肥

Meaning

肥 centers on adding substance to make something rich or plump: fertilizing soil to make it fertile, fattening livestock, or pampering someone into softness. The manure sense is a natural extension as the material used for fertilizing.

• 肥料ひりょう
  N1

  manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost

• 肥満ひまん
  N2

  corpulence; fatness; obesity

• 肥大ひだい

  swelling; enlargement; becoming fat

• 肥えるこえる
  N1

  to grow fat; to gain weight; to put on weight

• 堆肥たいひ

  compost; manure

• 肥やしこやし

  manure; night soil; dung; fertiliser; fertilizer

• 肥こえ

  manure; night soil; dung; fertiliser; fertilizer

• 肥後ひご

  Higo (former province located in present-day Kumamoto Prefecture)

• 肥沃ひよく

  fertile; rich; productive

• 肥前ひぜん

  Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)

• 肥育ひいく

  fattening (cattle, pigs, etc.)

• 肥溜めこえだめ

  tank for holding human waste (used for fertilizer); night-soil reservoir; cesspool; cesspit

• 肥やすこやす

  to fertilize; to fertilise; to manure; to enrich

• 肥厚ひこう

  thickening (of organic tissue, e.g. skin); hypertrophy

• 施肥せひ

  manuring; fertilization; fertilisation

• 求肥ぎゅうひ

  gyūhi; soft Japanese confectionery made with rice flour, somewhat similar to Turkish delight

• 化学肥料かがくひりょう

  chemical fertilizer; chemical fertiliser

• 前立腺肥大症ぜんりつせんひだいしょう

  enlargement of the prostate

• 有機肥料ゆうきひりょう

  organic fertilizer; organic fertiliser

• 追肥ついひ

  (adding) extra fertilizer or manure (fertiliser)

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