanian: pescar m, pescari m pl
• Romansch: pestgader (rm) m, pestgadur (rm)
• Russian: рыбак (ru) (rybák) m , рыболов (ru) (rybolóv) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: iasgair (gd) m
• Spanish: pescador (es) m
• Swedish: fiskare (sv) c
• Volapük: (male or female) päskaran (vo), (male) hipäskaran (vo), (female) jipäskaran (vo)

Etymology 2

A fisher (Martes tennanti)
tagged, in a cage

From French fichet (“polecat (pelt)”), probably from Dutch visse (“nasty”)

Noun

fisher (plural fishers)

Wikipedia

1. A North American marten that has thick brown fur, Martes pennanti.
2. The fur of this animal.

Synonyms

• (Martes pennanti): pekan, fisher cat, black cat, fisher marten, big marten, black fox

See also

• Fisher (animal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Fisher (animal)
• Martes pennanti on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Martes pennanti
• Martes pennanti on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Martes pennanti

Translations

marten

• Bulgarian: пекан (bg) m (pekan)
• Dutch: vismarter m
• Finnish: pekani (fi), kanadannäätä (fi)
• French: pékan (fr) m
• German: Fischermarder (de) m
• Hungarian: halásznyest (hu)
• Irish: cat crainn Pennant (ga) m

• Latin: martes pennanti
• Ojibwe: ojiig, ojiigag pl
• Polish: kuna wodna f
• Romanian: jder-pescăresc (ro) m
• Russian: пекан (ru) (pekán) m 
• Swedish: fiskmård (sv) c

fur

• Finnish: kanadannäätä (fi)