"semantic loan" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: semantic loans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} semantic loan (plural semantic loans)
  1. (linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language. Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: semantic calque Related terms: loan meaning, calque, loan translation, loanword Translations (Translations): اِقْتِرَاض مَعْنَوِيّ (iqtirāḍ maʕnawiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), betydningslån [neuter] (Danish), betekenisontlening [feminine] (Dutch), merkityslaina (Finnish), Bedeutungsentlehnung [feminine] (German), σημασιολογικό δάνειο (simasiologikó dáneio) [neuter] (Greek), kalka znaczeniowa [feminine] (Polish), семанти́ческая ка́лька (semantíčeskaja kálʹka) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-semantic_loan-en-noun-nWFZ4L7v Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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