fisherman

English

A fisherman on a canal bank

Etymology

From fisher +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɚmən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃəmən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: fish‧er‧man

Noun

fisherman (plural fishermen)

1. A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
   1. Any person who attempts to catch fish.

      The fisherman cast his line.

      • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “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.

      • 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38:

        I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.

      • 1989, “John the Fisherman”, performed by Primus:

        Alienated from the clique society, / A lonely boy finds peace in fishing. / His mother says John this is not the way life's supposed to be. / Don't you see the life that you are missing? / And he says / When I grow up I want to be, / One of the harvesters of the sea. / I think before my days are done, / I want to be a fisherman.

2. A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.
   • 1938, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, Cromwell's Captains‎^[1], page 196:

     They tortured and put to death English factors in the Spice Islands; they descended upon the fisheries of the North Sea in huge fleets escorted by men-of-war that attacked and sank the fishermen of other nations

   • 1987, John Rousmaniere, Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee, Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts‎^[2], page 26:

     Such boats should not have been fast, but the better fishermen — particularly John Alden's designs - […] won a big share of the offshore and coastwise races

Synonyms

• See fisher

Derived terms

• catfisherman
• codfisherman
• fisherman bat (Noctilio leporinus)
• fisherman buster
• fishermanship
• fisherman's loop
• flyfisherman
• nonfisherman
• phisherman
• ring of the fisherman
• shellfisherman
• spearfisherman
• sportfisherman

Related terms

• fisherwoman (fisher (female), fisherman (generic sense) (female))
• See fisher

Translations

person catching fish

• Albanian: peshkatar (sq) m
• Arabic: صَيَّاد m (ṣayyād), صَيَّادَة f (ṣayyāda)
• Armenian: ձկնորս (hy) (jknors)
• Aromanian: piscar
• Assamese: মাছমৰীয়া (masomoria), মাছুৱৈ (masuoi)
• Asturian: pescador (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: balıqçı (az)
• Bashkir: балыҡсы (balıqsı)
• Basque: arrantzale (eu)
• Belarusian: рыба́к m (rybák), рыбало́ў m (rybalóŭ)
• Bengali: জেলে (bn) (jele), ধীবর (bn) (dhibor)
• Bikol Central: parasira (bcl)
• Bulgarian: риба́р (bg) m (ribár), риба́рка f (ribárka), риболо́вец m (ribolóvec)
• Burmese: တံငါ (my) (tamnga), ရေလုပ်သား (my) (relupsa:), ပိုက်သမား (my) (puiksa.ma:) (using nets) , ရေသူ (my) (resu) (archaic)
• Catalan: pescador (ca) m, pescadora (ca) f
• Cebuano: mangingisda
• Chechen: чӏерийлецархо (čʼeriı̇lecarxo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漁夫 / 渔夫 (jyu⁴ fu¹), 漁民 / 渔民 (jyu⁴ man⁴), 漁人 / 渔人 (jyu⁴ jan⁴), 打魚佬 / 打鱼佬 (daa² jyu⁴ lou²)

  Dungan: дайүди (dayüdi), дёйүжын (di͡oyüřɨn)

  Hokkien: 討海仔 / 讨海仔 (thó-hái-á)

  Mandarin: 漁夫 / 渔夫 (zh) (yúfū), 漁民 / 渔民 (zh) (yúmín), 漁人 / 渔人 (zh) (yúrén)

  Wu: 捉魚個 / 捉鱼个 (⁷tsoq ⁶ng-geq)

• Chuvash: пулӑҫӑ (pulăś̬ă)
• Cornish: pyskador m
• Crimean Tatar: balıqçı
• Czech: rybář (cs) m, rybářka (cs) f
• Danish: fisker (da) c, fiskerinde c
• Dutch: visser (nl) m
• Egyptian: (wḥꜥ)
• Esperanto: fiŝkaptisto, fiŝkaptistino (female)
• Estonian: kalamees, kalur
• Faroese: fiskimaður m
• Finnish: kalastaja (fi)
• French: pêcheur (fr) m, pêcheuse (fr) f
• Friulian: pescjadôr m, pesčhadôr m
• Galician: pescador (gl) m, mariñeiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მეთევზე (metevze), მებადური (mebaduri)
• German: Fischer (de) m, Fischerin (de) f, Angler (de) m, Anglerin (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 m (fiskja), 𐌽𐌿𐍄𐌰 m (nuta)
• Greek: ψαράς (el) m (psarás), ψαρού (el) f (psaroú)

  Ancient: ἁλιεύς m (halieús)

