loanword; borrowed word
Linguistics term for a word adopted from another language. In Japanese, common examples include パン, アルバイト, and コンピューター.
日本語には多くの借用語がある。
Japanese has many loanwords.
"Arubaito" is a loanword from German.
借用語 is the broader linguistic term for any borrowed word, while 外来語 usually refers specifically to non-Chinese foreign borrowings written in katakana.
Compound of 借用 (borrowing) and 語 (word). The term is a direct translation of the English 'loanword' and is used primarily in linguistics.