loan

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ləʊn/    美 /loʊn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
    — Because of the loan that John made to me, I was able to pay my tuition for the upcoming semester.
  2. An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse. Northern-England,Scotland
    — the Loan of Turchloy, the Black Loan
  3. 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).
    — All loans from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
  4. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
    — He made a payment on his loan.
  5. The permission to borrow any item.
    — Thank you for the loan of your lawn mower.
动词 v.
  1. To lend (something) to (someone). US,ditransitive,informal,usually
    — In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.

词形变化

loans plural loans present,singular,third-person loaning participle,present loaned participle,past loaned past loans plural

词汇关系

上位词
bailment
下位词
mutuum commodatum

词源

词源 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.
词源 2
From Scottish Gaelic lòn (“marshy meadow”) (compare lèana (“wet meadow, marsh, meadow”)).
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