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
• Syllabification^(key): лип‧са

ли́пса • (lípsa) f

1. absence
2. lack, want, deficiency
3. (Balkan dialects) plague, epidemic

• “липса”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “липса”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• 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