The temporary provision of money (usually at interest).

Roget 787: lending etc. v.; loan, advance, accommodation, feneration^†; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan etc. (security) 771; investment; note, bond, commercial paper.    mont de piete [Fr.], pawnshop, my uncle's.    lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer, loan shark.    loaner (of item loaned). ... show more

Dutch: lening
Polish: kredyt

A word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English.

synonym: loanword.

Dutch: krediet, lening, bastaardwoord, leenwoord
Polish: zapożyczenie, barbaryzm, wyraz obcy, pożyczka

Give temporarily; let have for a limited time:
— Loan me some money.

synonym: lend.

Roget 787: lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn etc. (security) 771.    intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.    let, demise, lease, sett^†, underlet.    ... show more

Dutch: lenen, uitlenen