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The number of verbs that have the pattern `KATAKANA + る` seems to be
increasing. Some examples include ググる, ダブる, トラブる, バグる, パニクる, etc.

Is there some kind of official name (or even informal name) for these specific
types of verbs? It's not quite the same as wasei eigo, as far as I can see.
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verbs katakana
Is there a name for verbs written as: Katakana+る?
Linguistically, this kind of word is a bit like a **blend** or a
**portmanteau** , where two (or more?) words are munged together. [In
Japanese](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8B%E3%81%B0%E3%82%93%E8%AA%9E),
these are called either 鞄【かばん】語【ご】 (a calque of "portmanteau word") or
混成語【こんせいご】 (a calque of "blended word").

In these cases, your sample verbs would be blends of the borrowed term and the
verb-forming element -る.

However, since the second portion is really only an ending, these might not be
_quite_ the right kind of combination to qualify as blends. Broader categories
to which this kind of word belongs include **neologisms** or
[造語【ぞうご】](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%A0%E8%AA%9E), and **composite
words** or
[合成語【ごうせいご】](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%88%E6%88%90%E8%AA%9E).

While researching for this answer, I happened upon [the サボる article in the
Japanese
Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9C%E3%82%8B#%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E8%A1%A8%E7%8F%BE%E3%81%AB%E6%96%BC%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E4%BD%8D%E7%BD%AE),
which lists a few of these verbs and explains that
「このような造語法【ぞうごほう】はかなり例外的【れいがいてき】であるといえる」. I suspect that this phenomenon is
recent enough that formal academic linguistic terminology might not be settled
yet.
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I have seen them termed as "coined verbs" as they are a hybridization of
foreign loan words (Japanized) into verbs.
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