borrowing
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[edit] English
[edit] Verb
borrowing
- Present participle of borrow.
- She is borrowing my pen.
[edit] Noun
borrowing (plural borrowings)
- An instance of borrowing something.
- (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
[edit] Translations
loanword — see loanword