loanword

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• Canada, US: /ˈloʊnˌwɝd/
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• UK: /ˈləʊnˌwɜː(ɹ)d/
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A calque of German Lehnwort, equivalent to loan + word. Compare West Frisian lienwurd, Dutch leenwoord, Danish låneord, Swedish lånord, Icelandic lánsorð.

116 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: leenwoord — word taken from another language
• Albanian: fjalë e huajtur — word taken from another language
• Arabic: دَخِيل (daḵīl) — word taken from another language
• Arabic: لَفْظ دَخِيل (lafẓ daḵīl) — word taken from another language
• Armenian: փոխառություն (pʻoxaṙutʻyun) — word taken from another language
• Azerbaijani: alınma söz — word taken from another language
• Azerbaijani: alınma — word taken from another language
• Belarusian: запазы́чанне (zapazýčannje) — word taken from another language
• Belarusian: запазы́чаньне (zapazýčanʹnje) — word taken from another language
• Belarusian: запазы́чанае сло́ва (zapazýčanaje slóva) — word taken from another language
• Bengali: ঋণশব্দ (rinośobdo) — word taken from another language
• Bulgarian: зае́мка (zaémka) — word taken from another language
• Bulgarian: чужди́ца (čuždíca) — word taken from another language
• Bulgarian: чу́жда ду́ма (čúžda dúma) — word taken from another language
• Catalan: manlleu — word taken from another language
• Cebuano: pulong hinulaman — word taken from another language
• Chinese Cantonese: 借詞 /借词 (ze3 ci4) — word taken from another language
• Chinese Cantonese: 外來語 /外来语 (ngoi6 loi4 jyu5) — word taken from another language
• Chinese Mandarin: 外來語 /外来语 (wàiláiyǔ) — word taken from another language
• Chinese Mandarin: 借詞 /借词 (jiècí) — word taken from another language
• Chinese Mandarin: 借用語 /借用语 (jièyòngyǔ) — word taken from another language
• Crimean Tatar: alınma söz — word taken from another language
• Czech: přejaté slovo — word taken from another language
• Danish: fremmedord — word taken from another language
• Danish: låneord — word taken from another language
• Dutch: leenwoord — word taken from another language
• Erzya: ушовал (ušoval) — word taken from another language
• Erzya: саезь вал (sajeź val) — word taken from another language
• Erzya: саевкс (sajevks) — word taken from another language
• Estonian: laensõna — word taken from another language
• Finnish: lainasana — word taken from another language
• French: emprunt — word taken from another language
• Galician: estranxeirismo — word taken from another language
• Georgian: ნასესხობა (nasesxoba) — word taken from another language
• Georgian: სესხება (sesxeba) — word taken from another language
• Georgian: ნასესხები სიტყვა (nasesxebi siṭq̇va) — word taken from another language
• German: Lehnwort — word taken from another language
• German: Fremdwort — word taken from another language
• Greek: δάνειο (dáneio) — word taken from another language
• Greenlandic: oqaasersiaq — word taken from another language
• Hebrew: מִלָּה שְׁאוּלָה (milá sh'ulá) — word taken from another language
• Hindi: आगत शब्द (āgat śabd) — word taken from another language
• Hungarian: jövevényszó — word taken from another language
• Hungarian: átvétel — word taken from another language
• Hungarian: kölcsönzés — word taken from another language
• Icelandic: tökuorð — word taken from another language
• Icelandic: lánsorð — word taken from another language
• Indonesian: kata serapan — word taken from another language
• Irish: focal iasachta — word taken from another language
• Irish: iasacht — word taken from another language
• Italian: forestierismo — word taken from another language
• Italian: prestito linguistico — word taken from another language
• Japanese: 外来語 (gairaigo) — word taken from another language
• Japanese: 借用語 (shakuyōgo) — word taken from another language
• Kazakh: кірме сөз (kırme söz) — word taken from another language
• Khmer: ពាក្យកម្ចី (piək kɑɑkɑmcəy) — word taken from another language
• Korean: 외래어 (oeraeeo) — word taken from another language
• Korean: 차용어 (chayong'eo) — word taken from another language
• Kyrgyz: өздөштүрүү (özdöştürüü) — word taken from another language
• Latvian: aizguvums — word taken from another language
• Lithuanian: skolinys — word taken from another language
• Macedonian: заемка (zaemka) — word taken from another language
• Malay: kata pinjaman — word taken from another language
• Māori: kupu whakawhiti — word taken from another language
• Māori: kupu pōriro — word taken from another language
• Māori: kupu mino — word taken from another language
• Mongolian: зээлдсэн үг (zeeldsen üg) — word taken from another language
• Mongolian: харь үг (xarʹ üg) — word taken from another language
• Norwegian Bokmål: lånord — word taken from another language
• Norwegian Bokmål: fremmedord — word taken from another language
• Norwegian Bokmål: importord — word taken from another language
• Norwegian Nynorsk: låneord — word taken from another language
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lånord — word taken from another language
• Norwegian Nynorsk: framandord — word taken from another language
• Norwegian Nynorsk: importord — word taken from another language
• Iranian Persian: دَخیل (daxil) — word taken from another language
• Iranian Persian: وامواژِه (vâm-vâže) — word taken from another language
• Iranian Persian: واژِهٔ دَخیل (vâže-ye daxil) — word taken from another language
• Iranian Persian: واژِهٔ عارِیَتی (vâže-ye âriyati) — word taken from another language
• Polish: zapożyczenie — word taken from another language
• Portuguese: estrangeirismo — word taken from another language
• Portuguese: empréstimo — word taken from another language
• Romanian: cuvânt împrumutat — word taken from another language
• Romanian: împrumut — word taken from another language
• Russian: заи́мствование (zaímstvovanije) — word taken from another language
• Russian: заи́мствованное сло́во (zaímstvovannoje slóvo) — word taken from another language
• Serbo-Croatian: посуђѐница — word taken from another language
• Serbo-Croatian: позајмљеница — word taken from another language
• Serbo-Croatian: posuđènica — word taken from another language
• Serbo-Croatian: pozajmljenica — word taken from another language
• Slovak: prevzaté slovo — word taken from another language
• Slovene: izposojenka — word taken from another language
• Slovene: prevzeta beseda — word taken from another language
• Upper Sorbian: požčonka — word taken from another language
• Spanish: préstamo lingüístico — word taken from another language
• Swedish: lånord — word taken from another language
• Swedish: låneord — word taken from another language
• Swedish: främmande ord — word taken from another language
• Tagalog: salitang hiram — word taken from another language
• Tajik: иқтибос (iqtibos) — word taken from another language
• Tatar: алынма (alınma) — word taken from another language
• Thai: คํายืม (kam-yʉʉm) — word taken from another language
• Turkish: alıntı kelime — word taken from another language
• Turkish: alıntı sözcük — word taken from another language
• Ukrainian: запози́чення (zapozýčennja) — word taken from another language
• Urdu: دَخِیلِ لَفْظ (daxīl-i lafz) — word taken from another language
• Uzbek: oʻzlashtirma — word taken from another language
• Uzbek: qarz soʻzi — word taken from another language
• Vietnamese: từ vay mượn — word taken from another language
• Vietnamese: từ du nhập — word taken from another language
• Vietnamese: từ mượn — word taken from another language
• Vietnamese: từ ngoại lai — word taken from another language
• Welsh: benthycair — word taken from another language
• Welsh: benthyciad — word taken from another language
• Yiddish: לײנװאָרט (leynvort) — word taken from another language
• Yoruba: ọ̀rọ̀-àyálò — word taken from another language