سونكر

Ottoman Turkish

سونكر

Etymology

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

Noun

سونكر • (sünger) (definite accusative سونكری (süngeri), plural سونكرلر (süngerler))

1. sea sponge, any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera

   Synonym: سفنج (sifunc)

2. sponge, bath sponge, a piece of porous material used for washing

   Synonym: سفنج (sifunc)

Derived terms

• سونكر آطه‌سی (sünger adası, “Symi”)
• سونكر ایله سیلمك (sünger ile silmek, “to sponge”)
• سونكر طاشی (sünger taşı, “pumice”)
• سونكر كبی (sünger gibi, “spongy”)
• سونكرلنمك (süngerlenmek, “to become like a sponge”)
• سونكرلو (süngerli, “furnished with sponges”)
• قصاب سونكری (kasâb süngeri, “butcher's sponge”)
• كل سونكری (gül süngeri, “bedeguar”)
• ممه سونكری (meme süngeri, “the sebaceous gland of the nipple”)
• چوقه سونكری (çoka süngeri, çuka süngeri, “drape tampoon”)
• یاره سونكری (yara süngeri, “proud flesh”)

Descendants

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

  Cyrillic script: су̀нђер

  Latin script: sùnđer

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “سونكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 116
• 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