fisherman

English

Etymology

fisher +‎ -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.

2. 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

Synonyms

• See fisher

Related terms

• See fisher

Translations

person catching fish

• Arabic: صَيَّاد‏‎ m (ṣayyād)
• Armenian: ձկնորս (hy) (jknors)
• Aromanian: piscar
• Asturian: pescador m
• Azeri: balıqçı (az)
• Bashkir: балыҡсы (balïqsï)
• Basque: arrantzale (eu)
• Belarusian: рыба́к m (rybák)
• Bulgarian: риба́р (bg) m (ribár), риболо́вец m (ribolóvec)
• Burmese: တံငါ (my) (tamnga), ရေလုပ်သား (my) (relupsa:), (using nets) ပိုက်သမား (my) (puiksa.ma:)
• Catalan: pescador (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: rybář (cs) m
• Danish: fisker (da) c
• Esperanto: fiŝkaptisto
• Estonian: kalamees
• Faroese: fiskimaður m
• Finnish: kalastaja (fi)
• French: pêcheur (fr) m, pêcheuse (fr) f, (poetic) (obsolete) pêcheresse (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)
• Greenlandic: aalisartoq
• Hungarian: halász (hu)
• Icelandic: sjómaður 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)
• Latin: piscātor m

• Latvian: zvejnieks m
• Macedonian: рибар m (ribar)
• Malay: nelayan
• 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) m
• Romanian: pescar (ro) m
• Romansch: pestgader, pestgadur
• Russian: рыба́к (ru) m (rybák), рыболо́в (ru) m (rybolóv)
• Sardinian: piscadore, piscadori
• Scottish Gaelic: iasgair m
• Serbo-Croatian: ribar (sh) m, рибар m, ribič (sh) m, рибич m
• Sicilian: piscaturi m
• Slovak: rybár (sk) m
• Slovene: ribič (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rybaŕ m, rybakaŕ m

  Upper Sorbian: rybak m, rybar m

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