The fisherman exaggerated the size of the fish he had caught.
Source: tatoeba (19375)
Fisherman
//ˈfɪʃ.ə.mən//
Synonyms for "fisherman" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
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3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
derived
15 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Translations
211 translations across 121 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- peshkatar noun (person catching fish)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἁλιεύς noun (person catching fish)
Arabic
2 entries- صَيَّاد noun (person catching fish)
- صَيَّادَة noun (person catching fish)
Armenian
1 entries- ձկնորս noun (person catching fish)
Aromanian
1 entries- piscar noun (person catching fish)
Assamese
2 entries- মাছমৰীয়া noun (person catching fish)
- মাছুৱৈ noun (person catching fish)
Asturian
1 entries- pescador noun (person catching fish)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- balıqçı noun (person catching fish)
Bashkir
1 entries- балыҡсы noun (person catching fish)
Basque
1 entries- arrantzale noun (person catching fish)
Belarusian
2 entries- рыба́к noun (person catching fish)
- рыбало́ў noun (person catching fish)
Bengali
2 entries- জেলে noun (person catching fish)
- ধীবর noun (person catching fish)
Bikol Central
2 entries- parasira noun (person catching fish)
- parasira noun (vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing)
Bulgarian
3 entries- риба́р noun (person catching fish)
- риба́рка noun (person catching fish)
- риболо́вец noun (person catching fish)
Burmese
4 entries- တံငါ noun (person catching fish)
- ပိုက်သမား noun (person catching fish)
- ရေလုပ်သား noun (person catching fish)
- ရေသူ noun (person catching fish)
Catalan
2 entries- pescador noun (person catching fish)
- pescadora noun (person catching fish)
Cebuano
1 entries- mangingisda noun (person catching fish)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ماسیگر noun (person catching fish)
Chechen
1 entries- чӏерийлецархо noun (person catching fish)
Chinese
3 entries- дайүди noun (person catching fish)
- дёйүжын noun (person catching fish)
- 討海仔 /讨海仔 noun (person catching fish)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 打魚佬 /打鱼佬 noun (person catching fish)
- 漁人 /渔人 noun (person catching fish)
- 漁夫 /渔夫 noun (person catching fish)
- 漁民 /渔民 noun (person catching fish)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 漁人 /渔人 noun (person catching fish)
- 漁夫 /渔夫 noun (person catching fish)
- 漁民 /渔民 noun (person catching fish)
Chuvash
1 entries- пулӑҫӑ noun (person catching fish)
Cornish
1 entries- pyskador noun (person catching fish)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- balıqçı noun (person catching fish)
Czech
2 entries- rybář noun (person catching fish)
- rybářka noun (person catching fish)
Danish
2 entries- fisker noun (person catching fish)
- fiskerinde noun (person catching fish)
Dutch
3 entries- visser noun (person catching fish)
- vissersboot noun (vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing)
- vissersschip noun (vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing)
Egyptian
1 entries- wHa:a-V1-in noun (person catching fish)
Esperanto
2 entries- fiŝkaptistino noun (person catching fish)
- fiŝkaptisto noun (person catching fish)
Estonian
2 entries- kalamees noun (person catching fish)
- kalur noun (person catching fish)
Faroese
1 entries- fiskimaður noun (person catching fish)
Finnish
1 entries- kalastaja noun (person catching fish)
French
2 entries- pêcheur noun (person catching fish)
- pêcheuse noun (person catching fish)
Friulian
2 entries- pescjadôr noun (person catching fish)
- pesčhadôr noun (person catching fish)
Galician
2 entries- mariñeiro noun (person catching fish)
- pescador noun (person catching fish)
Georgian
2 entries- მებადური noun (person catching fish)
- მეთევზე noun (person catching fish)
German
4 entries- Angler noun (person catching fish)
- Anglerin noun (person catching fish)
- Fischer noun (person catching fish)
- Fischereiboot noun (vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌽𐌿𐍄𐌰 noun (person catching fish)
- 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 noun (person catching fish)
Greek
2 entries- ψαράς noun (person catching fish)
- ψαρού noun (person catching fish)
Greenlandic
1 entries- aalisartoq noun (person catching fish)
Gujarati
1 entries- માછીમાર noun (person catching fish)
Hebrew
2 entries- דַּיָּג noun (person catching fish)
- דייג noun (person catching fish)
Hindi
3 entries- धीवर noun (person catching fish)
- मछुआ noun (person catching fish)
- माहीगीर noun (person catching fish)
Hungarian
1 entries- halász noun (person catching fish)
Icelandic
2 entries- fiskimaður noun (person catching fish)
- sjómaður noun (person catching fish)
Indonesian
1 entries- nelayan noun (person catching fish)
Ingrian
3 entries- kalamees noun (person catching fish)
- kalastaja noun (person catching fish)
- rьbakka noun (person catching fish)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- ماهیگیر noun (person catching fish)
Irish
1 entries- iascaire noun (person catching fish)
Istriot
1 entries- pascadur noun (person catching fish)
Italian
2 entries- pescatore noun (person catching fish)
- pescatrice noun (person catching fish)
Japanese
2 entries- 漁夫 noun (person catching fish)
- 漁師 noun (person catching fish)
Javanese
1 entries- wong belahan noun (person catching fish)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- piskador noun (person catching fish)
Kalmyk
1 entries- заһсч noun (person catching fish)
Kannada
1 entries- ಮೀನುಗಾರ noun (person catching fish)
Kashubian
1 entries- rëbôk noun (person catching fish)
Kazakh
1 entries- балықшы noun (person catching fish)
Khmer
4 entries- ព្រាន noun (person catching fish)
- មច្ឆព័ន្ធ noun (person catching fish)
- វាគុរិក noun (person catching fish)
- អ្នកនេសាទ noun (person catching fish)
