compost

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.pɒst/
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• General-American: /ˈkɑm.poʊst/
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• India: /ˈkɔːm.poːsʈ/
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• India: /kəmˈpoːsʈ/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 M P OW0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English compost, from Old Northern French compost (“a mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land, also a condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, composite, and kompot.

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: компо́ст (kompóst) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Catalan: compost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Chinese Mandarin: 堆肥 (duīféi) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Czech: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Danish: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Dutch: compost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Esperanto: kompoŝto — decayed remains of organic matter
• Finnish: kompostimulta — decayed remains of organic matter
• Finnish: komposti — decayed remains of organic matter
• French: compost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Galician: compost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Galician: estrume — decayed remains of organic matter
• German: Kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Greek: φουσκί (fouskí) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Greek: κοπρόχωμα (kopróchoma) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Ido: komposto — decayed remains of organic matter
• Ido: dungo — decayed remains of organic matter
• Indonesian: kompos — decayed remains of organic matter
• Italian: compost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Japanese: 堆肥 (taihi) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Japanese: コンポスト (konposuto) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Korean: 퇴비 (toebi) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Korean: 콤포스트 (komposeuteu) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Macedonian: компост (kompost) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Māori: onepōpopo — decayed remains of organic matter
• Norwegian Bokmål: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Polish: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Portuguese: composto — decayed remains of organic matter
• Russian: компо́ст (kompóst) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Russian: перегно́й (peregnój) — decayed remains of organic matter
• Slovene: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Spanish: compost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Swedish: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Turkish: kompost — decayed remains of organic matter
• Vietnamese: phân trộn — decayed remains of organic matter
• Bulgarian: компостирам (kompostiram) — to produce compost
• Catalan: compostar — to produce compost
• Czech: kompostovat — to produce compost
• Danish: kompostere — to produce compost
• Dutch: composteren — to produce compost
• Finnish: kompostoida — to produce compost
• Galician: compostar — to produce compost
• German: kompostieren — to produce compost
• Italian: compostare — to produce compost
• Māori: whakapopo — to produce compost
• Māori: whakapōpopo — to produce compost
• Norwegian: kompostere — to produce compost
• Polish: kompostować — to produce compost
• Portuguese: compostar — to produce compost
• Slovak: kompostovať — to produce compost
• Slovene: kompostirati — to produce compost
• Spanish: compostar — to produce compost
• Swedish: kompostera — to produce compost