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• fertiliser (UK)

From fertilize + -er.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːɹtəlaɪzəɹ/

fertilizer (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizers)

1. 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.
2. (chemistry) A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
3. (dysphemistic, derogatory, uncountable) Human 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], archived from 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.

• antifertilizer

• biofertilizer

• microfertilizer

• nanofertilizer

• nonfertilizer

• over-fertilization

• fertilize

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
• 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) (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 (こやし, 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 (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: ᠪᠣᠷᠳᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (bordug-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: 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)

• Udmurt: мусылал (musylal)

• Ukrainian: мінера́льне до́бриво n (minerálʹne dóbryvo), міндо́бриво (uk) n (mindóbryvo)

• Vietnamese: phân bón (vi)

• Yoruba: ajílẹ̀

• dung

• lawn food

• manure