flaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”).
Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).
Inflected forms:
form: flaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flawed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flake, fragment, or shiver.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A thin cake, as of ice.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
pos: noun
examples: There is a flaw in that knife.
That vase has a flaw.
This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws.
gloss: A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
pos: noun
examples: Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
gloss: A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
pos: noun
gloss: A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
pos: noun
examples: a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
gloss: To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: design flaw
flawful
flawless
flawsome
flawy
Persian flaw
tragic flaw
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَيْبٌ
roman: ʕaybun
lang: Armenian
word: արատ
roman: arat
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qüsur
lang: Azerbaijani
word: nöqsan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kəsir
lang: Azerbaijani
word: naqislik
lang: Bulgarian
word: недостатък
roman: nedostatǎk
lang: Bulgarian
word: дефект
roman: defekt
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瑕疵
roman: xiácī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 毛病
roman: máobìng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 缺陷
roman: quēxiàn
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: brak
lang: Czech
word: vada
lang: Danish
word: defekt
lang: Danish
word: fejl
lang: Dutch
word: fout
lang: Esperanto
word: difekto
lang: Esperanto
word: manko
lang: Estonian
word: viga
lang: Estonian
word: puudus
lang: Finnish
word: virhe
lang: Finnish
word: vika
lang: French
word: faille
lang: French
word: défaut
lang: Galician
word: eiva
lang: Galician
word: falla
lang: German
word: Makel
lang: German
word: Fehler
lang: German
word: Macke
lang: German
word: Schwachstelle
lang: German
word: Schlupfloch
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ψόγος
roman: psógos
lang: Hungarian
word: hiba
lang: Hungarian
word: hiányosság
lang: Irish
word: fabht
lang: Irish
word: locht
lang: Italian
word: difetto
lang: Italian
word: errore
lang: Italian
word: imperfezione
lang: Japanese
word: 欠点
roman: kekkan
lang: Japanese
word: 瑕疵
roman: kashi
lang: Korean
word: 결점
roman: gyeoljeom
lang: Latin
word: vitium
lang: Lithuanian
word: trūkumas
lang: Macedonian
word: мана
roman: mana
lang: Macedonian
word: фалинка
roman: falinka
lang: Māori
word: tōrōkiri
lang: Middle English
word: chalenge
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: feil
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: brist
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lyte
lang: Occitan
word: manca
lang: Occitan
word: deca
lang: Occitan
word: sin
lang: Occitan
word: peca
lang: Occitan
word: defaut
lang: Occitan
word: taca
lang: Polish
word: wada
lang: Portuguese
word: falha
lang: Portuguese
word: defeito
lang: Portuguese
word: erro
lang: Romanian
word: cusur
lang: Romanian
word: defect
lang: Romanian
word: hibă
lang: Russian
word: изъя́н
roman: izʺján
lang: Russian
word: недоста́ток
roman: nedostátok
lang: Russian
word: поро́к
roman: porók
lang: Russian
word: брак
roman: brak
lang: Russian
word: дефе́кт
roman: defékt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мана
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mana
lang: Slovak
word: vada
lang: Slovak
word: závada
lang: Slovak
word: chyba
lang: Slovene
word: napaka
lang: Slovene
word: pomanjkljivost
lang: Slovene
word: razpoka
lang: Spanish
word: imperfección
lang: Spanish
word: desperfecto
lang: Spanish
word: pega
lang: Swedish
word: fel
lang: Swedish
word: brist
lang: Tamil
word: குறை
roman: kuṟai
lang: Tamil
word: கோளாறு
roman: kōḷāṟu
lang: Thai
word: ข้อบกพร่อง
lang: Turkish
word: hata
lang: Turkish
word: kusur
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ردت
roman: reddet
lang: Ukrainian
word: вада
roman: vada