fertilizer

English

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Alternative forms

• (British) fertiliser

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.

Translations

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

• Bulgarian: тор m (tor)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: hnojivo (cs) n
• Danish: gødning c
• Dutch: mest (nl) m
• Finnish: lannoite (fi)
• French: fertilisant (fr), engrais (fr) m
• Galician: fertilizante (gl) m
• German: Dünger (de) m, Düngemittel 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)
• Korean: 비료 (ko) (biryo) (肥料 (ko))
• Macedonian: ѓубриво n (ǵúbrivo)
• Maori: wairākau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjødsel m, f

  Nynorsk: gjødsel f

• Polish: nawóz (pl) m
• Portuguese: fertilizante (pt) m
• Romanian: îngrășământ (ro) n
• Russian: удобрение (ru) n (udobrénije), навоз (ru) m (navóz)
• Scottish Gaelic: leasachadh m, todhar m
• Spanish: abono orgánico m
• Swahili: mbolea (sw)
• Swedish: gödsel (sv) c
• Turkish: gübre (tr)

a chemical compound created to have the same effect.

• Bulgarian: изкуствен тор m (izkustven tor)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m
• Danish: kunstgødning (da) c
• Dutch: kunstmest (nl) m
• Finnish: lannoite (fi), apulanta, keinolannoite
• French: fertilisant (fr)
• Galician: fertilizante (gl) m
• German: Handelsdünger m
• Greek: λίπασμα (el) n (lípasma)
• Hebrew: דשן (he) m (deshen)
• Hungarian: táptalaj (hu)
• 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
• Russian: удобрение (ru) n (udobrénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: leasachadh m
• Spanish: fertilizante m
• Swahili: mbolea (sw)
• Swedish: konstgödsel c
• Turkish: yapay gübre, suni gübre (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: sterko
• French: engrais (fr) m

• Jèrriais: engrais m

Derived terms

• over-fertilization

Related terms

• fertilize

See also

• dung
• manure