using the 訓読(くんよ)み (kun'yomi, “native Japanese reading”) of kanji to represent 大和(やまと)言(こと)葉(ば) (yamato kotoba, “native Japanese words”), irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning

to borrow

borrowing, a debt, a loan (for the borrower, not the lender) / (obsolete) in the Edo period, a system for arranging house calls by prostitutes

there are many, there is much, there are numerous

kun'yomi

kanji

many, much

multi-

instruction / teachings

a male given name