title: Loan (disambiguation)
text: # Loan (disambiguation)
  
  A loan is a financial instrument.
  
  Loan may also refer to:
  
  ## Analogous concepts
  
  * Borrowing, various senses
  * Loan (sports), a player being allowed to play for another club without signing a contract
  * Interlibrary loan, a user of one library borrowing books, etc. that are owned by another library
  * Linguistics:
     * Loanword, a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation
     * Loan translation, a term in one language translated word-for-word from the term in another language
  
  ## Locations
  
  * Loan, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
  * Loan, Falkirk, a location in Scotland
  * Loans, South Ayrshire, Scotland
  
  ## Name
  
  * Loan, a common Vietnamese name
     * Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Vietnamese general
     * Kelly Marie Tran, Vietnamese-American actress born Trần Loan
  