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    [Noun]  | "loan*word" | \ ˈlōn-ˌwərd \


    1: a word taken from another language and at least partly naturalized


    Origin: 1869 ;

    [Noun]  | "loanwords" 


     [ "Loanword" ]

    1: When a word is loaned from another language, some examples include: croissant from French, tamales from Spanish, piranha from Portuguese, piano from Italian, ersatz from German, tsunami from Japanese, qipao from Chinese, fjord from Norwegian, and za'atar from Arabic.

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