乏しい

とぼしい ともしい

meagre, meager, scarce, limited, destitute, hard up, lacking, scanty, poor

欠乏

けつぼう

want, shortage, famine

貧乏

びんぼう

poverty, destitute, poor

窮乏

きゅうぼう

poverty, destitution, privation, indigence, penury

耐乏

たいぼう

austerity, voluntary privation

乏尿

ぼうにょう

oliguria

貧乏暮らし

びんぼうぐらし

needy circumstances, living in poverty

貧乏暇なし

びんぼうひまなし

there is no leisure for the poor

乏しくなる

とぼしくなる

to get scarce, to run short

乏毛症

とぼしけしょう

hypotrichosis

乏尿[症]

とぼしにょう[しょう]

oliguria

貧乏人

びんぼうにん

poor person, pauper, the poor, the indigent

貧乏神

びんぼうがみ

god of poverty

貧乏性

びんぼうしょう

destined to poverty, parsimonious spirit, tendency to be frugal, poor person's mentality (e.g. inability to relax)

欠乏症

けつぼうしょう

deficiency disease (e.g. protein, vitamin, etc.)

空乏層

くうぼうそう

depletion layer (of transistor)

貧乏舌

びんぼうじた

being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate

貧乏パーマ

びんぼうパーマ

curly hairstyle created by braiding (rather than perming)

引っ越し貧乏

ひっこしびんぼう

poverty caused by the high costs of (repetitive) moving