English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] fisher -man
fisherman (plural fishermen
A fisher , a person engaged in fishing :
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.
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] 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] 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 [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
person catching fish
Arabic: صَيَّاد m ( ṣayyād )
Armenian: ձկնորս (hy) ( jknors )
Aromanian: piscar
Assamese: মাছমৰীয়া ( masmoria ) , মাছুৱৈ ( masuoi )
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 rybářka (cs) f
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 Anglerin (de) f
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
Kabuverdianu: piskador
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)
Old English: fisċere m
Persian: ماهیگیر (fa) ( mâhigir )
Plautdietsch: Fescha m
Polish: rybak (pl) m
Portuguese: pescador (pt) m pescadora (pt) f
Romanian: pescar (ro) m pescăreasă (ro) f
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 pescadora (es) f
Swahili: mvuvi (sw)
Swedish: fiskare (sv) c
Tagalog: mangingisda (tl)
Tatar: балыкчы (tt) ( balıqçı )
Telugu: జాలరి (te) ( jālari )
Thai: ชาวประมง นักตกปลา ( nák-dtòk-bplaa )
Turkish: balıkçı (tr)
Turkmen: balykçy
Ukrainian: риба́лка m ( rybálka ) , риба́к m ( rybák ) , рибачка f ( rybačka )
Vietnamese: ngư dân (vi)
Volapük: ( ♂♀ ) päskaran (vo) , ( ♂ ) hipäskaran ( ♀ ) jipäskaran
Welsh: pysgotwr (cy) m
Yiddish: פֿישער m ( fisher )
