borrow

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬. More at.

Verb

 * 1) To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
 * 2) To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
 * 3) To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
 * to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
 * 1)  To adopt a word from another language.
 * 2)  In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
 * 3)  To lend.
 * 4)  To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
 * 5) To feign or counterfeit.
 * 6)  To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
 * 7) * Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53)
 * But if ony maiden would borrow me,
 * I would wed her wi' a ring,
 * And a' my land and a' my houses,
 * They should a' be at her command.
 * 1)  To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
 * 2)  To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
 * 3)  To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
 * 1) To feign or counterfeit.
 * 2)  To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
 * 3) * Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53)
 * But if ony maiden would borrow me,
 * I would wed her wi' a ring,
 * And a' my land and a' my houses,
 * They should a' be at her command.
 * 1)  To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
 * 2)  To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
 * 3)  To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
 * But if ony maiden would borrow me,
 * I would wed her wi' a ring,
 * And a' my land and a' my houses,
 * They should a' be at her command.
 * 1)  To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
 * 2)  To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
 * 3)  To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
 * 1)  To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
 * 1)  To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.

Antonyms

 * (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership)
 * (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition)

Translations

 * Aklanon: hueam
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: փոխ առնել,, պարտք վերցնել
 * Aromanian: mprumut
 * Asi: huyam
 * Azerbaijani: borc almaq, borc götürmək
 * Belarusian: пазыча́ць, пазы́чыць
 * Bulgarian:, вземам назаем
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Drung: nga, svkyi
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: prunti
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ottaa lainaksi
 * French:
 * Georgian: სესხება
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: δανείζομαι
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: उधार लेना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: fá lánað
 * Ingrian: lainata
 * Irish: faigh ar iasacht
 * Italian: prendere in prestito
 * Iu Mien: gaav
 * Jamaican Creole: baro, bara, baara
 * Japanese:
 * Khasi: pankylliang
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 일시적으로 받는 (한글)
 * Lao: ຢືມ
 * Latin: mūtuor
 * Latvian: aizņemties
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Lushootseed: ʔalbiw̓əb
 * Macedonian: позајмува, позајми
 * Malay: pinjam
 * Maori: mino
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: azima
 * Norman: emprunter
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Pacoh: manh
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, tomar emprestado
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , получа́ть заём, получи́ть заём, брать взаймы́, взять взаймы́, брать в долг, взять в долг, ,
 * Scots: borrae
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: позајмити
 * Roman:
 * Shan: ,
 * Sicilian: fàrisi mpristari
 * Slovak: požičiavať, pozičať
 * Slovene: sposoditi, izposoditi
 * Spanish: pedir prestado, tomar prestado
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: humiram, manghiram, hiramin, hiraman
 * Tboli: dóm
 * Telugu: అప్పుచేయు
 * Thai:, ขอยืม,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: позича́ти, пози́чити
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: qev
 * Yiddish: לײַען
 * Zhuang: ciq


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: zapożyczać,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: prevziať, preberať
 * Ukrainian:, ,


 * Catalan: ,
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: prunti
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Interlingua: imprestar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khakas: փոխառել
 * Maori: mino
 * Polish: zapożyczać,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: prevziať, preberať
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అప్పు చేయు

Noun

 * 1)  Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
 * This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
 * 1)  A borrow pit.
 * 2)  In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
 * 1)  A borrow pit.
 * 2)  In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
 * 1)  In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Irish: cúiteamh

Etymology 2
From, , from , , from , from (related to Etymology 1, above).

Noun

 * 1)  A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
 * 2)  A surety; someone standing bail.