fisherman

English[edit]

fisher +‎ -man.

fisherman (plural fishermen)

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.
A boat used for commercial 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

person catching fish

Arabic: صَيَّاد‎‎ m (ṣayyād)
Armenian: ձկնորս (hy) (jknors)
Aromanian: piscar
Asturian: pescador m
Azerbaijani: balıqçı (az)
Bashkir: балыҡсы (balïqsï)
Basque: arrantzale (eu)
Belarusian: рыба́к m (rybák)
Bulgarian: риба́р (bg) m (ribár), риболо́вец m (ribolóvec), рибарка f (ribarka)
Burmese: တံငါ (my) (tamnga), ရေလုပ်သား (my) (relupsa:), (using nets) ပိုက်သမား (my) (puiksa.ma:)
Catalan: pescador (ca) m
Cebuano: mangingisda
Chinese:
Mandarin: 漁夫 (zh), 渔夫 (zh) (yúfū), 漁民 (zh), 渔民 (zh) (yúmín), 漁人 (zh), 渔人 (zh) (yúrén)
Cornish: pyskador m
Czech: rybář (cs) m
Danish: fisker (da) c
Dutch: visser (nl) m
Esperanto: fiŝkaptisto
Estonian: kalamees
Faroese: fiskimaður m
Finnish: kalastaja (fi)
French: pêcheur (fr) m, pêcheuse (fr) f
Friulian: pescjadôr m, pesčhadôr m
Galician: pescador (gl) m
Georgian: მეთევზე (metevze), მებადური (mebaduri)
German: Fischer (de) m, Fischerin f, Angler (de) m
Greek: ψαράς (el) m (psarás)
Ancient: ἁλιεύς m (halieús)
Greenlandic: aalisartoq
Hungarian: halász (hu)
Icelandic: sjómaður (is) m
Indonesian: nelayan (id)
Irish: iascaire m
Istriot: pascadur m
Italian: pescatore (it) m
Japanese: 漁師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi)
Javanese: wong belahan
Khmer: អ្នកនេសាទត្រី (neak neesaat trəy)
Korean: 낚시꾼 (ko) (nakksikkun), 어부 (ko) (eobu)