Fish

Noun

 * 1)  A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
 * 2)  The flesh of the fish used as food.
 * 3)  A period of time spent fishing.
 * 4)  A card game in which the object is to obtain pairs of cards.
 * 5)  A woman.
 * 6)  An easy victim for swindling.
 * 7)  A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
 * 8)  Torpedo
 * 9)  A bad poker player.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to fish; piscine; ichthyic.

Verb

 * 1)  To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
 * 2)  To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
 * 3)  To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
 * 4)  To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
 * 5)  Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
 * 6)  To attempt to gain.
 * 7)  To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).

Adjectives for Fish
golden; artificially-grown; live; game broiled; diminutive; silly; slim; silvery tawny; iridescent; sodden; much-comforted playful; meddlesome; mystical; speckled bony; cartilaginous; salmonoid; shining; putrid; floating; edible; brain-giving; fin-twinkling; fiery; armored; magnificent; surface; fatted; voracious; darting; glistening.

Verbs for Fish
abound in—; catch—; cure—; drag for—; feed—; harbor—; limit—; plant—; prepare —; raise—; shred—; steam—; yield—; — darts off; —deposits eggs; —flashes past; — flops about; —hovers near; —inhabits; — schools; —spawns; —squirms; —swoops past.

Adverbs for Fish
intently; contentedly; placidly; somnolently; abstractedly; ruminatively; enthusiastically; skillfully; professionally; devotedly.

Synonyms for Fish

 * angle, drop in a line
 * rifle, rummage
 * angle
 * go fish

Thesaurus
catfish, caviar, cent, century, cetacean, channel bass, char, chimaera, chub, chump, cichlid, cinch, cisco, clam, cobia, cod, codfish, coelacanth, conger, conger eel, copper, crappie, credulous person, croaker, cull, cutlass fish, cutthroat trout, dace, dap, darter, devilfish, dib, dibble, dime, doctor fish, dogfish, dollar, dollar bill, dolphin, dorado, dragon fish, drive, drum, drumfish, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, eel, eelpout, electric ray, fall guy, fifty cents, filefish, fin, fingerling, fish, fish eggs, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, flame tetra, flounder, fluke, fly-fish, fool, four bits, frogskin, fry, game fish, gar, gig, globefish, go fishing, goatfish, gobe-mouches, goby, goldfish, grand, greener, greenhorn, greeny, grig, grilse, grouper, grunt, guddle, gudgeon, gull, gunnel, haddock, hake, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, halibut, herring, hippocampus, hogfish, homing torpedo, horse mackerel, hundred-dollar bill, innocent, iron man, jack, jacklight, jewfish, jig, kingfish, kipper, kippered salmon, lake trout, lamprey, lantern fish, leadpipe cinch, ling, loach, lung fish, mackerel, mako shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, manta, marine animal, marlin, menhaden, mill, minnow, minny, monkey, moray eel, mudfish, muskellunge, nekton, net, nickel, oquassa, paddlefish, panfish, papagallo, patsy, penny, perch, permit, pickerel, pigeon, pike, pike perch, pilchard, pilot fish, piranha, plaice, plankton, plaything, poisson, pollack, pompano, porbeagle, porgy, porpoise, prize sap, puffer, pushover, quarter, rainbow trout, ray, red cent, red herring, redfin, redfish, roach, rocket torpedo, roe, roosterfish, salmon, salmon trout, sap, saphead, sardine, sawbuck, sawfish, schlemiel, scup, sea bass, sea horse, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, seafood, seine, sergeant fish, shark, shiner, shrimp, silver dollar, sitting duck, skate, skin, smacker, smelt, smoked herring, smolt, snapper, snook, sole, spar torpedo, speckled trout, spin, sponge, sprat, steelhead, stickleback, still-fish, stooge, striped bass, sturgeon, submarine torpedo, sucker, sunfish, swordfish, tarpon, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thornback ray, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, thresher, toadfish, tope, torch, torpedo fish, toy, trawl, triggerfish, troll, tropical fish, trout, trusting soul, tuna, tunny, turbot, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, veiltail, victim, wahoo, walleye, walleyed pike, weakfish, whale, whitefish, whiting, yard, yellowtail, C, C-note, Chinook salmon, Loch Ness monster, Sunapee trout, aerial torpedo, albacore, alevin, alewife, alligator gar, amber jack, anchovy, angel fish, angle, anguille, archerfish, argusfish, babe, bait the hook, bangalore torpedo, barbel, barn door skate, barracuda, basking shark, bass, benthon, benthos, bill, black bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bleak, blind fish, blue fish, blue shark, bluegill, bob, bone, bonito, boob, bowfin, bream, brook trout, brown trout, buck, buffalo fish, bullhead, burbot, butt, butterfish, candlefish, capelin, carp, cartwheel.

