# fisherman
## English
### Etymology

From fisher +‎ -man.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈfɪʃɚmən/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɪʃəmən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: fish‧er‧man

### Noun

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.
*** 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], 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.
* A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.
** 1938, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, Cromwell's Captains‎, 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, 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

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 (jyu$^4$ fu$^1$), 漁民 / 渔民 (jyu$^4$ man$^4$), 漁人 / 渔人 (jyu$^4$ jan$^4$), 打魚佬 / 打鱼佬 (daa$^2$ jyu$^4$ lou$^2$)
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 ($^7$tsoq $^6$ng-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
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) :