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From Middle English fischynge fish -ing
fishing (countable and uncountable plural fishings
Stilt fishermen in Sri Lanka .( uncountable ) 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 ) 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 ) fishery , a place for catching fish .
1596 (date written; published 1633 ), Edmund Spenser , A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande [ … ] [ … ] Societie of Stationers, [ … ] →OCLC 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.
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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 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) ( mohigirī )
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 )
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Etymology 2
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From fish -ing
fishing
present participle and gerund of fish Derived terms
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