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You can make 13 words from lend according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of lend

lend elnd lned nled enld neld ledn eldn lden dlen edln deln lnde nlde ldne dlne ndle dnle endl nedl ednl denl ndel dnel

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Definitions and meaning of lend

lend

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĕnd, IPA^(key): /lɛnd/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /lɪnd/
• Rhymes: -ɛnd
• Homophone: lind (pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”).

Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Danish låne (“to lend, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.

Verb

lend (third-person singular simple present lends, present participle lending, simple past and past participle lent)

1. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
2. (intransitive) To make a loan.
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
5. (proscribed) To borrow.

Antonyms

• borrow

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• give back
• loan
• pay back

Noun

lend

1. (chiefly dialectal, with "the") Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
   • c. 1800s, Arthur McBride, version from 2012, Dick Sheridan, Irish Songs for Ukulele (Songbook), Hal Leonard Corporation (→ISBN):

     “But,” says Arthur, “I wouldn't be proud of your clothes, / For you've only the lend of them, as I suppose.”

   • 1866, Walkden, Diary, 6:

     Yesterday asked Mr. Aray the lend of 8s. 6d. for a month.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landijō, *landį̄ (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (whence loin), Polish lędźwie (“loins”), Russian ля́двея (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).

Alternative forms

• leynd, leind, lind (Scotland)
• lende (obsolete)

Noun

lend (plural lends or linder)

1. (anatomy, UK dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
2. (UK dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

References

• “lend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “lend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lenta, from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *lent- (“lentil”), of neolithic substrate origin. Compare Latin lens, lentis, Old High German linsi.

Noun

lend f

1. acorn

Related terms

• lëndë

Estonian

Noun

lend (genitive lennu, partitive lendu)

1. flight

Declension

Derived terms

• lennujaam (“airport”)
• lennuõnnetus (“aviation accident”)

Middle English

Verb

lend

1. Alternative form of lenden (“to come, to dwell”)