Term for multiple foreign words sharing the same loanword in Japanese?


Is there a term that describes multiple foreign words sharing the same
Japanese-language loanword?

For example, Wikipedia's disambiguation page for フォーク (Romaji: foku) covers
both the English word "fork" and the English word "folk", because Japanese-
speakers don't have "r" and "l" different.




The term you're looking for could be "homonym". Or perhaps it could be a
"homophone" - words that share the same pronunciation but different in
meaning. The term for this in Japanese should be 同音異議語 (どうおんいぎご)

