fisher

See also: Fisher

English edit

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophones: fissure, phisher
Rhymes: -ɪʃə(ɹ)

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English fischer, fischare, from Old English fisċere (“fisher”), from Proto-Germanic *fiskārijaz (“fisher”), equivalent to fish +‎ -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fisker (“fisher”), West Frisian fisker (“fisher”), Dutch visser (“fisher”), German Low German Fisker, Fisser (“fisher”), German Fischer (“fisher”), Danish fisker (“fisher”), Swedish fiskare (“fisher”).

Noun edit

fisher (plural fishers)

A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
- 2021 December, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 43, column 1:
  The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.

Usage notes edit

Traditionally less common than fisherman, "fisher" is gaining in use as a more gender-inclusive alternative.

Synonyms edit

(catcher of wild fish): angler, fisherman, fisherperson, piscary, piscator, piscatorialist, piscatorian, piscicapturist
(catcher of captive fish): fish farmer, pisciculturist

Hyponyms edit

(female): anglerette, fisheress (rare), fisherette, fisherwoman, piscatrix
(by means of fishing): noodler, surfcaster, trawler

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

(act): See fishing
(adj): piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorian, piscatorious
(adv): piscatorially
(writing on fishermen): piscatory

Translations edit

person who fishes

Afrikaans: visser
Arabic: صَيَّاد m (ṣayyād) which refers alike to a hunter, poetically عَرَكِيّ m (ʕarakiyy) which is singulative of عَرَك (ʕarak) and عُرُوك (ʕurūk)
Armenian: ձկնորս (hy) (jknors)
Aromanian: piscar
Bashkir: балыҡсы (balıqsı)
Bulgarian: рибар (bg) m (ribar)
Catalan: pescador (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 魚夫／鱼夫 (zh) (yúfū), 漁民／渔民 (zh) (yúmín)
Corsican: piscadore, pescadore, piscatore, pescatore
Crimean Tatar: balıqçı
Czech: rybář m (person)
Dutch: visser (nl) m
Egyptian:

(wḥꜥ)
Esperanto: fiŝisto, fiŝkaptisto
Estonian: kalur, kalamees
Finnish: kalastaja (fi)
French: pêcheur (fr) m (person), pêcheuse (fr) f (person), bateau de pêche (fr) m, bateau-pêcheur m (ship)
Friulian: pescjadôr m, pesčhadôr m
Galician: pescador (gl) m, pescadora f
Georgian: მეთევზე (metevze)
German: Fischer (de) m, Fischerin (de) f
Greek: ψαράς (el) m (psarás)
Ancient: ἁλιεύς m (halieús)
Hungarian: halász (hu)
Istriot: pascadur
Italian: pescatore (it) m
Japanese: 漁師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi), 漁民 (ja) (ぎょみん, gyomin)
Korean: 낚시꾼 (ko) (naksikkun), 어부 (ko) (eobu)
Latin: piscātor m
Lun Bawang: dengen
Malagasy: mpanjono (mg)
Malay: pemancing
Occitan: pescaire (oc), pescador (oc)
Ojibwe: ojiig, ojiigag pl
Old English: fisċere m
Plautdietsch: Fescha m
Polish: rybak (pl) m
Portuguese: pescador (pt) m
Romanian: pescar (ro) m
Romansch: pestgader m, pestgadur
Russian: рыба́к (ru) m (rybák), рыболо́в (ru) m (rybolóv)
Scottish Gaelic: iasgair m
Serbo-Croatian: ribar (sh) m
Shor: палықчы (palıqçı)
Sicilian: piscaturi m
Spanish: pescador (es) m
Swedish: fiskare (sv) c
Turkish: balıkçı (tr)
Volapük: (♂♀) päskaran (vo), (♂) hipäskaran, (♀) jipäskaran
Walloon: pexheu (wa) m
Welsh: pysgotwr (cy) m
Yiddish: פֿישער m (fisher)

Etymology 2 edit

A fisher (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti) tagged, in a cage

From French fichet (“polecat pelt”), probably from Dutch visse (“nasty”); modified by folk etymology to resemble Etymology 1.

Noun edit

fisher (plural fishers)

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Fisher (animal)

Wikipedia

A North American marten (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti), that has thick brown fur.
- 1969, Rutherford George Montgomery, The Living Wilderness‎^[1], page 13:
  In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.
- 1998, Thomas E. Kucera, American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection‎^[2], page 62:
  In the southeastern United States, Krohn et al. (1994) hypothesize that the inverse relationship between captures of fishers and martens by commercial trappers may result from an interaction between competitive displacement of marten by fisher and the avoidance of areas with deep and frequent snowfalls by fishers but not martens.
- 2003, Cynthia J. Zabel, Robert G. Anthony, Mammal Community Dynamics, page 207:
  The term "forest carnivores" denotes a smaller group of four species - the marten, fisher, lynx, and wolverine - and is only marginally descriptive, inasmuch as it excludes many carnivores that live in forests, and includes the wolverine, which can thrive in the complete absence of trees.
The fur of Pekania pennanti.