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English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
Homophone: phishing

Etymology 1

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish +‎ -ing.

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fishing

Noun

fishing (countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

Stilt fishermen in Sri Lanka.

(uncountable) The act of catching fish.
We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
- 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.
(uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
(uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
This is good news for the fishing industry.
(countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
  the rent of the fishings
- 1917, The Scots Law Times, volume 2, page 190:
  Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.

Synonyms

(act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
(business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
(sport): sportfishing
(place): See fishery

Derived terms

Translations

act or sport of catching fish

Albanian: peshkim (sq) m
Arabic: صَيْد سَمَك m (ṣayd samak)
Armenian: ձկնորսություն (hy) (jknorsutʻyun)
Assamese: মাছ ধৰা (mas dhora), মাছ মাৰা (mas mara)
Azerbaijani: balıqçılıq (az)
Basque: arrantza
Belarusian: рыба́лка f (rybálka)
Bulgarian: риболо́в (bg) m (ribolóv)
Burmese: ငါးဖမ်း (nga:hpam:)
Catalan: pesca (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 釣魚／钓鱼 (zh) (diàoyú)
Chukchi: ынныӈыттын (ynnyṇyttyn)
Classical Nahuatl: michmaliztli, michahxiliztli, tlahtlamaliztli
Czech: rybolov m
Danish: fiskeri (da) n, lystfiskeri (da) n
Dutch: vissen (nl) n, sportvisserij (nl) f, hengelsport (nl)
Esperanto: fiŝkapti
Estonian: kalapüük, kalastamine
Finnish: kalastus (fi), kalastusurheilu, urheilukalastus
French: pêche (fr) f
Friulian: pescje f
Galician: pesca (gl) f
Georgian: თევზაობა (tevzaoba)
German: Fischen (de) n
Greek: αλιεία (el) f (alieía)
Hebrew: דַיִג (he)
Hindi: मत्स्य पालन m (matsya pālan)
Hungarian: halászat (hu) sg
Indonesian: memancing (id)
Ingrian: kalanpyytö
Irish: iascaireacht f
Italian: pesca (it) f
Japanese: 釣り (ja) (tsuri)
Kapampangan: mamaduas
Khmer: ការស្ទូចត្រី (kaa stuuc trəy), ការនេសាទត្រី (kaa neisaat trəy)
Korean: 낚시 (ko) (naksi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: masîgirî (ku) f
Lao: ການຫາປາ (lo) (kān hā pā)
Latvian: zveja f
Lithuanian: žūklė f, žvejyba f
Macedonian: риба́рство n (ribárstvo), ри́болов m (ríbolov)
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Malayalam: മീൻപിടിത്തം (mīṉpiṭittaṁ)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: fisking m or f
Bokmål: fiske (no) n

Nynorsk: fiske n
Old English: fiscoþ m
Persian: ماهیگیری (fa) (mâhigiri)
Polish: wędkarstwo (pl) n
Portuguese: pescaria (pt) f, pesca (pt)
Romanian: pescuire (ro)
Russian: рыба́лка (ru) f (rybálka), ры́бная ло́вля f (rýbnaja lóvlja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ри̏боло̄в m, риба́рство n

Roman: rȉbolōv (sh) m, ribárstvo (sh) n
Slovak: rybolov (sk) m
Slovene: ribolov m
Spanish: pesca (es) f
Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: fiske (sv) n, fiskande (sv) n
Tajik: моҳигирӣ (tg) (mohigiri)
Tatar: балык тоту (balıq totu)
Thai: ประมง (th) (bprà-mong)
Turkish: balıkçılık (tr), balık tutma
Ukrainian: риба́лка f (rybálka), риболо́вля f (rybolóvlja), риба́льство n (rybálʹstvo)
Vietnamese: câu cá (vi)
White Hmong: hnuv ntses
Yonaguni: 魚っぱし (iyuppashi)

business of catching fish

Afrikaans: visvang sg
Armenian: ձկնորսություն (hy) (jknorsutʻyun)
Catalan: pesca (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 漁業／渔业 (zh) (yúyè)
Czech: rybolov m
Danish: fiskeri (da) n
Dutch: visserij (nl) f
Esperanto: fiŝkaptado
Finnish: kalastus (fi), kalatalous (fi)
French: pêche (fr) f
Friulian: pescje f
Galician: pesca (gl) f
German: Fischfang (de) m
Hungarian: halászat (hu)
Indonesian: penangkapan ikan
Japanese: 漁 (ja) (ryō), 漁業 (ja) (ぎょぎょう, gyogyō)
Latvian: zvejniecība f
Macedonian: риба́рство n (ribárstvo), ри́болов m (ríbolov)
Malayalam: മത്സ്യബന്ധനം (ml) (matsyabandhanaṁ), മീൻപിടിത്തം (mīṉpiṭittaṁ)
Norwegian: fisking m or f
Bokmål: fiske (no) n, fiskeri (no) n

Nynorsk: fiske n, fiskeri n
Polish: rybołówstwo (pl) m, rybactwo (pl) n
Portuguese: pesca (pt) f
Romanian: pescuire (ro), pescărie (ro) f
Russian: рыболо́вство (ru) n (rybolóvstvo), ры́бная ло́вля f (rýbnaja lóvlja)
Spanish: pesca (es) f
Swedish: fiske (sv) n, fiskande (sv) n
Ukrainian: риба́льство n (rybálʹstvo)

place for catching fish

Dutch: stek (nl)
Finnish: kalapaikka (fi), apaja (fi), kalavedet, kalastusalue (fi)
Indonesian: pemancingan (id)
Japanese: 釣り場 (つりば, tsuriba) (sports), 漁場 (りょうば, ryōba) (business)
Latvian: zvejas vieta f, zvejasvieta f
Swedish: fiskevatten (sv) n

See also

(adj): See fishing
(adv): halieutically
(science): halieutics, piscatology
(writing on fishing): halieutics, piscatory

See also

piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian; piscatorially

Etymology 2

From fish +‎ -ing.

Verb

fishing

present participle and gerund of fish

Derived terms

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