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)

A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
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)
Azerbaijani: gübrə (az)
Belarusian: удабрэ́нне n (udabrénnje), угнае́нне n (uhnajénnje)
Bengali: সার (sar)
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
Estonian: väetis
Finnish: lannoite (fi)
French: fertilisant (fr), engrais (fr) 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)
Hungarian: trágya (hu)
Icelandic: áburður (is) m
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 (ko) (biryo) (肥料 (ko))

Kyrgyz: семирткич (ky) (semirtkiç)
Lao: ປຸ໋ຍ
Latvian: mēsli m pl, kūtsmēsli m pl
Lithuanian: trąša f
Luhya: embolea
Macedonian: ѓубриво n (ǵubrivo)
Maori: wairākau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjødsel m or f

Nynorsk: gjødsel f
Persian: کود‎ (fa) (kud)
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
Tajik: поруандозӣ (poruandozī)
Thai: ปุ๋ย (th) (bpǔi)
Turkish: gübre (tr), kön (tr)
Turkmen: dökün
Ukrainian: до́бриво n (dóbryvo)
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
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 (veštačko ǵubrivo)

Maori: wairākau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kunstgjødsel m or 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 (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)