Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

deficiency

/dɪˈfɪʃənsi/ noun

Forms deficiencies

noun (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
noun (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
noun (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
noun (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

Synonyms

From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.

Etymology [See Deficient.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “deficiency”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “deficiency” (best matches first).

परिहाणि pari-hāṇi decrease, loss, deficiency.
प्रहाणि pra-hāṇi relinquishing, abandoning; want, deficiency.
कव kava a form substituted for ka, kā, and 1. ku, to express deterioration or deficiency.
हानि hāni abandonment, relinquishment, neglect, loss, want, privation, absence; decrease, deficiency, diminution, detr…
वैकल्य vaikalya imperfection, incompleteness, impairedness, deficiency, defect, mutilation, a defective or imperfect state o…
अपकर्ष apa-karṣa drawing or dragging off or down, detraction, deficiency, diminution, decay; lowering, deterioration, depress…
भित्ति bhitti breaking, splitting, tearing, dividing; a wall of earth or masonry, a partition; a mat (made of split reeds)…
किम् kim is much used as a particle of interrogation like the Latin num, an, sometimes translateable by ‘whether?’ bu…