This is the 9692nd most frequent French word.
emprunt
"Emprunt" means "loan" or "borrowing" in English.
Here, 'emprunt' is used to refer to a financial loan taken from a bank.
Il a fait un emprunt à la banque pour acheter une maison.
He took out a loan from the bank to buy a house.
In this case, 'emprunt' signifies a linguistic borrowing, where one language takes a word from another.
Le mot 'ordinateur' est un emprunt à l'anglais 'computer'.
The word 'ordinateur' is a borrowing from the English word 'computer'.
Here, 'emprunt' refers to borrowing physical objects temporarily from someone.