Derived terms

 * fishable
 * fisher
 * fishery


 * fishline
 * fishnet/fishnet stockings
 * fish out

Derived terms

 * big fish in a small pond
 * bony fish
 * cold fish
 * dragonfish
 * drink like a fish
 * fish and chips
 * fish bowl/fishbowl
 * fishbrain
 * fishcake
 * fish-eating grin
 * fish finger
 * fishful
 * fishgig
 * fish hook/fishhook
 * fishkill
 * fish ladder, fishway
 * fishless
 * fishlike
 * fishmeal


 * fishmonger
 * fishmoth
 * fish out of water
 * fish paste/fishpaste
 * fish pond/fishpond
 * fishpound
 * fishpox
 * fishroom
 * fish sauce
 * fishskin
 * fishskin disease
 * fish slice
 * fish supper
 * fishtail
 * fish tank/fishtank
 * fish tape
 * fishwife
 * fishwoman
 * fishworm


 * fishy
 * give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
 * goatfish
 * goldfish
 * have other fish to fry
 * like shooting fish in a barrel
 * jellyfish
 * lumpfish
 * overfish
 * shellfish
 * silverfish
 * starfish
 * neither fish nor fowl
 * surgeonfish
 * there's plenty more fish in the sea
 * tuna fish

Etymology

 * 1) From  fisc:, from  (compare West Frisian/Swedish fisk:, Dutch vis:, German Fisch:), from  (compare Irish iasc:, Latin piscis:, Russian пискарь: 'groundling', Sanskrti picchā 'calf (leg)', picchila, picchala 'slimy, slippery').
 * 2) From  fiscian:, from.

Noun

 * Abenaki: namas
 * Abkhaz: аҧсыӡ
 * Afrikaans: vis
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: sa-yak
 * Amharic: ዓሣ
 * Arabic: سمكة,  سمك
 * Egyptian: (sámaka)
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܢܘܢܐ (nūnā’)
 * Hebrew: נונא (nūnā’)
 * Arapaho: nowoˀ; biθi
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Assiniboine: hoga
 * Avestan: (masya)
 * Aymara: challwa
 * Azeri: balıq
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: рыба
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: pesk
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ငါး
 * Catalan: peix (ca)
 * Cebuano: isda
 * Ch'orti': čay
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏣᏗ (atsadi)
 * Cheyenne: nomaˀne
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Gan: 鱼 (enlei)
 * Hainanese: 鱼 (hu)
 * Hakka: 魚 (ng)
 * Mandarin: 魚, 鱼
 * Chuvash:
 * Comanche: pékwi
 * Cora: waʼi
 * Cree: ᑭᒧᓭᐤ (kinosew)
 * Crimean Tatar: balıq
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Moroccan Arabic: ,
 * Erzya: кал (kal)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Fijian: ika
 * Finnish:
 * Flathead: sǝˀwéˀwɬ
 * French:
 * Fula: liingu
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician: peixe
 * Gamilaraay: guya
 * Georgian:
 * German: Fisch (de)
 * Gothic: fisks
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Greenlandic: aalisagaq
 * Guaraní: pira
 * Gujarati: માછલી (māčlī)
 * Haida: čín
 * Hausa: kifi
 * Hawaiian: iʻa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi: मछली, मत्स्य, माही
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: fisho
 * Igbo: azụ
 * Ilocano: sida, ikan, lames
 * Indonesian:
 * Acehnese:
 * Balinese:
 * Banjarese:
 * Buginese:
 * Javanese: iwak
 * Kaili: bau
 * Mandar: bau
 * Madurese:
 * Sundanese:
 * Interlingua: pisce
 * Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᒃ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 魚, 魚
 * Kalmyk:
 * Kannada: ಮೀನು
 * Kansa: ho
 * Karachay-Balkar: ,
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: балық
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: ត្រី
 * Kikuyu:
 * Klamath-Modoc: kyem
 * Korean: 물고기
 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: masî ,
 * Kwak'wala: me
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປາ
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Logudorese Sardinian: pische
 * Low German: Fisk
 * Luhya: ,
 * Luo:
 * Luxembourgish: Fësch
 * Macedonian: риба
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മീന്‍, മത്സ്യം
 * Maltese: ħuta
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: मासा (māsā)
 * Marshallese: ek
 * Middle Dutch: visc
 * Middle English: fishe
 * Middle High German: visch
 * Middle Low German: visch
 * Mingo: kẽtsõ
 * Miwok: ˀellēˊ
 * Mohawk: kéntsion
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: michin
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali: माछा
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: fishe
 * O'odham: watopi
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: ᑮᑰᓒ (giigoonh)
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English:
 * Old French:
 * Old High German: fisc
 * Old Irish: íasc
 * Old Norse: fiskr
 * Old Saxon: fisk
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor: ,
 * Iron: ,
 * Pawnee: kʌṣixi
 * Persian: ماهی
 * Picard:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: challwa
 * Quileute: ˀá·lita
 * Rohingya: mas
 * Romani: masho
 * : matšo
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: iasg
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: риба
 * Roman: riba
 * Shor:
 * Shoshone: baingwi
 * Shuswap: swewll
 * Sichuan Yi:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: මාළුවා
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: sehlapi
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sumerian: ku₆
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: isda
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: மீன்
 * Taos: pə̏’ə́na
 * Tatar: балык,
 * Telugu: చేప
 * Tetum: ikan
 * Thai: ปลา
 * Tibetan: ཉ (ña)
 * Tlingit: x̣ɑ́t
 * Tocharian A: läks
 * Tocharian B: laks
 * Tok Pisin: pis
 * Tongan: ika
 * Tonkawa: nɛswʌlˀʌn
 * Tsimshian: hóːn
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Tupinambá: pirá
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ubykh:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مچھلی, متسیہ, ماہی
 * Uyghur: بېلىق
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: pése
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: fit,  hifit,  jifit,  fitül,  fitil
 * Walloon: pexhon
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: fisk
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: פֿיש
 * Yucatec: kay
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: פֿיש
 * Yucatec: kay


