Meaning and Origin
What does the name Loan mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Germany says the name Loan means "A magic creature like a Phoenix but the Vietnamese version".
- According to a user from Georgia, U.S., the name Loan means "light".
Etymology: See Lawn
- The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
- That which one lends or borrows, especially a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan .
Etymology: OE. lone lane, AS. lān læn, fr. león to lend; akin to D. leen loan, fief, G. lehen fief, Icel. lān, G. leihen to lend, OHG. līhan, Icel. ljī, Goth. leihwan, L. linquere to leave, Gr. lei`pein, Skr. ric. √119. Cf. Delinquent Eclipse Eleven Ellipse Lend License Relic
- A word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
- The temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
- Give temporarily; let have for a limited time ("loan me some money")
From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán (“loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“that which is lent, loan, fief”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”). Cognate with Icelandic lán (“loan”), Swedish lån (“loan”), Danish lån (“loan”), German Lehen (“fief, feudal estate”), Dutch leen (“fief, feudatory, something lent”), West Frisian lien (“something borrowed, loan”), North Frisian leen (“fief, loan, office”), Scots lane, lain, len (“loan”), Old English lǣn (“loan, borrowing, lease, grant, gift, present, benefit”). More at lend.
- (banking, finance) A sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest).
- He got a of five thousand pounds.
- All from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
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- The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
- He made a payment on his .
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- The permission to borrow any item.
- Thank you for the of your lawn mower.
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See lawn.
- (Scotland) A lonnen.
loan was also found in the following language(s): Finnish, Spanish, and Vietnamese