fertilizer

English

Alternative forms

(British) fertiliser

Etymology

From fertilize +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(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.
(chemistry) A chemical compound created to have the same effect.

Derived terms

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), 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: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (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

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: 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: мінеральне добриво n (mineralʹne dobryvo), міндобриво (uk) n (mindobryvo)
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)