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نَقْص
shortage /ˈnaqsˤ/
nounB2#3143 most common
Also: deficiency, lack, deficit
Example sentences
هُنَاكَ نَقْصٌ فِي الْمَاءِ.
There is a shortage of water.
يُعَانِي الْبَلَدُ مِنْ نَقْصٍ فِي الْغِذَاءِ.
The country suffers from a food shortage.
أَدَّى نَقْصُ النَّوْمِ إِلَى تَعَبِهِ الشَّدِيدِ.
Lack of sleep led to his severe fatigue.
يُلَاحَظُ نَقْصٌ وَاضِحٌ فِي عَدَدِ الْمُمَرِّضِينَ فِي الْمُسْتَشْفَى.
A clear shortage in the number of nurses can be seen in the hospital.
يُشَكِّلُ نَقْصُ الِاسْتِثْمَارِ فِي الْبِنْيَةِ التَّحْتِيَّةِ عَائِقًا أَمَامَ التَّنْمِيَةِ الِاقْتِصَادِيَّةِ.
The lack of investment in infrastructure is an obstacle to economic development.
لَا يُمْكِنُ تَجَاهُلُ الْآثَارِ الْمُتَرَتِّبَةِ عَلَى نَقْصِ الْفِيتَامِينَاتِ فِي النِّظَامِ الْغِذَائِيِّ لِلْأَطْفَالِ فِي الدُّوَلِ النَّامِيَةِ.
One cannot ignore the effects that follow from vitamin deficiency in the diet of children in developing countries.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | نَقْصٌ | نَقَائِصُ |
| Genitive | نَقْصٍ | نَقَائِصَ |
| Accusative | نَقْصًا | نَقَائِصَ |
| Vocative | يَا نَقْصُ | يَا نَقَائِصُ |
Word family
ناقصdeficient, incomplete, minus
نقيصةflaw, shortcoming
انتقصto diminish, detract from
تنقيصreduction, deliberate cutback
نقَصَto decrease, be lacking
Etymology
Naqṣ is the verbal noun of the Form I verb naqaṣa, yanquṣu, built on the triliteral Semitic root n-q-ṣ, meaning to decrease or fall short. The root covers both the physical sense of something growing smaller and the abstract sense of something being incomplete or missing. Classical Arabic dictionaries already use it for material loss, such as weight or measure, and for moral or personal shortcomings. Modern Arabic keeps both uses side by side, in economics and in everyday speech.
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