• Greenlandic: aalisartoq
• Gujarati: માછીમાર (māchīmār)
• Hebrew: דייג / דַּיָּג (he) m (dayág)
• Hindi: माहीगीर (hi) m (māhīgīr), मछुआ (hi) m (machuā), धीवर (hi) m (dhīvar)
• Hungarian: halász (hu)
• Icelandic: sjómaður (is) m, fiskimaður m
• Indonesian: nelayan (id)
• Ingrian: kalastaja, rьbakka, kalamees
• Irish: iascaire m
• Istriot: pascadur m
• Italian: pescatore (it) m, pescatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 漁師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi), 漁夫 (ja) (ぎょふ, gyofu)
• Javanese: wong belahan
• Kabuverdianu: piskador
• Kalmyk: заһсч (zağsç)
• Kannada: ಮೀನುಗಾರ (kn) (mīnugāra)
• Kashubian: rëbôk m
• Kazakh: балықшы (balyqşy)
• Khmer: អ្នកនេសាទ (nĕək neesaat), មច្ឆព័ន្ធ (km) (macchaʼpŏən), វាគុរិក (km) (viəkurɨk), ព្រាន (km) (priən) (hunter or fisherman)
• Korean: 낚시꾼 (ko) (naksikkun), 어부(漁夫) (ko) (eobu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ماسیگر (masîgir)

  Northern Kurdish: masîgir (ku) m or f, masîvan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: балыкчы (ky) (balıkcı)
• Ladino: peshkador m, peshkadora f
• Lao: ຊາວປະມົງ (sāo pa mong)
• Latin: piscātor m, piscātrīx f
• Latvian: zvejnieks m, zvejniece f
• Lithuanian: žvejys m, žvejė f
• Macedonian: рибар m (ribar)
• Malagasy: mpanjono (mg)
• Malay: nelayan, jala
• Malayalam: മീൻപിടുത്തക്കാരൻ m (mīṉpiṭuttakkāraṉ), മുക്കുവൻ (ml) m (mukkuvaṉ)
• Maltese: sajjied m
• Maori: kaihao (using a net), kaihī (using a hook and line)
• Marathi: मच्छीमार m or f (macchīmār)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: загасчин (mn) (zagasčin)

• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: fisker (no) m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: fiskar (nn) m

• Occitan: pescaire (oc), pescador (oc), pescadoira (oc) f
• Old English: fisċere m
• Ottoman Turkish: بالقجی (balıkcı)
• Pashto: ماهي ګير m (māhi gir), مچي مار m (moči mār)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ماهی‌گیر (fa) (mâhi-gir)

• Plautdietsch: Fescha m, Fescher m
• Polish: rybak (pl) m
• Portuguese: pescador (pt) m, pescadora (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਮਛੇਰਾ (macherā), ਮਛੂਆ (machūā)

  Shahmukhi: مَچھیرا (macherā)

• Romanian: pescar (ro) m, pescăreasă (ro) f
• Romansch: pestgader, pestgadur
• Russian: рыба́к (ru) m (rybák), рыба́чка (ru) f (rybáčka), рыболо́в (ru) m (rybolóv)
• Sanskrit: धीवर (sa) m (dhīvara), जालिक (sa) m (jālika)
• Sardinian: piscadore, piscadori
• Scottish Gaelic: iasgair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ри̏ба̄р m, рѝбӣч m

  Roman: rȉbār (sh) m, rìbīč (sh) m

• Sicilian: piscaturi m
• Slovak: rybár (sk) m, rybárka f
• Slovene: ribič (sl) m, ribička f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rybaŕ m, rybakaŕ m

  Upper Sorbian: rybak m, rybar m

• Southern Ohlone: huynismak
• Spanish: pescador (es) m, pescadora (es) f, pishiñero m (artisanal, exotic fish for aquariums, Peru)
• Sranan Tongo: fisiman
• Swahili: mvuvi (sw)
• Swedish: fiskare (sv) c, fiskarinna c, fiskerska c
• Tagalog: mangingisda (tl)
• Tajik: моҳигир (mohigir), моҳидор (mohidor)
• Tamil: மீனவர் (mīṉavar)
• Tatar: балыкчы (tt) (balıqçı)
• Telugu: జాలరి (te) (jālari)
• Thai: ชาวประมง (th), นักตกปลา (nák-dtòk-bplaa)
• Turkish: balıkçı (tr)
• Turkmen: balykçy
• Ukrainian: риба́лка m (rybálka), риба́к m (rybák), риба́чка f (rybáčka), риболо́в m (rybolóv)
• Urdu: ماہی گِیر m (māhī gīr), مَچھیرا m (macherā)
• Uyghur: بېلىقچى (ug) (bëliqchi)
• Uzbek: baliqchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngư dân (vi), dân chài, ngư phủ (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) päskaran (vo), (♂) hipäskaran, (♀) jipäskaran
• Welsh: pysgotwr (cy) m
• Yakut: балыксыт (balıksıt)
• Yiddish: פֿישער m (fisher), פֿישערין f (fisherin), פֿישערקע f (fisherke)

vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing

• Bikol Central: parasira (bcl)
• Dutch: vissersboot (nl) m or f, vissersschip (nl) n
• German: Fischereiboot (de) n