What is borrowing?

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What is borrowing?

Borrowing refers to the process of adopting words or phrases from one language and incorporating them into another language. It occurs when a language lacks a specific term or concept and adopts it from another language to fill the gap. Borrowed words often undergo phonetic and/or spelling adaptations to fit the phonological and orthographic rules of the borrowing language.