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: ψάρια
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Swahili:
 * Venetian: pési
 * Volapük: fitem
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Crimean Tatar: balıq
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Erzya: кал (kal)
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Icelandic:
 * Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᒃ
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 魚肉 (ぎょにく, gyoniku)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: žuvis, žuviena


 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: മീന്‍
 * Mandarin:
 * Picard:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: pește
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: риба
 * Roman: riba
 * Slovak: ryba, rybacina
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar: балык
 * Tetum: ikan
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian: pesse
 * Welsh: ,


 * Croatian: ribolov
 * Finnish:, kala
 * French:
 * German: Fischzug
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: halászat, halászás
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: łowienie ryb


 * Romanian: pescuit, pescuire
 * Russian: рыбалка (rybalka) (recreation), рыбная ловля (rýbnaja lóvlja)  (industry)
 * Slovak:
 * recreational: rybačka, rybárčenie , rybárstvo
 * industrial: rybolov
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: ψάρεμα


 * Swahili:


 * Danish:


 * Swahili:


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: риба
 * Roman: riba


 * Swahili:


 * Greek:
 * Russian:


 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:

Adjective

 * Armenian: ձկնային,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: vis-, (plural: vissen-)
 * Finnish: modifier in a compound word
 * French: de poisson
 * Icelandic: fisk-, fiski-
 * Interlingua: de pisce
 * Italian: di pesce
 * Macedonian: рибен, рибин


 * Norwegian: fiske- prefix in a compound word
 * Polish: rybi, rybia , rybie
 * Portuguese: de peixe, písceo
 * Romanian: de pește
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: ribji, ribja , ribje
 * Swahili:
 * Zhuang:

Verb

 * Arabic: صاد ( يصيد)
 * Armenian: ձուկ բռնել
 * Basque: arrantzan egin
 * Breton: pesketa
 * Catalan: pescar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 漁, 渔, 釣魚, 钓鱼
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: vissen, hengelen, snoeken (when fishing for this particular kind of fish)
 * Fijian: siwa, qoli
 * Finnish:
 * French: faire la pêche, pêcher
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: kutu, pirakutu
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: veiða (also ‘hunt’), fiska (less common)
 * Indonesian: pancing
 * Interlingua: piscar


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 釣る
 * Latin: piscor
 * Latvian: zvejot, makšķerēt
 * Lithuanian: žvejoti, žuvauti, meškerioti
 * Luxembourgish: fëschen
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: łowić ryby
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * : matšalaa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: рыбачить, ловить рыбу
 * Slovene: ribariti, loviti ribe
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (dtòk bplaa)
 * Tok Pisin: huk
 * Welsh: pysgota
 * West Frisian: fiskje


 * Finnish:, ;
 * Greek:


 * Russian: рыбачить, ловить рыбу


 * Finnish:
 * : piscar


 * Russian: выуживать, выудить
 * Russian: выуживать, выудить


 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic: veiða upp úr, fiska
 * Russian: выуживать, выудить


 * Finnish:, , vongata


 * Finnish: prassata