noun
loanword; borrowed word
Linguistics term for a word adopted from another language. In Japanese, common examples include パン, アルバイト, and コンピューター.
日本語には多くの借用語がある。
Japanese has many loanwords.
「アルバイト」はドイツ語からの借用語だ。
"Arubaito" is a loanword from German.
和製英語 are English-based words coined in Japan (e.g., サラリーマン), which are not true borrowings from English. 借用語 refers to words actually adopted from another language.
Compound of 借用 (borrowing) and 語 (word). The term is a direct translation of the English 'loanword' and is used primarily in linguistics.