سونگر
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Greek σφουγγάρι (sfoungári), σφογγάρι (sfongári), from Byzantine Greek σφουγγάριον (sphoungárion), σπογγάριν (spongárin), from Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos).
Noun
سونگر • (sünger)
- sponge
- anything soft or porous as a sponge
Descendants
- Turkish: sünger
- → Albanian: sungjer
- → Algerian Arabic: [script needed] (sungāl)
- → Armenian: սունկար (sunkar), սյունկեր (syunker), սյունգյար (syungyar)
- → Azerbaijani: süngər
- → Bulgarian: сю́нгер (sjúnger)
- → Serbo-Croatian: сунђер (sunđer)
Further reading
- Eren, Hasan (1999), “sünger”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 379
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʿi (1912), “سونكر”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 446b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سونكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sünger”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2020-07-20
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سونكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095