No. 439 in Malay

pinjaman

"Pinjaman" means "loan" in English.

In a sentence

Saya telah memohon pinjaman untuk membeli sebuah rumah.
I have applied for a loan to buy a house.
In this sentence, 'pinjaman' (loan) is used to denote borrowing money from a financial institution.
Perpustakaan menawarkan pinjaman buku selama dua minggu.
The library offers book loans for two weeks.
Here, 'pinjaman' (loan) refers to borrowing books from a library for a predefined period.
Kata-kata ini adalah pinjaman daripada bahasa Sanskrit.
These words are borrowings from the Sanskrit language.
In this context, 'pinjaman' (borrowing) indicates linguistic borrowing or loanwords adopted into Malay from another language.

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