loan

== 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. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== 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 Syllabification(key): lo‧an 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 (Chinese mythology) hen-phoenix ===== Derived terms ===== loan phượng === Etymology 2 === Sino-Vietnamese word from 關. This morpheme reflects of a dialectal Middle Chinese pronunciation of 關 which had initial *l- and descended from *k.rˤ-, instead of from *kˤr- like 關 (MC kwaen), whence quan. 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 1867, “OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR“, page 14: === 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