lack

(Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

Verb

1. (stative, transitive) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
4. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
5. To be off one's guard.

Berevajî

glut, surplus, plethora

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/læk/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: lack

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: *læc

Hevwate bi Saterfriesisch: Lak

Hevwate bi Middle Low German: lack

Hevwate bi holendî: lak

Hevwate bi îzlendî: lakur

Hevwate bi Middle Dutch: laken

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: lacken

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: læccian

Hevwate bi Old Frisian: lakia

Hevwate bi Middle Low German: lacken

Hevwate bi holendî: laken

In summary

From Middle English lack, lakke, lak, from Old English *læc (“deficiency, lack, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *lak, from Proto-Germanic *laką, *lakaz (“slackness”), from Proto-Germanic *lakaz (“limp, slack, loose, low”), related to *lak(k)ōną (“to blame, reproach”), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh₂-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lak (“lack”), Middle Low German lack, lak (“lack”), Dutch lak (“lack, deficiency, calumny”), Icelandic lakur (“lacking”). Related also to Middle Dutch laken (“to blame, lack”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English carence (“absence, lack”), from Old French carence.

Hevwate

shortage

deficiency

want

absence

scarcity

need

shortcoming

dearth

miss

deficit

defect

insufficiency

short of

flaw

poverty

be short of

privation

inadequacy

be missing

be short

shortfall

not have

gap

be absent

require

vacancy

without

scantiness

deprivation

failure

lack of

fail

be deficient

be in need of

be lacking

shortness

indigence

destitution

absent

I don’t have

requirement

paucity

omission

missing

scantness

few

🤏

fault

famine

failing

default

Hevok

The lack of more than two shutter speeds was not a problem .

Nebûna bêtir ji du leza bilez ne pirsgirêk bû.