flaw

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• Received-Pronunciation: /flɔː/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /floː/
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• General-American: /flɔ/ without the cot–caught merger
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• General-American, cot-caught-merger: /flɑ/
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• US: cot-caught Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Scotland: /flɔ/
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• rhymes with -ɔː
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• homophone: floor (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
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• /ˈflɔː/
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• CMU ARPABET: F L AO1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

From Middle English *flaugh, from Middle Dutch vlāghe or Middle Low German vlāge, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *flagā. Or, possibly of North Germanic origin, from Swedish flaga (“gust of wind”), from Old Norse flaga; all from Proto-Germanic *flagǭ (“blow, strike”). See modern Dutch vlaag (“gust of wind”).

163 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пукнатина (puknatina) — crack or breach
• Bulgarian: цепнатина (cepnatina) — crack or breach
• Chinese Mandarin: 疵 (cī) — crack or breach
• Danish: defekt — crack or breach
• Danish: fejl — crack or breach
• Danish: skønshedsfejl — crack or breach
• Dutch: barst — crack or breach
• Dutch: barstje — crack or breach
• Estonian: mõra — crack or breach
• Finnish: rako — crack or breach
• French: défaut — crack or breach
• French: fissure — crack or breach
• Galician: fenda — crack or breach
• Galician: brecha — crack or breach
• German: Sprung — crack or breach
• German: Riss — crack or breach
• German: Absplitterung — crack or breach
• German: Schaden — crack or breach
• Hungarian: repedés — crack or breach
• Italian: fessura — crack or breach
• Italian: cricca — crack or breach
• Italian: crepa — crack or breach
• Japanese: ひび (hibi) — crack or breach
• Norwegian Bokmål: feil — crack or breach
• Norwegian Bokmål: brist — crack or breach
• Norwegian Bokmål: skavank — crack or breach
• Occitan: deca — crack or breach
• Occitan: brèca — crack or breach
• Occitan: bèrca — crack or breach
• Portuguese: falha — crack or breach
• Portuguese: defeito — crack or breach
• Romanian: spărtură — crack or breach
• Romanian: fisură — crack or breach
• Romanian: încălcare — crack or breach
• Russian: тре́щина (tréščina) — crack or breach
• Russian: щель (ščelʹ) — crack or breach
• Russian: поро́к (porók) — crack or breach
• Slovak: prasklina — crack or breach
• Slovak: škára — crack or breach
• Spanish: falla — crack or breach
• Swedish: spricka — crack or breach
• Swedish: skavank — crack or breach
• Turkish: çatlak — crack or breach
• Turkish: çizik — crack or breach
• Arabic: عَيْبٌ (ʕaybun) — defect, fault
• Armenian: արատ (arat) — defect, fault
• Azerbaijani: qüsur — defect, fault
• Azerbaijani: nöqsan — defect, fault
• Azerbaijani: kəsir — defect, fault
• Azerbaijani: naqislik — defect, fault
• Bulgarian: недостатък (nedostatǎk) — defect, fault
• Bulgarian: дефект (defekt) — defect, fault
• Chinese Mandarin: 瑕疵 (xiácī) — defect, fault
• Chinese Mandarin: 毛病 (máobìng) — defect, fault
• Chinese Mandarin: 缺陷 (quēxiàn) — defect, fault
• Crimean Tatar: brak — defect, fault
• Czech: vada — defect, fault
• Danish: defekt — defect, fault
• Danish: fejl — defect, fault
• Dutch: fout — defect, fault
• Esperanto: difekto — defect, fault
• Esperanto: manko — defect, fault
• Estonian: viga — defect, fault
• Estonian: puudus — defect, fault
• Finnish: virhe — defect, fault
• Finnish: vika — defect, fault
• French: faille — defect, fault
