Loanword

//ˈloʊnˌwɝd//

Synonyms for "loanword" (7 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)
borrowing

Strong matches (2)

Noun(1 words)
foreign word

Related words (3)

Noun(2 words)
gainwordloan

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

1 entries

More specific

1 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

Synonyms

3 entries

Related terms

8 entries

coordinate

1 entries

derived

2 entries

is a

1 entries

related to

6 entries

Translations

116 translations across 68 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • leenwoord noun (word taken from another language)

Albanian

1 entries
  • fjalë e huazuar noun (word taken from another language)

Arabic

2 entries
  • دَخِيل noun (word taken from another language)
  • لَفْظ دَخِيل noun (word taken from another language)

Armenian

1 entries
  • փոխառություն noun (word taken from another language)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • alınma noun (word taken from another language)
  • alınma söz noun (word taken from another language)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • запазы́чанае сло́ва noun (word taken from another language)
  • запазы́чанне noun (word taken from another language)
  • запазы́чаньне noun (word taken from another language)

Bengali

1 entries
  • ঋণশব্দ noun (word taken from another language)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • зае́мка noun (word taken from another language)
  • чу́жда ду́ма noun (word taken from another language)
  • чужди́ца noun (word taken from another language)

Catalan

1 entries
  • manlleu noun (word taken from another language)

Cebuano

1 entries
  • pulong hinulaman noun (word taken from another language)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries
  • 借詞 /借词 noun (word taken from another language)
  • 外來語 /外来语 noun (word taken from another language)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 借用語 /借用语 noun (word taken from another language)
  • 借詞 /借词 noun (word taken from another language)
  • 外來語 /外来语 noun (word taken from another language)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries
  • alınma söz noun (word taken from another language)

Czech

1 entries
  • přejaté slovo noun (word taken from another language)

Danish

2 entries
  • fremmedord noun (word taken from another language)
  • låneord noun (word taken from another language)

Dutch

1 entries
  • leenwoord noun (word taken from another language)

Erzya

3 entries
  • саевкс noun (word taken from another language)
  • саезь вал noun (word taken from another language)
  • ушовал noun (word taken from another language)

Estonian

1 entries
  • laensõna noun (word taken from another language)

Finnish

1 entries
  • lainasana noun (word taken from another language)

French

1 entries
  • emprunt noun (word taken from another language)

Galician

1 entries
  • estranxeirismo noun (word taken from another language)

Georgian

3 entries
  • ნასესხები სიტყვა noun (word taken from another language)
  • ნასესხობა noun (word taken from another language)
  • სესხება noun (word taken from another language)

German

2 entries
  • Fremdwort noun (word taken from another language)
  • Lehnwort noun (word taken from another language)

Greek

1 entries
  • δάνειο noun (word taken from another language)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • oqaasersiaq noun (word taken from another language)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • מִלָּה שְׁאוּלָה noun (word taken from another language)

Hindi

1 entries
  • आगत शब्द noun (word taken from another language)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • jövevényszó noun (word taken from another language)
  • kölcsönzés noun (word taken from another language)
  • átvétel noun (word taken from another language)

Icelandic

2 entries
  • lánsorð noun (word taken from another language)
  • tökuorð noun (word taken from another language)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kata serapan noun (word taken from another language)

Iranian Persian

4 entries
  • دَخیل noun (word taken from another language)
  • وامواژِه noun (word taken from another language)
  • واژِهٔ دَخیل noun (word taken from another language)
  • واژِهٔ عارِیَتی noun (word taken from another language)

Irish

2 entries
  • focal iasachta noun (word taken from another language)
  • iasacht noun (word taken from another language)

Italian

2 entries
  • forestierismo noun (word taken from another language)
  • prestito linguistico noun (word taken from another language)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 借用語 noun (word taken from another language)
  • 外来語 noun (word taken from another language)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • кірме сөз noun (word taken from another language)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ពាក្យកម្ចី noun (word taken from another language)

Korean

2 entries
  • 외래어 noun (word taken from another language)
  • 차용어 noun (word taken from another language)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • өздөштүрүү noun (word taken from another language)

Latvian

1 entries
  • aizguvums noun (word taken from another language)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • skolinys noun (word taken from another language)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • заемка noun (word taken from another language)

Malay

1 entries
  • kata pinjaman noun (word taken from another language)

Mongolian

2 entries
  • зээлдсэн үг noun (word taken from another language)
  • харь үг noun (word taken from another language)

Māori

3 entries
  • kupu mino noun (word taken from another language)
  • kupu pōriro noun (word taken from another language)
  • kupu whakawhiti noun (word taken from another language)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries
  • fremmedord noun (word taken from another language)
  • importord noun (word taken from another language)
  • lånord noun (word taken from another language)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries
  • framandord noun (word taken from another language)
  • importord noun (word taken from another language)
  • låneord noun (word taken from another language)
  • lånord noun (word taken from another language)

Polish

1 entries
  • zapożyczenie noun (word taken from another language)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • empréstimo noun (word taken from another language)
  • estrangeirismo noun (word taken from another language)

Romanian

2 entries
  • cuvânt împrumutat noun (word taken from another language)
  • împrumut noun (word taken from another language)

Russian

2 entries
  • заи́мствование noun (word taken from another language)
  • заи́мствованное сло́во noun (word taken from another language)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • posuđènica noun (word taken from another language)
  • pozajmljenica noun (word taken from another language)
  • позајмљеница noun (word taken from another language)
  • посуђѐница noun (word taken from another language)

Slovak

1 entries
  • prevzaté slovo noun (word taken from another language)

Slovene

2 entries
  • izposojenka noun (word taken from another language)
  • prevzeta beseda noun (word taken from another language)

Spanish

1 entries
  • préstamo lingüístico noun (word taken from another language)

Swedish

3 entries
  • främmande ord noun (word taken from another language)
  • låneord noun (word taken from another language)
  • lånord noun (word taken from another language)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • salitang hiram noun (word taken from another language)

Tajik

1 entries
  • иқтибос noun (word taken from another language)

Tatar

1 entries
  • алынма noun (word taken from another language)

Thai

1 entries
  • คำยืม noun (word taken from another language)

Turkish

2 entries
  • alıntı kelime noun (word taken from another language)
  • alıntı sözcük noun (word taken from another language)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • запози́чення noun (word taken from another language)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries
  • požčonka noun (word taken from another language)

Urdu

1 entries
  • دَخِیلِ لَفْظ noun (word taken from another language)

Uzbek

2 entries
  • oʻzlashtirma noun (word taken from another language)
  • qarz soʻzi noun (word taken from another language)

Vietnamese

4 entries
  • từ du nhập noun (word taken from another language)
  • từ mượn noun (word taken from another language)
  • từ ngoại lai noun (word taken from another language)
  • từ vay mượn noun (word taken from another language)

Welsh

2 entries
  • benthycair noun (word taken from another language)
  • benthyciad noun (word taken from another language)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • לײנװאָרט noun (word taken from another language)

Yoruba

1 entries
  • ọ̀rọ̀-àyálò noun (word taken from another language)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"Calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque.

Source: tatoeba (13692864)

"Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.

Source: wiktionary

New words, and particularly loanwords, are simplified, and hence naturalized in American much more quickly than in English. Employé has long since become employee in our newspapers, and asphalte has lost its final e, and manœuvre has become maneuver, and pyjamas has become pajamas.

Source: wiktionary

This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.

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