English
Etymology
From fertilize + -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːɹtəlaɪzəɹ/
Noun
fertilizer (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizers)
- 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.
- (chemistry) A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
Derived terms
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), 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)
- 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 (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), 肥やし (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 (p)
- 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: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭᠠ (bordug-a), ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭᠤᠷ (borduɣur)
- 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 (poruandozi), нурӣ (nuri), нуриандозӣ (nuriandozi)
- 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
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a chemical compound created to have the same effect
- Armenian: պարարտանյութ (hy) (parartanyutʻ)
- Bulgarian: изкуствен тор m (izkustven 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: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭᠠ (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: мінеральне добриво n (mineralʹne dobryvo), міндобриво (uk) n (mindobryvo)
- Vietnamese: phân bón (vi)
- Yoruba: ajílẹ̀
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Translations to be checked
- Esperanto: (please verify) sterko
- Norman: (please verify) engrais m (Jersey)
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See also