Definition of loan:
(n) :
the contract and array of legal and/or ethical obligations surrounding a loan. He made a payment on his loan; the permission to
borrow any item
"thank you for the loan of your lawn mower."
(v) :
to
lend. This usage is confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof) and elsewhere is ungrammatical (loan being the noun, and
lend the verb)
"2006: When you loan somebody something, they have the responsibility to safeguard it. — Judge Judy (unidentified episode, but frequently heard from her as a verb)"