fertilizer

English

Alternative forms

• (British) fertiliser

Etymology

From 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.

   The farmer spread fertiliser across the fields.

   Organic fertilisers are usually better for the environment.

2. (chemistry) A chemical compound created to have the same effect.

Derived terms

• antifertilizer
• biofertilizer
• microfertilizer
• nanofertilizer
• nonfertilizer
• 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) (parartanyutʻ)
• Assamese: সাৰ (xar)
• Azerbaijani: gübrə (az)
• Bashkir: ашлама (aşlama)
• Belarusian: удабрэ́нне n (udabrénnje), удабрэ́ньне n (udabrénʹnje), угнае́нне n (uhnajénnje), угнае́ньне n (uhnajénʹnje)
• Bengali: সার (bn) (śar)
• Bulgarian: тор m (tor)
• Burmese: မြေဩဇာ (my) (mreau:ja)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥料 (zh) (féiliào)

• 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)
• Hawaiian: mea hoʻomomona lepo
• Hebrew: דֶשֶׁן (he) m (déshen)
• 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), 肥やし (こやし, koyashi)
• Jeju: 비료 (biryo)
• 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 (puy)
• 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), бордуур (mn) (borduur) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (bordug-a), ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭᠤᠷ (borduɣur)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjødsel m or f

  Nynorsk: gjødsel f

• Oromo: xaa'oo
• Pashto: سره (ps) f (sǝ́ra)
• Persian:

  Iranian 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: ђу̏брӣво n, гно̏јӣво n

  Roman: đȕbrīvo (sh) n, gnȍjīvo (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 (poruandozi), нурӣ (nuri), нуриандозӣ (nuriandozi)
• Tatar: ашлама (tt) (aşlama)
• Thai: ปุ๋ย (th) (bpǔi)
• Turkish: gübre (tr), kön (tr)
• Turkmen: dökün
• Ukrainian: до́бриво n (dóbryvo)
• Urdu: کھاد m (khād)
• 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) (parartanyutʻ)
• Bulgarian: изку́ствен тор m (izkústven tor)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化肥 (zh) (huàféi)

• 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)
• Hawaiian: mea hoʻomomona lepo
• Hebrew: דשן (he) m (deshen)
• Hungarian: műtrágya (hu)
• Japanese: 化学肥料 (ja) (かがくひりょう, kagaku-hiryō)
• Latvian: mēslojums m
• Macedonian: вештачко ѓубриво n (veštačko ǵubrivo)
• Maori: wairākau
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бордоо (mn) (bordoo)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (bordug-a)

• 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: мінера́льне до́бриво n (minerálʹne dóbryvo), міндо́бриво (uk) n (mindóbryvo)
• 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