σφουγγάρι
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Byzantine Greek σφουγγάρι(ν) (sphoungári(n)), from earlier σφουγγάριον (sphoungárion), from Koine Greek σπογγάριον (spongárion), diminutive of Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]σφουγγάρι • (sfoungári) n (plural σφουγγάρια)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | σφουγγάρι (sfoungári) | σφουγγάρια (sfoungária) |
genitive | σφουγγαριού (sfoungarioú) | σφουγγαριών (sfoungarión) |
accusative | σφουγγάρι (sfoungári) | σφουγγάρια (sfoungária) |
vocative | σφουγγάρι (sfoungári) | σφουγγάρια (sfoungária) |
Related terms
[edit]- ασφουγγάριστος (asfoungáristos, “not mopped up”, adjective)
- ασφούγγιστος (asfoúngistos, “not wiped”, adjective)
- σφουγγαρίζω (sfoungarízo, “to mop, mop up”)
- σφουγγίζω (sfoungízo, “to wipe”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: sfungar
- → Ottoman Turkish: سونگر (sünger)
- 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]- Σπόγγος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- σφουγγάρι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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