fertilizer

English

Alternative forms

• (British) fertiliser

Etymology

fertilize +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːɹtəlaɪzəɹ/

Noun

fertilizer (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizers)

1. A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
2. (chemistry) A chemical compound created to have the same effect.

Derived terms

• over-fertilization

Related terms

• fertilize

Translations

a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants

• Albanian: pleh (sq) m
• Arabic: سَمَاد‎ m (samād)
• Armenian: պարարտանյութ (hy) (parartanyutʿ)
• Assamese: সাৰ (xar)
• Azerbaijani: gübrə (az)
• Bashkir: ашлама (aşlama)
• Belarusian: удабрэ́нне n (udabrénnje), угнае́нне n (uhnajénnje)
• Bengali: সার (bn) (śar)
• Bulgarian: тор m (tor)
• Burmese: မြေဩဇာ (my) (mreau:ja)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥料 (zh) (féiliào), 化肥 (zh) (huàféi)

• Chuukese: koiasi
• Czech: hnojivo (cs) n
• Danish: gødning (da) c
• Dutch: mest (nl) m
• Esperanto: sterko
• Estonian: väetis
• Faroese: tøð n pl
• Finnish: lannoite (fi)
• French: fertilisant (fr), engrais (fr) m
• Friulian: fertilizant m
• Galician: fertilizante (gl) m
• Georgian: სასუქი (sasuki)
• German: Dünger (de) m, Düngemittel (de) n

  Alemannic German: Buu m

• Greek: λίπασμα (el) n (lípasma)
• Hebrew: דֶשֶׁן‎ (he) m (deshen)
• Hiligaynon: abóno
• Hindi: उर्वरक (hi) (urvarak), खाद (hi) m (khād)
• Hungarian: trágya (hu)
• Icelandic: áburður (is) m
• Indonesian: pupuk (id)
• Italian: fertilizzante (it) m, concime (it) m, letame (it) m (manure), stabbio (it) m
• Japanese: 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō), 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe)
• Kazakh: тыңайтқыш (tyñaitqyş)
• Khmer: ជី (km) (cii)
• Korean: 비료(肥料) (ko) (biryo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: avisker (ku), gubre (ku)

• Kyrgyz: семирткич (ky) (semirtkic)
• Lao: ປຸ໋ຍ, ປຸຽ
• Latvian: mēsli m pl, kūtsmēsli m pl
• Lithuanian: trąša f
• Luhya: embolea
• Macedonian: ѓубриво n (ǵubrivo)
• Malay: baja (ms)
• Maori: wairākau
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бордоо (mn) (bordoo)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (borduɣ-a)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjødsel m or f

  Nynorsk: gjødsel f

• Oromo: xaa'oo
• Persian: کود‎ (fa) (kud)
• Piedmontese: fertilisant m
• Pohnpeian: koiasi
• Polish: nawóz (pl) m
• Portuguese: fertilizante (pt) m
• Quechua: wanu
• Romanian: îngrășământ (ro) n, fertilizant m
• Russian: удобре́ние (ru) n (udobrénije), наво́з (ru) m (navóz) (manure)
• Scottish Gaelic: leasachadh m, todhar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ђубриво n, гнојиво n

  Roman: đubrivo (sh) n, gnojivo (sh) n

• Slovak: hnojivo (sk) n
• Slovene: gnojilo n
• Spanish: abono orgánico m, fertilizante (es) m, abono (es) m
• Swedish: gödsel (sv) c
• Tagalog: pataba (tl)
• Tajik: поруандозӣ (poruandozī), нурӣ (nurī), нуриандозӣ (nuriandozī)
• Tatar: ашлама (tt) (aşlama)
• Thai: ปุ๋ย (th) (bpǔi)
• Turkish: gübre (tr), kön (tr)
• Turkmen: dökün
• Ukrainian: до́бриво n (dóbryvo)
• Uyghur: ئوغۇت‎ (oghut)
• Uzbek: oʻgʻit (uz)
• Vietnamese: phân bón (vi), phân (vi)
• Yoruba: ajílẹ̀

a chemical compound created to have the same effect.

• Armenian: պարարտանյութ (hy) (parartanyutʿ)
• Bulgarian: изкуствен тор m (izkustven tor)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m
• Danish: kunstgødning (da) c
• Dutch: kunstmest (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĥemia fekundilo, kemia fekundilo
• Finnish: lannoite (fi), apulanta (fi), keinolannoite, mineraalilannoite
• French: fertilisant (fr)
• Galician: fertilizante (gl) m
• Georgian: სასუქი (sasuki)
• German: Handelsdünger m
• Greek: λίπασμα (el) n (lípasma)
• Hebrew: דשן‎ (he) m (deshen)
• Hungarian: műtrágya (hu)
• Latvian: mēslojums m
• Macedonian: вештачко ѓубриво n (veštačko ǵubrivo)
• Maori: wairākau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kunstgjødsel m or f, mineralgjødsel

  Nynorsk: kunstgjødsel f, mineralgjødsel

• Polish: nawóz (pl) m
• Portuguese: fertilizante (pt) m
• Romanian: fertilizator n, îngrășământ (ro) n
• Russian: удобре́ние (ru) n (udobrénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: leasachadh m
• Spanish: fertilizante (es) m
• Swedish: konstgödsel (sv) c
• Thai: ปุ๋ย (th) (bpǔi)
• Turkish: yapay gübre, suni gübre (tr)
• Ukrainian: мінеральне добриво n (mineralʹne dobryvo), міндобриво (uk) n (mindobryvo)
• Vietnamese: phân bón (vi)
• Yoruba: ajílẹ̀

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sterko
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} engrais m (Jersey)

See also

• dung
• lawn food
• manure