Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: spons
- Amharic: በይፋ
- Arabic: سبونج
- Azerbaijani: sponge
- Bashkir: губка
- Belarusian: губка
- Bulgarian: гъба
- Bengali: স্পঞ্জ
- Bosnian: sunđer
- Catalan: pa de pessic
- Cebuano: espongha
- Czech: houba
- Welsh: sbwng
- Danish: svamp
- German: Schwamm
- Greek: σφουγγάρι
- Esperanto: spongo
- Spanish: esponja
- Estonian: sponge
- Basque: belakia
- Persian: اسفنج
- Finnish: sieni
- French: éponge
- Irish: spúinse
- Scottish Gaelic: sponge
- Galician: sponge
- Gujarati: સ્પોન્જ
- Hebrew: ספוג
- Hindi: स्पंज
- Croatian: spužva
- Haitian: enyen ak yon eponj
- Hungarian: szivacs
- Armenian: սպունգ
- Indonesian: spons
- Icelandic: svampur
- Italian: spugna
- Japanese: スポンジ
- Javanese: karang
- Georgian: sponge
- Kazakh: губка
- Khmer: អេប៉ុង
- Kannada: ಸ್ಪಾಂಜ್
- Korean: 스펀지
- Kyrgyz: губка
- Latin: spongia
- Luxembourgish: Schwamm
- Lao: sponge
- Lithuanian: kempinė
- Latvian: sūklis
- Malagasy: sponjy
- Mari: губком
- Maori: hautai
- Macedonian: сунѓерот
- Malayalam: സ്പോഞ്ച്
- Mongolian: хөвөн
- Marathi: स्पंज
- Hill Mari: губкавлӓ
- Malay: span
- Maltese: sponża
- Burmese: ရေမြှုပ်
- Nepali: स्पन्जले
- Dutch: spons
- Norwegian: svamp
- Punjabi: ਸਪੰਜ
- Papiamento: spòns
- Polish: gąbka
- Portuguese: esponja
- Romanian: burete
- Russian: губка
- Sinhalese: ස්පොන්ජ්
- Slovak: huba
- Slovenian: goba
- Albanian: sponge
- Serbian: сунђер
- Sundanese: bolu
- Swedish: svamp
- Swahili: sponge
- Tamil: கடற்பாசி
- Telugu: స్పంజిక
- Tajik: губка
- Thai: ฟองน้ำ
- Tagalog: punasan ng espongha
- Turkish: Sünger
- Tatar: губка
- Udmurt: губка
- Ukrainian: губка
- Urdu: سپنج
- Uzbek: shimgichni
- Vietnamese: xốp
- Xhosa: sponge
- Yiddish: שוואָם
- Chinese: 海绵
Synonyms, close and similar words for sponge
- biscuit
- loofah
- bath sponge
- lip
- powder puff
- swab
- tampon
- soak
- absorb
- imbibe
- parasite
- mooch
- freeloader