# سونكر
## Ottoman Turkish
### 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))
* 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

* 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$^յ$ա̈ր (sung$^y$är) — 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095