σπογγιά
πολλάκις δοκεῖ τὸ φυλάξαι τἀγαθὰ τοῦ κτήσασθαι χαλεπώτερον εἶναι → it often proves harder to keep than to win prosperity | it is often harder for men to keep the good they have, than it was to obtain it
English (LSJ)
(also σφογγιά, Ar.Ra.482,487), Ion. σπογγιή, ἡ,= σπόγγος, sponge, Ar. ll.cc., Arist.HA616a24, Aret.SD1.10; σπογγιᾶς μαλακώτερον τὸ πρόσωπον Com.Adesp.125; σπογγιᾶς ἔπαινος, said of a toper, Aeschin.2.112. (οἱ Ἀττικοὶ τὴν σπογγίαν σπογγιάν (καλοῦσι) Greg.Cor.p.148 S., cf. Suid.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 922] ἡ, wie σπόγγος, der Schwamm; Ar. Ran. 483. 488; Plut. oft u. a. Sp.; ion. auch σπ ογγίη betont, Schäf. Greg. Cor. p. 148.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ᾶς (ἡ) :
éponge.
Étymologie: σπόγγος.
Greek Monotonic
σπογγιά: ἡ, = σπόγγος, σφουγγάρι, σπόγγος, σε Αριστοφ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
σπογγιά: ἡ Arph., Arst., Aeschin., Plut. = σπόγγος.
Middle Liddell
σπογγιά, ἡ, = σπόγγος
a sponge, Ar.
Translations
sponge
Arabic: إِسْفَنْج; Hijazi Arabic: إسفنج, سِفِنج; Armenian: սպունգ; Asturian: esponxa; Basque: belaki; Belarusian: губка; Bulgarian: сюнгер; Catalan: esponja; Chinese Mandarin: 海綿, 海绵; Czech: houba, mořská houba, houbovec; Dutch: spons; Esperanto: spongo; Estonian: käsn; Finnish: sienieläin; French: éponge; Friulian: sponze, sponge; Galician: esponxa; German: Schwamm; Greek: σφουγγάρι; Ancient Greek: σπόγγος, σπογγιά, σφογγιά, σφόγγος, σπογγιή, σπογγίον, σφογγίον; Hawaiian: huʻakai; Hebrew: סְפוֹג; Hindi: स्पंज; Hungarian: szivacs; Icelandic: svampur; Ido: sponjo; Indonesian: bunga karang, spons; Italian: spugna; Japanese: 海綿; Khmer: អេប៉ុងហ្ស៍; Korean: 갯솜, 스펀지, 해면; Kurdish Northern Kurdish: îsfenc, îsfenc, sunger; Latin: spongia; Latvian: sūklis; Lithuanian: pintis, durlė; Macedonian: сунѓер; Malay: bunga karang, span; Maori: kōpūpūtai, pūngorungoru; Navajo: táłtłʼááh yilcháazhii; Norman: êponge; Norwegian: svamp; Occitan: esponga; Pashto: سپنج; Persian: اسفنج; Plautdietsch: Schwom; Polish: gąbka; Portuguese: esponja; Quechua: puqyala; Romanian: burete, spongie; Russian: губка; Saterland Frisian: Swom; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: спужва, сунђер; Roman: spužva, sunđer; Slovak: hubka; Slovene: spúžva; Spanish: esponja; Tagalog: espongha; Telugu: స్పాంజి; Thai: ฟองน้ำ; Turkish: sünger; Ukrainian: губка; Urdu: اسفنج; Venetian: sponxa, sponga; Vietnamese: bọt biển; West Frisian: spûns; Yiddish: שוואָם
