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English
Etymology
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).
Pronunciation
Verb
manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)
- To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: A J Valpy, , published 1814, →OCLC:A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.
1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward:Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
- To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
The farmer manured his fallow field.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. (First Quarto), London: Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, , published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]
Derived terms
Translations
to cultivate by manual labor
to apply manure
- Arabic: سَمَّدَ (sammada)
- Belarusian: угно́йваць impf (uhnójvacʹ), угнаі́ць pf (uhnaícʹ), удабра́ць pf (udabrácʹ), удо́брыць pf (udóbrycʹ)
- Bulgarian: торя́ (bg) impf (torjá)
- Czech: hnojit impf, pohnojit pf
- Danish: gøde (da), gødske
- Dutch: bemesten (nl)
- Esperanto: sterki
- Finnish: levittää lantaa
- Galician: estercar (gl), cuitar, estrumar (gl), estercoar
- Georgian: განოყიერება (ganoq̇iereba)
- German: düngen (de)
- Greek: λιπαίνω (el) (lipaíno)
- Irish: leasaigh
- Italian: concimare (it)
- Macedonian: ѓубри impf (ǵubri)
- Ottoman Turkish: فشقیلامق (fışkılamak)
- Polish: gnoić (pl) impf, ognoić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: estercar (pt), estrumar (pt)
- Russian: удобря́ть (ru) impf (udobrjátʹ), удо́брить (ru) pf (udóbritʹ), унаво́живать (ru) impf (unavóživatʹ), унаво́зить (ru) pf (unavózitʹ)
- Spanish: estercolar (es), abonar (es)
- Swedish: gödsla (sv)
- Ukrainian: угно́ювати impf (uhnójuvaty), угної́ти pf (uhnojíty), удо́брювати impf (udóbrjuvaty), удо́брити pf (udóbryty)
- Venetian: coltar (vec)
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Noun
manure (countable and uncountable, plural manures)
- Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
- 1985, Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future.
I hate manure!
- 1988, Dave Mustaine, "Hook in Mouth", Megadeth, So Far, So Good... So What!.
M, they will cover your grave with manure
2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
- Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
- a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint):
- Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.
- (euphemistic) Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
2005, Ginny Aiken, Design on a Crime, page 217:“You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
“What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”
Derived terms
Translations
excrement
- Albanian: bajgë (sq) f
- Arabic: رَوْث m (rawṯ), سَمَاد (samād), بِرَاز m (birāz)
- Egyptian Arabic: زبل m (zibl)
- Moroccan Arabic: غبار m (ḡəbar), مازير m (mæzir) (Doukkala area)
- Armenian: գոմաղբ (hy) (gomaġb)
- Aromanian: baligã
- Azerbaijani: peyin (az), gübrə (az)
- Belarusian: гной m (hnoj)
- Bengali: সার (bn) (śar)
- Bulgarian: есте́ствен тор m (estéstven tor), тор m (tor), гюбре́ (bg) n (gjubré) (dialectal)
- Burmese: မြေဩဇာ (my) (mreau:ja)
- Catalan: fem (ca) m
- Chamicuro: tuki
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 肥料 (zh) (féiliào), 糞肥/粪肥 (zh) (fènféi), 糞/粪 (zh) (fèn)
- Czech: hnůj (cs) m
- Dalmatian: lotum m
- Danish: møg c, gødning (da) c
- Dutch: mest (nl) m
- Esperanto: sterko
- Estonian: sõnnik
- Finnish: lanta (fi), sonta (fi)
- French: fumier (fr) m, purin (fr) m
- Galician: estrume (gl) m, esterco (gl) m, cuito m
- Gallo: fien m
- Georgian: ნეხვი (nexvi), ნაკელი (naḳeli), ფუნე (pune)
- German: Mist (de) m, Dung (de) m, Odel (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 m (maihstus)
- Greek: κοπριά (el) f (kopriá)
- Ancient: κοπριά f (kopriá), κόπρος m (kópros), σπέλεθος m (spélethos)
- Hebrew: זֶבֶל (he) m (zével)
- Hindi: खाद (hi) m (khād), पांस f (pāns)
- Hungarian: trágya (hu)
- Icelandic: mykja f
- Indonesian: pupuk (id)
- Irish: aoileach m
- Italian: letame (it) m, stallatico (it) m
- Japanese: 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe), 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō)
- Kazakh: көң (köñ)
- Khmer: ជីហរិត (cii haʼrɨt), ជីអាចម៍សត្វ (cii ʼac sat)
- Korean: 비료(肥料) (ko) (biryo), 똥 (ko) (ttong), 똥거름 (ko) (ttonggeoreum)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پەیین (peyîn)
- Northern Kurdish: peyîn (ku)
- Kyrgyz: көң (köŋ), кык (kık)
- Lao: ໂຄທາ (khō thā)
- Latin: stercus (la) n, fimum (la) n, fimus (la) m
- Latvian: mēsli m pl
- Lithuanian: mėšlas m pl
- Low German: Mest m, Mess (nds) m, Mist m
- Luxembourgish: Mëscht f
- Macedonian: лепешка f (lepeška), ѓубриво n (ǵubrivo), ѓубре n (ǵubre)
- Malay: baja (ms)
- Maltese: demel (mt) m
- Manx: eoylley
- Maori: wairākau, maniua
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: аргал (mn) (argal)
- Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵔ m (amazir)
- Norman: conré m (Jersey), feunmyi m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: møkk (no) m or f, gjødsel m or f
- Nynorsk: møkk f
- Occitan: fem m, fems (oc) m pl
- Ojibwe: moo
- Ottoman Turkish: فشقی (fışkı), تزك (tezek)
- Pashto: غوشېړ m (ǧošéṛ), مېزر m (mezár), ډېرۍ m (ḍerǝ́y)
- Pennsylvania German: Mischt m
- Persian: کود (fa) (kud), سرگین (fa) (sergin)
- Plautdietsch: Mest n
- Polish: nawóz (pl) m, gnój (pl) m
- Portuguese: estrume (pt) m, esterco (pt) m
- Quechua: wanu
- Romagnol: aldàn m
- Romanian: bălegar (ro) m
- Russian: наво́з (ru) m (navóz), удобре́ние (ru) n (udobrénije) (fertilizer), гной (ru) m (gnoj) (dialectal)
- Scottish Gaelic: buachar m, leasachadh m, todhar m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бале́га f, гно̑ј m
- Roman: baléga (sh) f, gnȏj (sh) m
- Slovak: hnoj (sk) m
- Slovene: gnoj (sl) m
- Spanish: estiércol (es) m, abono (es) m
- Sundanese: manur
- Swahili: mbolea (sw)
- Swedish: gödsel (sv) c
- Tajik: пору (poru), саргин (sargin)
- Tamil: இயற்கை உரம் (iyaṟkai uram)
- Tashelhit: ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵔ m (amazir)
- Thai: ปุ๋ย (th) (bpǔi), ปุ๋ยคอก (th) (bpǔi-kɔ̂ɔk)
- Tocharian B: weṃts
- Turkish: gübre (tr)
- Turkmen: dökün
- Ukrainian: гній m (hnij)
- Urdu: کھاد m (khād)
- Uyghur: چىلە (chile), ئوغۇت (oghut)
- Uzbek: oʻgʻit (uz), goʻng (uz)
- Venetian: leame (vec) m, grasa (vec) f
- Vietnamese: phân (vi), phân bón (vi)
- Walloon: ansene (wa) f
- Welsh: tail (cy) m
- Yiddish: מיסט n (mist)
- Yoruba: ẹlẹ́bọ́tọ
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