• French: défaut — defect, fault
• Galician: eiva — defect, fault
• Galician: falla — defect, fault
• German: Makel — defect, fault
• German: Fehler — defect, fault
• German: Macke — defect, fault
• German: Schwachstelle — defect, fault
• German: Schlupfloch — defect, fault
• Ancient Greek: ψόγος (psógos) — defect, fault
• Hungarian: hiba — defect, fault
• Hungarian: hiányosság — defect, fault
• Irish: fabht — defect, fault
• Irish: locht — defect, fault
• Italian: difetto — defect, fault
• Italian: errore — defect, fault
• Italian: imperfezione — defect, fault
• Japanese: 欠点 (kekkan) — defect, fault
• Japanese: 瑕疵 (kashi) — defect, fault
• Korean: 결점 (gyeoljeom) — defect, fault
• Latin: vitium — defect, fault
• Lithuanian: trūkumas — defect, fault
• Macedonian: мана (mana) — defect, fault
• Macedonian: фалинка (falinka) — defect, fault
• Māori: tōrōkiri — defect, fault
• Middle English: chalenge — defect, fault
• Norwegian Bokmål: feil — defect, fault
• Norwegian Bokmål: brist — defect, fault
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lyte — defect, fault
• Occitan: manca — defect, fault
• Occitan: deca — defect, fault
• Occitan: sin — defect, fault
• Occitan: peca — defect, fault
• Occitan: defaut — defect, fault
• Occitan: taca — defect, fault
• Polish: wada — defect, fault
• Portuguese: falha — defect, fault
• Portuguese: defeito — defect, fault
• Portuguese: erro — defect, fault
• Romanian: cusur — defect, fault
• Romanian: defect — defect, fault
• Romanian: hibă — defect, fault
• Russian: изъя́н (izʺján) — defect, fault
• Russian: недоста́ток (nedostátok) — defect, fault
• Russian: поро́к (porók) — defect, fault
• Russian: брак (brak) — defect, fault
• Russian: дефе́кт (defékt) — defect, fault
• Serbo-Croatian: мана — defect, fault
• Serbo-Croatian: mana — defect, fault
• Slovak: vada — defect, fault
• Slovak: závada — defect, fault
• Slovak: chyba — defect, fault
• Slovene: napaka — defect, fault
• Slovene: pomanjkljivost — defect, fault
• Slovene: razpoka — defect, fault
• Spanish: imperfección — defect, fault
• Spanish: desperfecto — defect, fault
• Spanish: pega — defect, fault
• Swedish: fel — defect, fault
• Swedish: brist — defect, fault
• Tamil: குறை (kuṟai) — defect, fault
• Tamil: கோளாறு (kōḷāṟu) — defect, fault
• Thai: ข้อบกพร่อง — defect, fault
• Turkish: hata — defect, fault
• Turkish: kusur — defect, fault
• Ottoman Turkish: ردت (reddet) — defect, fault
• Ukrainian: вада (vada) — defect, fault
• Dutch: onzuiverheid — defect in a gemstone
• Dutch: kristalfout — defect in a gemstone
• French: crapaud — defect in a gemstone
• German: Makel — defect in a gemstone
• Italian: imperfezione — defect in a gemstone
• Italian: difetto — defect in a gemstone
• Spanish: defecto — defect in a gemstone
• Bulgarian: шквал (škval) — burst of wind
• French: bourrasque — burst of wind
• German: Windbö — burst of wind
• German: Windstoß — burst of wind
• German: Bö — burst of wind
• Russian: шквал (škval) — burst of wind
• Russian: поры́в ве́тра (porýv vétra) — burst of wind
• French: tumulte — burst of noise
• Bulgarian: пуквам (pukvam) — to add a flaw to
• Bulgarian: разцепвам (razcepvam) — to add a flaw to
• German: beschädigen — to add a flaw to
• German: verschlechtern — to add a flaw to
• Hungarian: elront — to add a flaw to
• Russian: по́ртить (pórtitʹ) — to add a flaw to
• Russian: испо́ртить (ispórtitʹ) — to add a flaw to
• Russian: поврежда́ть (povreždátʹ) — to add a flaw to
• Russian: повреди́ть (povredítʹ) — to add a flaw to
• Bulgarian: повреждам се (povreždam se) — to become imperfect
• German: Schaden nehmen — to become imperfect
• German: sich verschlechtern — to become imperfect
• Hungarian: elromlik — to become imperfect
• Russian: поврежда́ться (povreždátʹsja) — to become imperfect
• Russian: повреди́ться (povredítʹsja) — to become imperfect