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

• Armenian: պարարտանյութ (hy) (parartanyutʿ)
• Bulgarian: тор m (tor)
• 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
• Finnish: lannoite (fi)
• French: fertilisant (fr), engrais (fr) m
• Galician: fertilizante (gl) m
• Georgian: სასუქი (sasuki)
• German: Dünger (de) m, Düngemittel (de) n
• Greek: λίπασμα (el) n (lípasma)
• Hebrew: דשן‏‎ (he) m (deshen)
• Hiligaynon: abóno
• Hungarian: trágya (hu)
• Italian: fertilizzante (it)
• Japanese: 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō), 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe)
• Khmer: ជី (km) (cii)
• Korean: 비료 (ko) (biryo) (肥料 (ko))

• Latvian: mēsli m pl, kūtsmēsli m pl
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luhya: embolea
• Macedonian: ѓубриво n (ǵúbrivo)
• Maori: wairākau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjødsel m, f

  Nynorsk: gjødsel f

• 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)
• Scottish Gaelic: leasachadh m, todhar m
• Spanish: abono orgánico m, fertilizante (es) m
• Swedish: gödsel (sv) c
• Turkish: gübre (tr), kön (tr)
• Ukrainian: добриво n (dobryvo)
• 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
• Finnish: lannoite (fi), apulanta (fi), keinolannoite
• French: fertilisant (fr)
• Galician: fertilizante (gl) m
• Georgian: სასუქი (sasuki)
• German: Handelsdünger m
• Greek: λίπασμα (el) n (lípasma)
• Hebrew: דשן‏‎ (he) m (deshen)
• Hungarian: táptalaj (hu)
• Latvian: mēslojums m
• Macedonian: вештачко ѓубриво n (véštačko ǵúbrivo)

• Maori: wairākau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kunstgjødsel m, f

  Nynorsk: kunstgjødsel f

• 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 c
• 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