fertilizer definition

English

Alternative forms

(British) fertiliser

Etymology

fertilize +‎ -er

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/
Audio (UK) (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.
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)
Assamese: সাৰ (xar)
Azerbaijani: gübrə (az)
Bashkir: ашлама (aşlama)
Belarusian: удабрэ́нне n (udabrénnje), угнае́нне n (uhnajénnje)
Bengali: সার (śar)
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
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)
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
Japanese: 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō), 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe)
Kazakh: тыңайтқыш (tyñaitqyş)
Khmer: ជី (km) (cii)
Korean: 비료(肥料) (ko) (biryo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: avisker (ku), gubre (ku)
Kyrgyz: семирткич (ky) (semirtkiç)

Lao: ປຸ໋ຍ, ປຸຽ
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)

Uyghurjin: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (borduɣ'a)
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
Swedish: gödsel (sv) c
Tagalog: pataba (tl)
Tajik: поруандозӣ (poruandozī), нурӣ (nurī), нуриандозӣ (nuriandozī)
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)
Westrobothnian: göning f
Yoruba: ajílẹ̀

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
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)
Hebrew: דשן‎ (he) m (deshen)
Hungarian: műtrágya (hu)
Latvian: mēslojums m
Macedonian: вештачко ѓубриво n (veštačko ǵubrivo)

Maori: wairākau
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, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Dictionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sterko

Norman: ^{(please verify)} engrais m (Jersey)

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