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Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-os ? Proto-Indo-European *-so-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-āsijos
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī English fertilizer
From fertilize -er
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 ) chemical compound created to have the same effect.( dysphemistic , derogatory , uncountable ) remains , especially obscured or to be forgotten .
Synonym: worm food 2026 January 30, Farrah Tomazin, “Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal”, in The Daily Beast [1] the original on 4 February 2026 :“Complainant reported being threatened by Trump’s then head of security that, if she ever talked of what went on there or who she saw, he would ”end up as fertilizer for the back nine holes like the other c--ts’,” it continued.
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 ) , удабрэ́ньне n ( udabrénʹnje ) , угнае́нне n ( uhnajénnje ) , угнае́ньне n ( uhnajénʹnje )
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 sterkaĵo
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 ( déshen )
Hiligaynon: abóno
Hindi: उर्वरक (hi) m ( urvarak )
Hungarian: trágya (hu)
Icelandic: áburður (is) m
Indonesian: pupuk (id)
Irish: leasú m
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 ( こやし, koyashi )
Jeju: 비료 ( biryo )
Kazakh: тыңайтқыш ( tıŋaytqıš )
Khmer: ជី (km) ( cii )
Korean: 비료(肥料) (ko) ( biryo )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: avisker (ku) , gubre (ku)
Kyrgyz: семирткич (ky) ( semirtkic )
Lao: ປຸ໋ຍ ປຸຽ ( puy )
Latvian: mēsli m pl kūtsmēsli m pl
Lithuanian: trąša f
Luhya: embolea
Macedonian: ѓубриво n ( ǵubrivo )
Malay: baja (ms)
Māori: wairākau
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бордоо (mn) ( bordoo ) , бордуур (mn) ( borduur ) ( China )
Mongolian script: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭᠠ ( borduɣ-a ) , ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭᠤᠷ ( borduɣur )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjødsel m or f
Nynorsk: gjødsel f
Oromo: xaa'oo
Pashto: سره (ps) f ( sǝ́ra )
Persian:
Iranian 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: ђу̏брӣво n гно̏јӣво n
Latin: đȕbrīvo (sh) n gnȍjīvo (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
Udmurt: мусылал ( musylal )
Ukrainian: до́бриво n ( dóbryvo )
Urdu: کھاد m ( khād )
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: изку́ствен тор m ( izkústven 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 )
Māori: wairākau
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бордоо (mn) ( bordoo )
Mongolian script: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭᠠ ( borduɣ-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)
Udmurt: мусылал ( musylal )
Ukrainian: мінера́льне до́бриво n ( minerálʹne dóbryvo ) , міндо́бриво (uk) n ( mindóbryvo )
Vietnamese: phân bón (vi)
Yoruba: ajílẹ̀
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