fish

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
 * 2)  Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
 * 3)  Cod; codfish.
 * 4)  The flesh of the fish used as food.
 * 5)  A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
 * 6)  A woman.
 * 7)  An easy victim for swindling.
 * 8)  A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
 * 9)  A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
 * 10)  A purchase used to fish the anchor.
 * 11)  A torpedo self-propelled explosive device.
 * 12)  A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
 * 13) Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
 * 14) Class, the lampreys (no jaw)
 * 15) Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including ))
 * 16) Class, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
 * 17) Superclass, bony fish.
 * 18)  The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
 * 19)  A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
 * 20)  A male homosexual; a gay man.
 * 1)  A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
 * 2) Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebrae)
 * 3) Class, the lampreys (no jaw)
 * 4) Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including ))
 * 5) Class, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
 * 6) Superclass, bony fish.
 * 7)  The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
 * 8)  A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
 * 9)  A male homosexual; a gay man.
 * 1)  A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
 * 2)  A male homosexual; a gay man.

Usage notes

 * The collective plural of fish is normally fish in the UK, except in archaic texts where fishes may be encountered; in the US, fishes is encountered as well, but much less commonly. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is fishes.

Synonyms

 * mark
 * Go Fish
 * donkey, donk

Hyponyms

 * seafood
 * seafood

Related terms

 * fishly, piscine, fishy
 * The Fish, Pisces
 * piscifauna
 * pisci-
 * See fisher
 * piscivore
 * piscolous
 * piscicidal
 * fishly, piscose, fishy, fishlike
 * fishlore, piscatology
 * pisciform
 * fishmonger, piscitarian
 * fishful, pisculent
 * fish-skin disease
 * fishdom, fishhood, piscinity , fishiness
 * (taxonomical): Actinopterygii, bony fish, cartilaginous fish, finned fish, finfish,, Sarcopterygii

Etymology 2
Deverbal from to fish (etymology 3).

Noun

 * 1) A period of time spent fishing.
 * 2) An instance of seeking something.
 * 1) An instance of seeking something.

Etymology 3
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
 * 2) * 19th c., anonymous, "The Bonny Ship the 'Diamond'"
 * It's cheer up, my lads, let your hearts never fail,
 * For the bonny ship the Diamond goes a-fishing for the whale.
 * 1)  To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
 * 2)  To use as bait when fishing.
 * 3)  To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
 * 4)  To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
 * 5)  Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
 * 6)  To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
 * 7)  To hoist the flukes of.
 * 1)  To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
 * 2)  Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
 * 3)  To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
 * 4)  To hoist the flukes of.
 * 1)  Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
 * 2)  To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
 * 3)  To hoist the flukes of.
 * 1)  Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
 * 2)  To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
 * 3)  To hoist the flukes of.
 * 1)  To hoist the flukes of.

Synonyms

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

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: صيّد
 * Armenian: ձուկ բռնել
 * Aromanian: piscuescu
 * Asturian: pescar
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: рыба́чыць, лаві́ць ры́бу
 * Borôro: wogu
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ловя́ ри́ба
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: mamasol, mamukot, managat, mangisda
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏧᎲᏍᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 釣魚
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: *michahci, michma
 * Czech: rybařit
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: fiŝkapti
 * Fijian: siwa, qoli
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: pescjâ, pesčhâ
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍉𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἁλιεύω
 * Greenlandic: aalisarpoq
 * Guaraní: kutu, pirakutu
 * Hawaiian: lawaiʻa
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: piscar
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: ad·claid
 * Istriot: pascà
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: piska, peská
 * Kaingang: vim ke
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ປະມົງ
 * Latin: piscor
 * Latvian: ,
 * Lithuanian: žvejoti, žuvauti, meškerioti
 * Lombard: pescà
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Malay: menangkap ikan, memancing
 * Malayalam: മീൻപിടിക്കുക
 * Maori: hī, matira , hao , māngoingoi , makamaka , makamaka ika
 * Middle English: fisshen
 * Norman: pêtchi
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: fiscian
 * Persian: ماهی‌گیری
 * Polish: łowić ryby,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: challway
 * Romani:
 * Kalo Finnish Romani: matšalaa
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: pestgar, pescar, pastgear
 * Russian:, лови́ть ры́бу
 * Sardinian: piscae, piscai, piscare
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Shor: палықтарға
 * Slovene:, loviti ribe
 * Southern Ohlone: huynina
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: fisi
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ตกปลา,
 * Tok Pisin: huk
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, лови́ти ри́бу
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: fiskje
 * White Hmong: nuv ntses


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 * Greek:
 * Russian: ,
 * Walloon:


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 * Greek:
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Etymology 4
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A counter, used in various games.