From en.wiktionary.org:
[Lack]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en], [gem-pro], from
[en], related to [gem-pro], from [en]. Cognate with [stq], [gml], [gml],
[nl], [is]. Related also to [dum].
Eclipsed non-native [enm], from [fro].
**** Noun
[~]
1. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence , want , dearth.
2. * [IV]
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=September 7, 2012 | author=Phil McNulty | work=BBC Sport
|title=Moldova 0-5 England (see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19460608) |passage=If Moldova harboured
even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on
miraculous given their LACK of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes
before the break when [Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain] picked his way through
midfield before releasing [Jermain Defoe] for a finish that should have been
dealt with more convincingly by [Stanislav Namașco] at his near post.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] A defect or failing ; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
3. * [chapter=1]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[deficiency, need]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [need]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] ,
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza] , [zza] , [zza]
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*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [ofs], [ofs], [gml], [gml], [dum], [nl].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To be without , not to have, to need, to require .
2. * [en]
3. [en] To be short ( _of_ or _for_ something).
4. * [I]
5. [en] To be in want .
6. * [Psalms]
7. [en] To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign , reproach .
8. * [II]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|alack|lackbrain|lackland|lacklustre|lackstock
|lack-all|lack-grace|lack-latin|lack-laughter|lack-learning|lack-life|lack-linen|lack-looks|lack-love|lack-mind|lack-pity|lackwit}}
***** Related terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[be without, need, require]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: ( _archaic_ ) [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl] [aan]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faliscan: [xfa]
- Finnish: [fi] [to be missing; English subject in the ablative or elative case] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [transitive, dated] [de]
- Greek:
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] [intransitive] , [ja] [transitive]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [be short]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] ( _need_ )
- Sidamo: [sid]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yup'ik: [noun-to-verb postbase meaning "to lack N."] [esu]
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*** Etymology 3
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .
*** Further reading
- [lak(k)on-]
*** See also
- good lack
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** German
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
*** Verb
[de]
1. [de]
2. [de] [de]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv], from [sv].
*** Noun
[n]
1. varnish , lacquer
2. * [sv]
**** Declension
[2=lacke]
**** Derived terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
- [sv]
**** Related terms
- [sv]
*** Adjective
[peri]
1. [sv] angry
*** See also
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]