loan

loan

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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)

  1. (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
    Synonyms: loaning, lending
  2. (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
  3. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
  4. 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)

  1. (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

See lawn.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

  1. (Scotland) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A lonnen.

Anagrams

  • Anlo, NOLA, Nola, lona, nola

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈloɑn/, [ˈlo̞ɑ̝n]
  • Rhymes: -oɑn
  • Syllabification(key): lo‧an

Noun

loan

  1. genitive singular of loka

Anagrams

  • laon, olan

Galician

Verb

loan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of loar

Spanish

Verb

loan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of loar

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lwaːn˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [lwaːŋ˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [l⁽ʷ⁾aːŋ˧˧]

Noun

(classifier con) loan

  1. hen-phoenix

Yola

Noun

loan

  1. Alternative form of lhoan

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 14

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