[bor-oh, bawr-oh] 
| 1. | to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower. |
| 2. | to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source: to borrow an idea from the opposition; to borrow a word from French. |
| 3. | Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower. |
| 4. | to borrow something: Don't borrow unless you intend to repay. |
| 5. | Nautical.
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| 6. | Golf. to putt on other than a direct line from the lie of the ball to the hole, to compensate for the incline or roll of the green. |
| 7. | borrow trouble, to do something that is unnecessary and may cause future harm or inconvenience. |
[bor-oh, bawr-oh] | George, 1803–81, English traveler, writer, and student of languages, esp. Romany. |
[buh-roh-vee-uhn] , adjective, noun | bor·row (bŏr'ō, bôr'ō) v. bor·rowed, bor·row·ing, bor·rows v. tr.
To obtain or receive something. [Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian; see bhergh-1 in Indo-European roots.] bor'row·er n. |
Borrow
The Israelites "borrowed" from the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35, R.V., "asked") in accordance with a divine command (3:22; 11:2). But the word (sha'al) so rendered here means simply and always to "request" or "demand." The Hebrew had another word which is properly translated "borrow" in Deut. 28:12; Ps. 37:21. It was well known that the parting was final. The Egyptians were so anxious to get the Israelites away out of their land that "they let them have what they asked" (Ex. 12:36, R.V.), or literally "made them to ask," urged them to take whatever they desired and depart. (See LOAN.)
borrow
In addition to the idiom beginning with borrow, also see beg, borrow, or steal; on borrowed time.
