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: Borrowed from Lunfardo cafisho, of disputed origin. Maybe from the Italian stoccafisso (“catfish, lanky”), or catfish, a slang term they used to refer to cargoes from the trade; compare the Spanish equivalent macarra, of analogous origin
parasite (organism) · parasite (person) · bad person
çekim: çoğul парази́ты · tamlayan парази́та
eş: чужеяд, чужеядное, трутень, тунеядец, чужеяд
zıt: хозя́ин
köken: Borrowed from French parasite. Further from Latin parasītus, from Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos), from παρά (pará) + σῖτος (sîtos). Compare typologically нахле́бник (naxlébnik) (< хлеб (xleb)). Compare natively formed Czech cizopasník, i.e. **чужепасник (akin to чужо́й (čužój) and пасти́ (pastí)), Slovene zajedavec, i.e. **заедавец, **заедалец (akin to заеда́ть (zajedátʹ), also note…
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”).