a male given name, widely used in Islamic West Africa
çekim: çoğul amadous
köken: A French spelling of a name ultimately derived from Arabic أَحْمَدُ (ʔaḥmadu), i.e. Ahmad. Native spellings include Wolof and Pulaar Aamadu etc.
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).
amadou, most commonly prepared from hoof fungus (Fomes fomentarius), primarily used as tinder or as a styptic · tinder, touchwood, material for lighting a fire (more generally)
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”).