Loanwords are words of foreign origin which have been adopted into another language without significantly altering their original meaning. This page is a subpage of WikiProject Martial Arts, and is concerned exclusively with listing and debating whether martial arts-related terms have been adopted as loanwords into English.
Extablishing a particular word's status as a loanword is relevant only insofar as the Manual of Style is concerned, as loanwords are treated like other English words, and non-loanwords should be italicized every time they appear. Further, the accepted loanword spelling or romanization is how the word should appear when it is the title of an article, as well as every time it appears in the article, except when correct spelling or romanization is being specifically discussed or indicated parenthetically.
This page includes guidelines for debating whether a word is a loanword, as well as a series of tables with words which have been approved or rejected as loanwords, divided by language of origin.