Korean
2 entries- 낚시꾼 noun (person catching fish)
- 어부 noun (person catching fish)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- балыкчы noun (person catching fish)
Ladino
2 entries- peshkador noun (person catching fish)
- peshkadora noun (person catching fish)
Lao
1 entries- ຊາວປະມົງ noun (person catching fish)
Latin
2 entries- piscātor noun (person catching fish)
- piscātrīx noun (person catching fish)
Latvian
2 entries- zvejniece noun (person catching fish)
- zvejnieks noun (person catching fish)
Lithuanian
2 entries- žvejys noun (person catching fish)
- žvejė noun (person catching fish)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- rybakaŕ noun (person catching fish)
- rybaŕ noun (person catching fish)
Macedonian
1 entries- рибар noun (person catching fish)
Malagasy
1 entries- mpanjono noun (person catching fish)
Malay
2 entries- jala noun (person catching fish)
- nelayan noun (person catching fish)
Malayalam
2 entries- മീൻപിടുത്തക്കാരൻ noun (person catching fish)
- മുക്കുവൻ noun (person catching fish)
Maltese
1 entries- sajjied noun (person catching fish)
Marathi
1 entries- मच्छीमार noun (person catching fish)
Mongolian
1 entries- загасчин noun (person catching fish)
Māori
2 entries- kaihao noun (person catching fish)
- kaihī noun (person catching fish)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- masîgir noun (person catching fish)
- masîvan noun (person catching fish)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fisker noun (person catching fish)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fiskar noun (person catching fish)
Occitan
3 entries- pescadoira noun (person catching fish)
- pescador noun (person catching fish)
- pescaire noun (person catching fish)
Old English
1 entries- fisċere noun (person catching fish)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بالقجی noun (person catching fish)
Pashto
2 entries- ماهي ګير noun (person catching fish)
- مچي مار noun (person catching fish)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Fescha noun (person catching fish)
- Fescher noun (person catching fish)
Polish
1 entries- rybak noun (person catching fish)
Portuguese
2 entries- pescador noun (person catching fish)
- pescadora noun (person catching fish)
Punjabi
3 entries- مَچھیرا noun (person catching fish)
- ਮਛੂਆ noun (person catching fish)
- ਮਛੇਰਾ noun (person catching fish)
Romanian
2 entries- pescar noun (person catching fish)
- pescăreasă noun (person catching fish)
Romansch
2 entries- pestgader noun (person catching fish)
- pestgadur noun (person catching fish)
Russian
3 entries- рыба́к noun (person catching fish)
- рыба́чка noun (person catching fish)
- рыболо́в noun (person catching fish)
Sanskrit
2 entries- जालिक noun (person catching fish)
- धीवर noun (person catching fish)
Sardinian
2 entries- piscadore noun (person catching fish)
- piscadori noun (person catching fish)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- iasgair noun (person catching fish)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- rìbīč noun (person catching fish)
- rȉbār noun (person catching fish)
- ри̏ба̄р noun (person catching fish)
- рѝбӣч noun (person catching fish)
Sicilian
1 entries- piscaturi noun (person catching fish)
Slovak
2 entries- rybár noun (person catching fish)
- rybárka noun (person catching fish)
Slovene
2 entries- ribič noun (person catching fish)
- ribička noun (person catching fish)
Southern Ohlone
1 entries- huynismak noun (person catching fish)
Spanish
3 entries- pescador noun (person catching fish)
- pescadora noun (person catching fish)
- pishiñero noun (person catching fish)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- fisiman noun (person catching fish)
Swahili
1 entries- mvuvi noun (person catching fish)
Swedish
3 entries- fiskare noun (person catching fish)
- fiskarinna noun (person catching fish)
- fiskerska noun (person catching fish)
Tagalog
1 entries- mangingisda noun (person catching fish)
Tajik
2 entries- моҳигир noun (person catching fish)
- моҳидор noun (person catching fish)
Tamil
1 entries- மீனவர் noun (person catching fish)
Tatar
1 entries- балыкчы noun (person catching fish)
Telugu
1 entries- జాలరి noun (person catching fish)
Thai
2 entries- ชาวประมง noun (person catching fish)
- นักตกปลา noun (person catching fish)
Turkish
1 entries- balıkçı noun (person catching fish)
Turkmen
1 entries- balykçy noun (person catching fish)
Ukrainian
4 entries- риба́к noun (person catching fish)
- риба́лка noun (person catching fish)
- риба́чка noun (person catching fish)
- риболо́в noun (person catching fish)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- rybak noun (person catching fish)
- rybar noun (person catching fish)
Urdu
2 entries- ماہی گِیر noun (person catching fish)
- مَچھیرا noun (person catching fish)
Uyghur
1 entries- بېلىقچى noun (person catching fish)
Uzbek
1 entries- baliqchi noun (person catching fish)
Vietnamese
3 entries- dân chài noun (person catching fish)
- ngư dân noun (person catching fish)
- ngư phủ noun (person catching fish)
Volapük
3 entries- hipäskaran noun (person catching fish)
- jipäskaran noun (person catching fish)
- päskaran noun (person catching fish)
Welsh
1 entries- pysgotwr noun (person catching fish)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 捉魚個 /捉鱼个 noun (person catching fish)
Yakut
1 entries- балыксыт noun (person catching fish)
Yiddish
3 entries- פֿישער noun (person catching fish)
- פֿישערין noun (person catching fish)
- פֿישערקע noun (person catching fish)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The fisherman cast his line into the water.
Source: tatoeba (19376)
The fisherman saved himself by means of a floating board.
Source: tatoeba (48715)
The fisherman cast the fishing line into the water.
Source: tatoeba (278437)
Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.
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