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borrowing
bor·row·ing B0406500 (bŏr′ō-ĭng, bôr′-)n. Something that is borrowed, especially a word borrowed from one language for use in another.borrowing (ˈbɒrəʊɪŋ) n1. (Banking & Finance) the taking of loans from banks2. (Linguistics) the adoption of words from other languages3. (Linguistics) a word or expression borrowed from another languagebor•row•ing (ˈbɒr oʊ ɪŋ, ˈbɔr-) n. something borrowed, as a foreign word or phrase. [1350–1400] ThesaurusNoun | 1. | borrowing - the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"adoptionappropriation - a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest"naturalisation, naturalization - changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of many Italian words"misappropriation - wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"crossover - the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience; "a jazz-classical crossover album" | | 2. | borrowing - obtaining funds from a lendertransaction, dealing, dealings - the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me"pawn - borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan | Translationsborrow (ˈborəu) verb to take (something, often money) temporarily with the intention of returning it. He borrowed a book from the library. 借 借ˈborrower noun 借用者 借用者ˈborrowing noun 借 借 borrow from: I borrow money from a friend . lend to: My friend lends money to me / My friend lends me money . IdiomsSeeborrowBorrowing
Borrowing (in language), the reproduction by the phonetic and morphological means of one language of the morphemes, words, and phrases of another language. Vocabulary is more frequently susceptible to borrowing than are the other levels of language. The causes of the appearance of lexical borrowings in the world’s languages are connected with the borrowing of new objects (traktor, tank, and kombain) or concepts (respublika or ekzamen), with the duplication of words already in the language for the use of international terminology (import and eksport along with Russian vvoz and vyvoz), with the attempt to isolate a certain shade of meaning (shkola and studiia [“school” and “studio,” respectively];prisposobliat’ and aranzhirovat’ [“to adjust” and “to arrange,” respectively]), and with the influence of fashion (viktoriia instead of pobeda [“victory”] and polites instead of vezhlivost’ [“politeness”] in 18th-century Russian). Borrowings are more easily assimilated in spoken language; however, they are frequently subject to distortions and the influence of folk etymology (Russian napWnik from the German Nadfil [“file”]). Literary borrowings are closer to the original both in meaning and in phonic form, but they are less readily assimilated by a language, preserving certain features that are alien to the language’s phonetics and grammar: in Rus-sian dekel’, “tympan” (with a hard d), randevu and kommiunike (“rendezvous” and “communique,” respectively; both indeclinable and not corresponding to the form of the Russian nominative case), and zhiuri, kk jury”(zhiu is an unusual cluster for Russian). The assimilation of borrowings follows three trends: phonetic, which is the adaptation of the phonic form of the borrowed word to the phonetic norms of the language (Russian dzhaz from the English “jazz” [dzaez]); grammatical, which is the inclusion of a word in the grammatical system of the language (Russian lozung, “slogan” [masculine], from the German die Losung, “watchword” [feminine], according to the norms of Russian); and lexical, which is the inclusion of a word in the system of values (revoliutsiia and sotsializm). According to their degree of assimilation, borrowings range from complete assimilation (in Russian, izba [“hut”] and loshad [“horse”]; in English, “social”) to barbarisms (in Russian, rename (“reputation”]; in English, “tsar” and “samovar”). Phonetics and grammar are more stable and yield less readily to borrowing; however, even here cases are known of the borrowing of the sound [f] by Russian, Lithuanian, and Uzbek, and the carryover of the aspectual differentiations of the verb from Russian to Komi and of the multicase system from the Caucasian languages to Ossetic. A distinction is made between direct borrowings and borrowings through another language. The process of borrowing intensifies under conditions of bilingualism. REFERENCESBloomfield, L. lazyk. Moscow, 1968. Chapters 25–27. (Translated from English.) Evreinova, I. A. “Zaimstvovaniia v russkom iazyke.”Slavia, 1965, no. 3. Deroy, L. L’Emprunt linguistique. Paris, 1956. Haugen, E. “The Analysis of Linguistic Borrowing.”Language, 1950, vol. 26, no. 2. Kurytowicz, I. “Le Mécanisme differenciateur de la langue.” Cahiers Ferdinand de Sa us sure, 1963, no. 20.V. V. RASKIN borrowing
borrowing the process by which money is received subject to a condition for repayment, either on demand or at some ascertainable future time.FinancialSeeBorrowborrowing
Synonyms for borrowingnoun the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another sourceSynonymsRelated Words- appropriation
- naturalisation
- naturalization
- misappropriation
- crossover
noun obtaining funds from a lenderRelated Words- transaction
- dealing
- dealings
- pawn
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