lipsă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• липсэ (lipsă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Back-formation from lipsi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlip.sə/

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• Rhymes: -ipsə
• Hyphenation: lip‧să

Noun

lipsă f (plural lipsuri)

1. absence
2. lack, want, deficiency

   el are o lipsă de apă

   he is in want of water

   (literally, “he has a lack of water”)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	lipsă	lipsa		lipsuri	lipsurile
genitive-dative	lipsuri	lipsurii		lipsuri	lipsurilor
vocative	—			—

Further reading

• “lipsă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025