липса
/[ˈlipsɐ]/
Bulgariannoun
Definitions
- 1.absence
- 2.lack, want, deficiency
- 3.plague, epidemic (dialectal—Strandzha, Veliko Tŭrnovo)
Etymology
Verbal noun of Bulgarian ли́псвам (lípsvam, “to lack, to be absent”), from the sigmatic aorist ἔλειψα (éleipsa) or future λείψω (leípsō) of Byzantine Greek λείπω (leípō, “to lack, to be absent”).
Forms
- ли́псаcanonical • feminine
- lípsaromanization
- ли́псаindefinite • singular
- ли́псиindefinite • plural
- ли́псатаdefinite • singular
- ли́пситеdefinite • plural