սունկար

Armenian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سونگر (sünger). Doublet of սպունգ (spung) and սունկ (sunk).

Noun

սունկար • (sunkar) (dialectal)

  1. sponge
    Synonym: սպունգ (spung)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 55:[1]
      սունկար․ ըսփօնճիայ
      sunkar; əspʻōnčiay
      սունկար (sunkar) = sponxa

Alternative forms
  • սյունկեր (syunker), սյունգյար (syungyar)
  • սո̈ւնգէր (süngēr), սունգյա̈ր (sungyär) — dialectological notation
  • սիւնկէր (siwnkēr) — traditional orthography

References
  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 243

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “սիւնկէր”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “սունկար”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “սյունկեր”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “սյունգյար”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
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