# loss
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West Germanic *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”).
Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /lɒs/
* (General American) IPA: /lɔs/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /lɑs/
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* Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs

#### Noun

loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)
* (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
    Antonym: gain
    loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.
    In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.
* (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
* (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
    It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.
* (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
    Antonyms: win, victory
    The match ended in their first loss of the season.
* (countable) The death of a person or animal.
    We mourn his loss.
    The battle was won, but losses were great.
* (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
    Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.
* (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
    Antonym: profit
    The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
* (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
    The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.

##### Usage notes

* The possessive of loss is often constructed as loss of rather than 's loss.
* loss is often the subject of the verbs make or take. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

##### Derived terms

* at a loss
* at a loss for words
* blood loss, bloodloss
* bone loss
* capital loss
* core loss
* dead loss
* deadweight loss
* for a loss
* for the loss
* generation loss
* habitat loss
* hair loss
* head loss
* hearing loss
* hull-loss accident
* instant loss 2koma
* loss and damage
* loss and gain are brothers twain
* loss condition
* loss function
* loss leader
* lossmaker, loss-maker
* loss-making
* loss of consortium
* loss of face
* loss of life
* loss of supply
* loss prevention
* loss ratio
* net loss
* net operating loss
* one man's loss is another man's gain
* operating loss
* path loss
* pregnancy loss
* profit and loss
* stop loss
* stop-loss
* stop-loss order
* stop loss order
* tackle for loss
* total loss
* wake loss
* weight loss
* without loss of generality

##### Related terms

* lose

##### Translations

Albanian : Humbje (sq)
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
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)
Ukrainian: втра́та f (vtráta), утра́та f (utráta) (alternative form)
Uzbek: yitim (uz)
Vietnamese: sự mất (vi)
Yiddish: אַבֿדה f (aveyde) :
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### Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.

#### Verb

loss
* (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost

### Anagrams

* SOLs, Sols, sols

## Estonian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Schloss, from Middle High German slōz, from Old High German sloz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlosʲː/, [ˈlosʲː]
* Hyphenation: loss

### Noun

loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)
* castle

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “loss”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
* “loss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “loss”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* loss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

loss
* imperative of losse

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Low German los (“free, loose”), from Middle Low German lōs, from Old Saxon lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *laus.
See also Danish los and Norwegian loss, Dutch loos. Doublet of lös.

### Adverb

loss (not comparable)
* 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 den lossHe pulled on it, and finally it came loose
    Han sparkade loss grenenHe kicked the branch off
    Jag är fast i kvicksand och kommer inte lossI'm stuck in quicksand and can't get out (get unstuck)
    De knöt loss båtenThey untied the boat (from the pier)

#### Derived terms

* kasta loss

#### Related terms

* lossa
* lossna
* lossning

### References

* loss in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* loss in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* loss in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* sols