липса

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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlipsɐ]

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• Rhymes: -ipsɐ
• Hyphenation^(key): лип‧са

ли́пса • (lípsa) f

1. absence
2. lack, want, deficiency
3. plague, epidemic (dialectal—Strandzha, Veliko Tŭrnovo)

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “липса”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 418