سونگرلنمك
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From سونگر (sünger, “sponge”) + ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).
Verb
[edit]سونگرلنمك • (süngerlenmek)
- to become a sponge or like a sponge
- to become possessed of sponges
- to become coated with growing sponges
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: süngerlenmek
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “süngerlenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4381
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سونگرلنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095