سونكر
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Etymology
[edit]From Greek σφουγγάρι (sfoungári), σφογγάρι (sfongári), from Byzantine Greek σφουγγάριον (sphoungárion), σπογγάριν (spongárin), from Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos), ultimately from Pre-Greek substrate.
Noun
[edit]سونگر • (sünger)
- sea sponge, any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera
- Synonym: سفنج (sifunc)
- sponge, bath sponge, a piece of porous material used for washing
- Synonym: سفنج (sifunc)
Derived terms
[edit]- سونگر آطهسی (sünger adası, “Symi”)
- سونگر طاشی (sünger taşı, “pumice”)
- سونگر گبی (sünger gibi, “spongy”)
- سونگرلنمك (süngerlenmek, “to become like a sponge”)
- سونگرلو (süngerli, “furnished with sponges”)
- قصاب سونگری (kasâb süngeri, “butcher's sponge”)
- ممه سونگری (meme süngeri, “the sebaceous gland of the nipple”)
- گل سونگری (gül süngeri, “bedeguar”)
- یاره سونگری (yara süngeri, “proud flesh”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: sünger
- → Albanian: sfungjer
- → Algerian Arabic: [script needed] (sungāl)
- → Armenian: սունկար (sunkar), սյունկեր (syunker), սյունգյար (syungyar); սո̈ւնգէր (süngēr), սունգյա̈ր (sungyär) — dialectological notation; սիւնկէր (siwnkēr) — traditional orthography
- → Azerbaijani: süngər
- → Bulgarian: сю́нгер (sjúnger)
- → Macedonian: сунѓер (sunǵer)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sünger”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4380
- Eren, Hasan (1999) “sünger”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 379
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سونكر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 280b
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “سونكر”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 446b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سونكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spongia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1587
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سونكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2716
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 25
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sünger”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سونكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095