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# loanword

«loanword» in Mova's school dictionary: **A word one language has taken from another language and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a loanword, loanwords); also written «loan word»

### meaning for a pupil

1) A word one language has taken from another language and now uses as its own, like «pizza» from Italian or «kindergarten» from German. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#m1)

2) (language study) Any borrowed word, studied to see where words came from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons and spelling, loanwords explain odd spellings: «ballet» and «café» come from French, «tsunami» from Japanese, «kangaroo» from an Australian Aboriginal language (Guugu Yimithirr). English is full of loanwords from French, Latin, Norse, Greek and many more. Phrases: «a loanword from French», «borrowed into English». Knowing a word is a loanword helps you guess how it sounds and why it is spelt that way.

### examples

- «Pyjamas» is a loanword from Hindi and Urdu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x1)
- «Shampoo» is a loanword from Hindi too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x2)
- Our teacher showed us that «chocolate» is a loanword from Spanish, which took it from Nahuatl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x3)
- Japanese has many English loanwords, like «aisu kuriimu» for ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x4)
- «Safari» came into English as a loanword from Swahili. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x5)
- Many loanwords keep their foreign spelling, such as «croissant». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x6)
- We made a poster of loanwords and the countries they came from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x7)
- «Boomerang» is a loanword from an Aboriginal language of Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/#x8)

### note

Countable: one loanword, two loanwords. Can be written as one word or two («loan word»). The language does not give the word back – «loan» is just a picture word. Close words: «borrowing» (same idea), «calque» (a word translated part by part, like «skyscraper» in other languages). Not a maths word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «loanword» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loanword/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.