سونگر

From Greek σφουγγάρι (sfoungári), σφογγάρι (sfongári), from Byzantine Greek σφουγγάριον (sphoungárion), σπογγάριν (spongárin), from Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos), from a Pre-Greek substrate.

سونگر • (sünger)

1. sponge
2. anything soft or porous as a sponge

• Turkish: sünger
• → Albanian: sungjer
• → Algerian Arabic: [script needed] (sungāl)
• → Armenian: սունկար (sunkar), սյունկեր (syunker), սյունգյար (syungyar); սո̈ւնգէր (süngēr), սունգ^յա̈ր (sung^yär); սիւնկէր (siwnkēr)
• → Azerbaijani: süngər
• → Bulgarian: сю́нгер (sjúnger)
• → Macedonian: сунѓер (sunǵer)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̀нђер

  Latin: sùnđer

• Eren, Hasan (1999), “sünger”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), 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