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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?sh, IPA^(key): /f??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: phish, ghoti

Etymology 1

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fis? (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”) (compare West Frisian fisk, Dutch vis, Danish fisk, Norwegian fisk, Swedish fisk, German Fisch), from Proto-Indo-European *peys?- (“fish”) (compare Irish iasc, Latin piscis).

Noun

fish (countable and uncountable, plural fish or fishes)

1. (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

2. (archaic or loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3. (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
4. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

5. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
7. (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
8. (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
9. (countable, nautical) 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. (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
11. (countable, nautical, military) A torpedo (the self-propelled explosive device).
    • 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:

      The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.

12. (zoology) A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
    1. Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
    2. Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
    3. Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
       1. Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
       2. Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
13. (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
14. (prison slang) a new (usually vulnerable) prisoner

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

• (potential swindling victim): mark
• (card game): Go Fish
• (bad poker player): donkey, donk

Hyponyms

• (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills): Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes
• (food): seafood

Derived terms

Related terms

• (adj): fishly, piscine, fishy (inf.)
• (astronomical): The Fish, Pisces
• (collective): piscifauna
• (combinatorial form): pisci- (Latinate, general)
• (fish-catcher): See fisher
• (fish-eater): piscivore
• (fish-infesting): piscolous
• (fish-killing): piscicidal
• (fish-like): fishly, piscose (culinary), fishy, fishlike (inf.)
• (fish science): fishlore, piscatology (irreg.)
• (fish-shaped): pisciform
• (fish vendor): fishmonger, piscitarian
• (full of fish): fishful, pisculent
• (skin disorder): fish-skin disease
• (state of being a fish): fishdom, fishhood (formal), piscinity (formal), fishiness (inf.)

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: fisi
• ? Chinook Jargon: pish
• ? Finnish: fisu
• ? Zulu: ufishi

Translations

See fish/translations § Noun.

See also

• Appendix:Fish

Etymology 2

Deverbal from to fish (etymology 3).

Noun

fish (plural fishes)

1. A period of time spent fishing.

2. An instance of seeking something.

Etymology 3

From Old English fiscian, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk?n, from Proto-Germanic *fisk?n?.

Verb

fish (third-person singular simple present fishes, present participle fishing, simple past and past participle fished)

1. (intransitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
   • 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.

   She went to the river to fish for trout.

2. (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

3. (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
4. (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

   Synonym: rummage

5. (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Laoctonos is fishing for a compliment,
     But ’tis his due. Yes, you have drunk more wine,
     And shed more blood, than any man in Thebes.

6. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
7. (nautical, transitive) 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).
   • 1970, James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815, Wordsworth (1998), page 143:

     […] the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.

8. (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
   • 1860, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons (page 214)

     Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]

Synonyms

• (try to catch a fish): angle, drop in a line
• (try to find something): rifle, rummage
• (attempt to gain (compliments, etc)): angle

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French fiche (“peg, mark”).

Noun

fish (plural fishes)

1. (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.

References

• fish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• Fish (disambiguation) on the English Wikipedia. English Wikipedia
• fish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fish (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fishing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

fish (plural fishes or fish)

1. Alternative form of fisch

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland? (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

Noun

lant (uncountable)

1. Aged urine.

Translations

Verb

lant (third-person singular simple present lants, present participle lanting, simple past and past participle lanted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lant (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Compare lance.

Noun

lant (plural lants)

1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes. The common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.

Synonyms

• launce
• sand eel
• sand lance

Anagrams

• Nat'l, natl.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• lånt (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?. Cognate with German Land, English land.

Noun

lant n (plural lèntar) (Sette Comuni)

1. land
2. country, nation

Declension

References

• “lant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Noun

lant m (plural lants)

1. (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

Synonyms

• zébu

Further reading

• “lant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Germanic language, possibly via Bavarian. Attested around 1405. Compare Middle High German lute, Early New High German laut, German Laute, from Old French leüt, from Arabic ????????? (al-??d, “wood, lute”) (literally, "the wood").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?nt]
• Hyphenation: lant

Noun

lant (plural lantok)

1. (music) lute

Declension

Synonyms

• koboz
• líra

Derived terms

• lantos

(Compound words):

• forgólant
• teker?lant

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch lant

Noun

lant n

1. (dry) land
2. (piece of) land
3. country, region
4. ground, earth

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: land
  • Afrikaans: land
  • ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
• Limburgish: landj
• Zealandic: land

Further reading

• “lant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German lant

Noun

lant n

1. land
2. country

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

  Swabian: Lahnd

• Bavarian: Land, Lond, Laund, Lånd

  Cimbrian: lant, lånt

• Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

  Hunsrik: Land

  Luxembourgish: Land

• German: Land
  • ? Polish: l?d
• Rhine Franconian:

  Palatine German: Lond

  Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

• Vilamovian: ?aond
• Yiddish: ?????? (land)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Noun

lant n

1. land (as opposed to water)
2. land, terrain
3. territory

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: lant
  • Dutch: land
    • Afrikaans: land
    • ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
  • Limburgish: landj
  • Zealandic: land

Further reading

• “lant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Compare Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old English land, lond, Old Norse land, Gothic ???????????????? (land).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/

Noun

lant n

1. land
2. country

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: lant
  • Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

    Swabian: Lahnd

  • Bavarian: Land, Lond, Laund, Lånd

    Cimbrian: lant, lånt

  • Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

    Hunsrik: Land

    Luxembourgish: Land

  • German: Land
    • ? Polish: l?d
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: Lond

    Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

  • Vilamovian: ?aond
  • Yiddish: ?????? (land)