FromMiddle English los Old English los ( “ damage, destruction, loss ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *los Proto-Germanic *lusą ( “ dissolution, break-up, loss ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *lews- ( “ to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose ” ) .
Cognate withIcelandic los ( “ dissolution, looseness, break-up ” ) ,Old English lor forlor ( “ loss, ruin ” ) ,Middle High German verlor ( “ loss, ruin ” ) . More atlose
loss (countable anduncountable plural losses
( countable ) external causes ormisplacement .Synonym: expense Antonym: gain loss of limb; weightloss ;loss of cognitive functions;loss of appetite.
In other areas, glacierloss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said. ( uncountable ) destruction orruin of an object.( countable ) It was a terrible crash; both cars were totallosses .
( countable ) Defeat ; an instance of beingdefeated .Antonyms: win victory The match ended in their firstloss of the season.
( countable ) death of a person or animal.We mourn hisloss .
The battle was won, butlosses were great.
( uncountable ) condition ofgrief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who hasdied .Her daughter's sense ofloss eventually led to depression.
( financial, countable ) sum an entity loses on balance.Antonym: profit The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is aloss , when this difference is positive.
( engineering ) power expended without doing useful work.The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60%loss before the subsequentlosses during transport over the grid.
the result of no longer possessing something
Albanian:humbje (sq) ,bjerrje Arabic:خَسَارَة f ( ḵasāra ) ,فِقْدَان m ( fiqdān ) Egyptian Arabic:خسارة f ( ḵusāra ) Hijazi Arabic:خَسارة f ( ḵasāra ) Belarusian:стра́та f ( stráta ) ,утра́так m ( utrátak ) ,згу́ба f ( zhúba ) Bulgarian:за́губа (bg) f ( záguba ) Catalan:pèrdua (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:損失 / 损失 (zh) ( sǔnshī ) Czech:ztráta (cs) f Egyptian: (nhw Esperanto:perdo Estonian:kaotus Finnish:menetys (fi) ,väheneminen (fi) ,tappio (fi) ,hävikki (fi) ,häviö (fi) French:perte (fr) f Galician:perda (gl) f Georgian:დანაკარგი ( danaḳargi ) ,დანაკლისი ( danaḳlisi ) German:Verlust (de) m Hindi:हानि (hi) f ( hāni ) Italian:perdita (it) f Japanese:損失 (ja) ( そんしつ, sonshitsu ) Korean:손실 (ko) ( sonsil ) Macedonian:загуба f ( zaguba ) Malayalam:നഷ്ടം (ml) ( naṣṭaṁ ) Occitan:perda f Ottoman Turkish:ضرر ( zarar ) ,زیان ( ziyan ) Persian:خسارت (fa) ( xesârat ) Polish:utrata (pl) f strata (pl) f Portuguese:perda (pt) f Romanian:pierdere (ro) f Russian:поте́ря (ru) f ( potérja ) ,уте́ря (ru) f ( utérja ) ,утра́та (ru) f ( utráta ) ,пропа́жа (ru) f ( propáža ) Scottish Gaelic:call m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:губи́так m Roman:gubítak (sh) m Slovak:strata f Slovene:izguba (sl) f Spanish:pérdida (es) f Tajik:хисорат ( xisorat ) Tamil:இழப்பு (ta) ( iḻappu ) Ukrainian:втра́та f ( vtráta ) ,утра́та f ( utráta ) ( alternative form ) Uzbek:yitim (uz) Vietnamese:sự mất (vi) Yiddish:אַבֿדה f ( aveyde )
destruction or ruin of an object
