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

Kyūjitai form of 仮借

Alternative spelling of 宿借り (“hermit crabs”)

the use of 万葉仮名 (man'yōgana) to spell sounds in Old Japanese, irrespective of the kanji's meaning

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

donkey in a lion's skin; one who borrows the authority of someone else and acts arrogant