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Wiktionary says:

(double transitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

Quotations

1681 “Trial of Sir Miles Stapleton”, in State Trials, 33 Charles II, page 516: Yes, my lord, he told me this in my own house; and I told him he might go to esquire Tindal, and I lent him eighteen pence, and borrowed him a horse in the town.

1866 April 20, Charles W. G. Howard, “Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee”, in parliamentary debates, House of Commons, page 84, columns {{{columns}}}: I went out and borrowed him a night cap; put him my night shirt on, and wrapped him in a blanket.

1999 August 1, “Ronnie Dawson, Singer, Comments on his Career and Music”, in NPR_Weekend: My folks couldn't afford a guitar, so my dad borrowed me a mandolin one time, and I was just learning to play it pretty good and the guy that he borrowed it from wanted it back.

2006, Laurie Graham, Gone with the Windsors, page 116: George Lightfoot seemed to have forgotten he was meant to be a Lost Sheep, and turned up as the Tin Man, but I forgave him, because he'd managed to borrow me a divine brass crazier from one of his bishop friends.

Still doesn't quite feel natural to me, but I'm not a native English speaker. Many people will probably have to think twice to understand who is borrowing what from whom for whom else. You're probably better off being more explicit:

He borrowed some money for me from ...



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