Albanian:humbje (sq) ,mundje (sq) Arabic:(pleaseverify ) خَسَارَة f ( ḵasāra ) Hijazi Arabic:خَسَارة ( ḵasāra ) ,هزيمة f ( hazīma ) Armenian:պարտություն (hy) ( partutʻyun ) Belarusian:про́йгрыш m ( prójhryš ) ( in a game ) ,паражэ́нне n ( paražénnje ) Bulgarian:(pleaseverify ) за́губа (bg) ( záguba ) Catalan:derrota (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:(pleaseverify ) 滅失 / 灭失 (zh) ( mièshī ) Czech:(pleaseverify ) prohra (cs) f Danish:forlis n Dutch:(pleaseverify ) verlies (nl) n nederlaag (nl) ,verliezen (nl) n Estonian:kaotus Finnish:tappio (fi) ,häviö (fi) French:défaite (fr) f Galician:derrota (gl) f perda (gl) f German:( in a game or war ) Niederlage (de) f Greek:Ancient Greek:(pleaseverify ) ἧσσα f ( hêssa ) Hindi:हार (hi) f ( hār ) ,पराजय (hi) f ( parājay ) Japanese:負け (ja) ( まけ, make ) ,敗北 (ja) ( はいぼく, haiboku ) Korean:짐 (ko) ( jim ) ,패배(敗北) (ko) ( paebae ) Malay:(pleaseverify ) kekalahan (ms) Persian:(pleaseverify ) باخت (fa) ( bâxt ) Polish:( in a game ) przegrana (pl) f porażka (pl) f Portuguese:(pleaseverify ) perda (pt) f Russian:( in a game ) про́игрыш (ru) m ( próigryš ) ,( in a game or war ) пораже́ние (ru) n ( poražénije ) Scottish Gaelic:call m Spanish:derrota (es) Swahili:(pleaseverify ) hasara (sw) Swedish:(pleaseverify ) förlust (sv) c Telugu:(pleaseverify ) ఓటమి (te) ( ōṭami ) పరాజయం (te) ( parājayaṁ ) Thai:(pleaseverify ) ความสูญหาย ( kwaam-sǔun-hǎai ) Ukrainian:( in a game ) про́граш ( próhraš ) ,( in a battle ) пора́зка ( porázka ) Uzbek:yutqizish (uz) Vietnamese:(pleaseverify ) mất (vi)
the death of a person or animal
Arabic:خَسَارَة f ( ḵasāra ) Belarusian:стра́та f ( stráta ) ,згу́ба f ( zhúba ) Bulgarian:за́губа (bg) f ( záguba ) Chinese:Mandarin:損失 / 损失 (zh) ( sǔnshī ) Czech:ztráta (cs) f Estonian:kaotus Finnish:lähtö (fi) ( of a single person, animal, etc. ) ,poistuminen (fi) ( of a single person, animal, etc. ) ,kuolonuhrit pl ( "losses" ) French:perte (fr) f Galician:perda (gl) f German:Verlust (de) m Hindi:हानि (hi) f ( hāni ) ,क्षति (hi) f ( kṣati ) Italian:morte (it) f Japanese:損失 (ja) ( そんしつ, sonjitsu ) Korean:손실(損失) (ko) ( sonsil ) Macedonian:загуба f ( zaguba ) Malayalam:വിയോഗം (ml) ( viyōgaṁ ) Polish:strata (pl) f Russian:поте́ря (ru) f ( potérja ) ,утра́та (ru) f ( utráta ) Scottish Gaelic:call m Slovak:strata f Tamil:இழவு (ta) ( iḻavu ) ,இழப்பு (ta) ( iḻappu ) Ukrainian:втра́та f ( vtráta ) ,згу́ба f ( zhúba ) ,стра́та f ( stráta )
grief caused by losing someone or something
financial: the sum lost on balance
engineering: power expended without doing useful work
Translations to be checked
Pronunciation spelling oflost , representingAfrican-American Vernacular English .
loss
( colloquial ) Alternative spelling oflost .Borrowed fromGerman Schloss Middle High German slōz Old High German sloz
IPA (key ) : /ˈlosʲː/ ,[ˈlosʲː] Hyphenation:loss loss (genitive lossi partitive lossi
castle “loss [ PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastikDictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary 2014 “loss [ EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamatDescriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language 2009 “loss [ÕS]Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary 2018 ,→ISBN loss inSõnaveeb loss
imperative oflosse FromLow German los ( “ free, loose ” ) , fromMiddle Low German lōs Old Saxon lōs Proto-West Germanic *laus
See alsoDanish los Norwegian loss Dutch loos Doublet oflös
loss notcomparable )
to a no longer attached or stuck state (no longer stuck to something, generally);loose ,off ,untied Han drog i den, och till slut kom denloss He pulled on it, and finally it cameloose Han sparkadeloss grenen He kicked the branchoff Jag är fast i kvicksand ochkommer inte loss I'm stuck in quicksand andcan't get out (get unstuck) Deknöt loss båten Theyuntied the boat (from the pier) 
