Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Loan

Loan (lōn) , noun

[See Lawn.]

A loanin. [Scottish]

Loan , noun

[Old English lone, lane, Anglo-Saxon lān, lan, from leín to lend; akin to Dutch leen loan, fief, German lehen fief, Icelandic lān, German leihen to lend, Old High German līhan, Icelandic ljī, Gothic leihwan, Latin linquere to leave, Greek lei`pein, Sanskrit ric. r119. Compare Delinquent, Eclipse, Eleven, Ellipse, Lend, License, Relic.]

1.
The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
2.
That which one lends or borrows, especially a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan.
Collocations (1)
Loan office , (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.

Loan , transitive verb

To lend; -- sometimes with out. — Kent
By way of location or loaning them out. — J. Langley (1644)