English Online Dictionary. What means loan? What does loan mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ləʊn/
- (US) IPA(key): /loʊn/
- Rhymes: -əʊn
- Homophone: lone
Etymology 1
From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave (over)”).
Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English lǣn. More at lend.
Noun
loan (plural loans)
- (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
- Synonyms: loaning, lending
- (law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).
- Synonym: principal
- The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
- The permission to borrow any item.
Hypernyms
- (something borrowed): bailment
Hyponyms
- (something borrowed): mutuum, commodatum
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)
- (usually ditransitive, US, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
Usage notes
- This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof). The use of loan as a verb is occasionally disapproved of, especially when the object being lent is something other than money; as a consequence, lend is often preferred.
Translations
Further reading
- loan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Scottish Gaelic lòn (“marshy meadow”) (compare lèana (“wet meadow, marsh, meadow”)).
Noun
loan (plural loans)
- (Scotland, Northern England) An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.
- the Loan of Turchloy, the Black Loan
References
- Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “LOAN”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- Laon, lona, nola, Anlo, NOLA, Alon, Nola
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈloɑn/, [ˈlo̞ɑ̝n]
- Rhymes: -oɑn
- Hyphenation(key): lo‧an
Noun
loan
- genitive singular of loka
Anagrams
- laon, olan
Galician
Verb
loan
- third-person plural present indicative of loar
Spanish
Verb
loan
- third-person plural present indicative of loar
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lwaːn˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [lwaːŋ˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [l⁽ʷ⁾aːŋ˧˧]
Etymology 1
Sino-Vietnamese word from 鸞.
Noun
(classifier con) loan
- hen-phoenix
Etymology 2
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 關 (SV: quan).
This morpheme reflects of a form of 關 (MC kwaen) descended from *k.rˤ- instead of *kˤr-.
Nohara (2023) is an in-depth treatment into the lexeme "egg" in Old Chinese, presenting etymologically related pairs such as 卵 (MC lwanX, “egg”) (lateral onset, from *k.rˤ-) and 𢺄 (“fish egg”) (velar onset, from *kˤr-) as evidence for complex onsets/consonant clusters in Old Chinese.
Verb
loan
- (of news, chiefly in compounds) to spread
Derived terms
References
Yola
Noun
loan
- Alternative form of lhoan
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 14