loan
ローン
解説 Definition
loan は、お金などの貸し付けや借り入れ、つまりローンという意味です。日本語の「ローン」は住宅や車の分割払いの印象が強いですが、英語の loan はお金の貸し借り全般に広く使われます。
Money or another valuable thing that is lent to someone for a period and is expected to be returned, usually with interest when money is involved. The word can also refer to the act or arrangement of lending something temporarily.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
日本語の「ローン」より範囲が広く、銀行の住宅・自動車ローンだけでなく、金銭や物を一定期間貸すこと・借りること全般を指します。get a loan「融資を受ける」、repay a loan「ローンを返済する」、on loan「貸出中」をひとまとまりで覚えると、debtとの違いも明確です。
Do not limit loan to Japanese-style housing or car financing. In English, it covers money or an object made available temporarily and expected to be returned. Learn it through common combinations: get or take out a loan, repay a loan, a bank loan, and on loan. A loan is the money or item originally lent, while a debt is the obligation that remains because something is owed. Also connect the noun loan with the verb lend: a bank lends money, and the borrower receives a loan.
例文
He got a loan from the bank.
彼は銀行からローンを受けました。
The loan helped her buy a car.
そのローンのおかげで彼女は車を買えました。
I need to pay back the loan soon.
私はそのローンを近いうちに返済する必要があります。
loan の類義語・関連語
loan の語源・成り立ち Etymology
loan は古ノルド語 lán「貸し与えられたもの」から英語に入り、さらにゲルマン祖語をへて印欧祖語 *leikw-「残す・任せる」にさかのぼります。もとは「一時的に相手の手元へ残しておく物」という発想なので、後で返す前提の『貸付・ローン』になります。関連語は lend、loanword。
Loan entered English from Old Norse lán, meaning something lent. It belongs to an old Germanic word family associated with leaving or allowing something to remain temporarily with another person, and it has been connected with the Indo-European root reconstructed as *leikw-, “leave.” This history suits the modern idea of property or money placed in someone else’s hands with the expectation that it will later be returned.
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