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loanword

word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language
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Summary

loanword ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,582 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: word[2]
  • Commons category: Loanwords[3]
  • Opposite of: native word[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lists of loanwords[5]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6], Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[7]
  • Has immediate cause: linguistic borrowing[8]
  • Different from: unadapted loanword[9], calque[10]
  • Studied by: lexicology[11], sociolinguistics[12]
  • Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133073610[13]
  • P14541: 4ZY9rK[14]

Why It Matters

loanword has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] loanword is known by 117 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eurovoc id → —
    Isocat id → 2814, 2743
    Sitelink count → 89
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'azb', 'bar', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'b
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2743, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7328039|borrowed word (loan) (#7328039)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'mat"
  2. 13w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eurovoc id → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Eurovoc id: 736, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260983|batch #260983]]"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4ZY9rK
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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