köken: Inherited from Middle French esponge, from Old French espoinge (cf. also variant espoigne), from Vulgar Latin *sponga, from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá).
aile: éponge à récurer, éponger, jeter l'éponge, passer l'éponge
köken: From Middle Dutch sponge, from Old French espoinge, from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos), a substrate word.
sponge (aquatic invertebrate of the phylum Porifera) · sponge (piece of porous material used for washing) · sponge (heavy drinker)
çekim: çoğul esponjas
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese esponsa, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin spongia, borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγῐᾱ́ (spongĭā́), from σπόγγος (spóngos) + -ιά (-iá). Doublet of espúndia and fungo.
köken: From Byzantine Greek σφουγγάρι(ν) (sphoungári(n)), from earlier σφουγγάριον (sphoungárion), from Koine Greek σπογγάριον (spongárion), diminutive of Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos).
mushroom (fungus and fruit of fungus) · sponge (material used to wash dishes or the body) · sponge (Porifera)
çekim: çoğul houby · tamlayan houby
köken: Inherited from Old Czech húba, from Proto-Slavic *gǫba. This might be related to Middle High German swamb (German Schwamm), Latin fungus and Greek σπόγγος (spóngos) or σφόγγος (sfóngos), which supposes some consonant transposition.
köken: First attested in 1828. From the verb szív (“to suck”) + -cs (noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
sponge · pumice, or other things resembling a sponge.
çekim: çoğul spongiae · tamlayan spongiae
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγῐᾱ́ (spongĭā́), from Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos). Doublet of fungus, both ultimately borrowed from the same substrate source.
köken: From Old Danish swamp, from Old East Norse svampr, from Proto-Germanic *swampaz (“sponge, fungus”), variant of *swammaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swombʰ- (“sponge, tree-fungus, swamp”).