fisherman

English

Etymology

fisher +‎ -man.

Noun

fisherman (plural fishermen)

1. A person who attempts to catch fish.

   The fisherman cast his line.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/19/2, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2. A person whose profession is catching fish.

   He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.

3. A boat used for commercial fishing.

Synonyms

• (person who attempts to catch fish): angler, fisher
• (person whose profession is catching fish): fisher

Related terms

• fish
• fishing

Translations

person catching fish

• Arabic: صياد m (ṣayyād)
• Armenian: ձկնորս (jknors)
• Aromanian: piscar
• Azeri: balıqçı (az)
• Bashkir: балыҡсы (balïqsï)
• Basque: arrantzale (eu)
• Belarusian: рыбак m (rybák)
• Bulgarian: рибар (bg) m (ribár), риболовец m (ribolóvec)
• Burmese: တံငါ (tam nga), ရေလုပ်သား (re lup sa:), (using nets) ပိုက်သမား (puik sa. ma:)
• Catalan: pescador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚夫 (zh), 鱼夫 (yúfū)

• Czech: rybář (cs) m
• Esperanto: fiŝkaptisto
• Estonian: kalamees
• Finnish: kalastaja (fi)
• French: pêcheur (fr) m, pêcheuse (fr) f, (poetic) (obsolete) pêcheresse (fr) f
• Friulian: pesčhadôr m
• Georgian: მეთევზე (met’evze), მებადური (mebaduri)
• German: Fischer (de) m, Fischerin f
• Greek: ψαράς (el) m (psarás)
• Hungarian: halász (hu)
• Indonesian: nelayan (id)
• Irish: iascaire m
• Italian: pescatore (it) m
• Japanese: 漁師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi)
• Khmer: អ្នកនេសាទត្រី (neak neesaat trəy)
• Korean: 낚시꾼 (ko) (nakksikkun)
• Latin: piscātor m
• Latvian: zvejnieks m
• Macedonian: рибар m (ríbar)

• Maori: kaihao (using a net), kaihī (using a hook and line)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: fisker (no) m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: fiskar (nn) m

• Occitan: pescaire (oc), pescador (oc)
• Persian: ماهیگیر (fa) (mâhigir)
• Polish: rybak (pl) m
• Portuguese: pescador (pt)
• Romanian: pescar (ro) m
• Romansch: pestgader, pestgadur
• Russian: рыбак (ru) m (rybák), рыболов (ru) m (rybolóv)
• Sardinian: piscadore, piscadori
• Scottish Gaelic: iasgair m
• Serbo-Croatian: ribar m, рибар m, ribič m, рибич m
• Slovak: rybár m
• Slovene: ribič (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rybaŕ m, rybakaŕ m

• Spanish: pescador (es) m
• Swahili: mvuvi (sw)
• Swedish: fiskare (sv) c
• Tagalog: mangingisda
• Tatar: балыкчы (tt) (balıqçı)
• Telugu: జాలరి (te) (jalari)
• Thai: ชาวประมง (chaao bpràmong), ชาวสวน (chaao sŭan)
• Turkish: balıkçı (tr)
• Turkmen: balykçy
• Ukrainian: рибалка m (rybálka), рибак m (rybák)
• Vietnamese: ngư dân (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) päskaran (vo), (♂) hipäskaran, (♀) jipäskaran
• Welsh: pysgotwr m
• Yiddish: פֿישער m (fisher)