lender

See also: Lender

English

Etymology

From Middle English lendare, leendare, variants of lenner, lenere, equivalent to lend +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛndɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)

Noun

lender (plural lenders)

1. One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     [Polonius]: Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
     For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
     And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

Antonyms

• borrower

Derived terms

• lender of last resort
• mortgage lender
• neither a borrower nor a lender be

 

Translations

one who lends, especially money

• Armenian: պարտատեր (hy) (partater), փոխատու (hy) (pʻoxatu), վարկատու (hy) (varkatu)
• Catalan: prestador m
• Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏙᎵᏍᏗᏍᎩ (didadolisdisgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貸款人／贷款人 (zh) (dàikuǎnrén), 出借人 (chūjièrén)

• Finnish: lainaaja (fi), lainanantaja (fi)
• French: prêteur (fr) m, prêteuse (fr) f
• German: Darlehensgeber m, Verleiher (de) m
• Greek: δανειστής (el) m (daneistís)

  Ancient: δανειστής m (daneistḗs)

• Irish: iasachtóir m
• Italian: creditore (it) m
• Japanese: 貸手 (かして, kashite)
• Latin: crēditor (la) m
• Malay: pemberi pinjam
• Maori: kaitukupūtea., kaitukumoni
• Norman: prêteux m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: långiver m

• Polish: pożyczkodawca m
• Portuguese: emprestador m, mutuador m
• Russian: ода́лживающий (ru) m (odálživajuščij), даю́щий взаймы́ m (dajúščij vzajmý), даю́щий в долг m (dajúščij v dolg), кредито́р (ru) m (kreditór)
• Spanish: prestador m
• Swahili: mkopeshaji
• Swedish: långivare (sv) c, utlånare c, kreditgivare (sv) c (only of money)
• Telugu: అప్పిచ్చువాడు (appiccuvāḍu)

See also

• creditor
• debtor

Anagrams

• eldern, eldren, relend

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.dər/

Noun

lender f

1. indefinite plural of lend