The term 'borrowed noun' usually means Words in a language that were 'borrowed' or adopted and adapted from another language. The English language has many borrowed nouns, for example:
- angora, wool from the angora goat, named for the Turkish city, Angora or Ancyra
- bungalow, from the Indian languages Gujarati (bangalo) and Hindi (bangla)
- charm, from the old French charme, which originated from Latin
- dome, from the Greek doma, which also became the adjective domestic
- ego, from the Latin pronoun I, ego.
- frankfurter, named for the city of Frankfort in Germany
- grafitti, from the Italian graffiti, plural of graffito
- hurricane, from the Spanish huracan
- icon, from the Latin icon, the Greek eikon
- jungle, from the Hindi jangal and Sanskrit jangala
- ketchup, from the Chinese Word pronounced koechiap; also catsup from variations in Anglicization
- language, from the Old French langage
- mumbo jumbo, from the Mandingo Word Maamajomboo, the name of a tribal god
- neon, from the Greek Word neos (new)
- opossum, from Powhatan (Algonquian) opassum
- pyjamas (or pajamas), from the Persian payjameh
- quart, from Old French quarte, which originated from the Latin quartarius
- ranch, from the from Spanish rancho
- smuggler, from the German smuggeln or Dutch smokkelen "to transport illegally"
- thug, from the Hindi thag
- unguent, from Latin unguentem
- vampire, from the French vampire or German Vampir
- wanderlust, directly from the German Word Wanderlustwith the same meaning
- yacht, from the Norwegian jaght, or German jacht
- zinnia, named for the German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn
