fishing line

English

Etymology

From Middle English *fyshenge lyne (found in plural fyshenge lynes), equivalent to fishing +‎ line.

Noun

fishing line (countable and uncountable, plural fishing lines)

1. A cord or line where the hook or lure is attached.

Derived terms

• mermaid's fishing line

Translations

chord or line where the hook or lure is attached

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կարթաթել (hy) (kartʿatʿel), կարթալար (hy) (kartʿalar)
• Basque: amu-hari
• Belarusian: лёска f (ljóska)
• Catalan: llinya (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釣魚線／钓鱼线 (diàoyúxiàn), 釣線／钓线 (zh) (diàoxiàn), 釣絲／钓丝 (zh) (diàosī), 魚絲／鱼丝 (zh) (yúsī)

• Czech: vlasec (cs) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: õngenöör
• Finnish: siima (fi)
• French: ligne de pêche f
• Galician: sedela f, tanza (gl) f, liña (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Angelschnur (de) f, Angelleine (de) f
• Greek: ορμιά (el) f (ormiá)

  Ancient: θῶμιγξ f (thôminx), μήρινθος f (mḗrinthos)

• Hungarian: horgászzsinór (hu)
• Irish: dorú (iascaireachta) m
• Italian: lenza (it) f
• Japanese: 釣り糸 (ja) (つりいと, tsuriito)
• Khmer: រនង (km) (rɔnɔɔng), ខ្សែសន្ទូច (khsae sɑntuuc)
• Korean: 낚싯줄 (ko) (naksitjul)
• Norman: lîngne dé pêque f (Jersey)
• Old Norse: vaðr m
• Ottoman Turkish: اولته (olta), مسینه (mesine)
• Polish: żyłka (pl) f
• Portuguese: linha (pt) f, linha de pesca f
• Russian: ле́ска (ru) f (léska)
• Scottish Gaelic: driamlach f
• Slovak: vlasec (sk) m
• Slovene: ribiška vrvica f
• Spanish: cuerda de pescar f, hilo de pescar m
• Swedish: fiskelina c, metrev (sv) c
• Thai: สายเบ็ด (sǎai-bèt)
• Turkish: misina (tr)
• Ukrainian: волосі́нь f (volosínʹ), лі́ска f (líska)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• line fishing, linefishing