fertilizer

English

Alternative forms

• (British) fertiliser

Etymology

fertilize +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/
• (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. 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 (ašlama)
• Belarusian: удабрэ́нне n (udabrénnje), угнае́нне n (uhnajénnje)
• Bengali: সার (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
• Japanese: 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō), 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe)
• Kazakh: тыңайтқыш (tıñaytqış)
• Khmer: ជី (km) (cii)
• Korean: 비료(肥料) (ko) (biryo)
• Kurdish:

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

• Kyrgyz: семирткич (ky) (semirtkiç)

• 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)

  Uyghurjin: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (borduɣ-a)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjødsel m or f

  Nynorsk: gjødsel f

• 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
• 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)
• Westrobothnian: göning f

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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. 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