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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Shortening of application.
Noun
app (plural apps)
- (computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
1999 February, Maximum PC, volume 4, number 2:A visual tool can be thought of as a graphics app that generates most of your program's GUI code for you
1999, Jerry Bradenbaugh, JavaScript application cookbook, page xi:So is a spreadsheet app, but I'm not going to put those on a web site any time soon.
1999 November, AUUGN, volume 20, number 4, page 9:The Web browser was the killer app that kickstarted the Internet and, in turn, enabled it to be embedded in everything
2005 May, Popular Science, volume 266, number 5, page 78:Want realtime flight and gate updates? A calorie counter? A remote for your DVD player? Chances are there's an app for it. Smartphones separate themselves in another key area: connectivity
- (military) application (use, purpose; not a computer program)
- 1995, The X-Files (TV series), Nisei (episode)
- SCULLY: What are these chips used for?
PENDRELL: Video games, brake systems, they're finding new apps every day. I just read about one being designed to help the severely disabled operate computers using brainwaves.
- (education, informal) application (to a college etc.)
2011, Nicole Leigh Shepherd, Stealing Bases:“Ky—please don't take this the wrong way—I actually have to wear a dress from our line. You know, to show off my marketing materials on my college app. So, I'm working on it with Hannah.”
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Translations
small computer application
- Afrikaans: toep, app
- Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīq)
- Hijazi Arabic: تَطْبِيق m (taṭbīg)
- Armenian: հավելված (hy) (havelvac), գործադիր (hy) (gorcadir)
- Azerbaijani: tətbiq, proqram (az)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: дада́так m (dadátak), прагра́ма f (prahráma)
- Bulgarian: приложе́ние (bg) n (priložénie), програ́ма (bg) f (prográma)
- Catalan: apli f, app (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 應用程式/应用程式 (jing3 jung6 cing4 sik1), app (ep1)
- Mandarin: 應用程序/应用程序 (yìngyòng chéngxù) (mainland China), 應用程式/应用程式 (zh) (yìngyòng chéngshì) (Taiwan), 應用/应用 (zh) (yìngyòng), APP (zh)
- Czech: aplikace (cs) f
- Danish: app c
- Dutch: app (nl) m, applicatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: apo (eo), aplikaĵo
- Estonian: app (et), äpp
- Faroese: app f
- Finnish: sovellus (fi), mobiilisovellus (fi), äppi (fi), applikaatio (fi), appi (fi)
- French: appli (fr) f, application (fr) f, programme (fr) m
- Georgian: აპლიკაცია (aṗliḳacia)
- German: App (de) f
- Greek: εφαρμογή (el) f (efarmogí)
- Hebrew: יישום \ יִשּׂוּם m (yisúm), אַפְּלִיקַצְיָה (he) f (aplikátsya), תׇּכְנָה f (tokhná)
- Hungarian: alkalmazás (hu), app (hu) (slang)
- Icelandic: app n
- Irish: aip f
- Italian: app (it) f, applicazione (it) f, programma (it) m
- Japanese: アプリ (ja) (apuri), アプリケーション (apurikēshon)
- Kazakh: қосымша (kk) (qosymşa), қолданба (kk) (qoldanba)
- Khmer: អាប់ (km) (ʼap), កម្មវិធី (km) (kamvithii)
- Korean: 앱 (ko) (aep), 애플리케이션 (ko) (aepeullikeisyeon)
- Kyrgyz: колдонмо (ky) (koldonmo), тиркеме (tirkeme)
- Lao: ແອັບ (ʼæp)
- Latvian: aplikācija f, lietotne f
- Lithuanian: programėlė f
- Macedonian: апликација f (aplikacija), извршник m (izvršnik)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: taupānga, pūmanawa tautono
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: app m
- Nynorsk: app m
- Ojibwe: mazinaabikiwebinigan-agaasaa'makak
- Persian: اپلیکیشن (aplikeyšen), اپ (fa) (ap)
- Polish: apka (pl) f, aplikacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: app (pt) m or f, (Brazil) aplicativo (pt) m, (Brazil) aplicativo móvel m, (Portugal) aplicação (pt) f, (Portugal) aplicação móvel f
- Romanian: app n, aplicație (ro) f
- Russian: приложе́ние (ru) n (priložénije), програ́ммка (ru) f (prográmmka), прикладна́я програ́мма f (prikladnája prográmma), програ́мма (ru) f (prográmma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: аплика́ција f
- Roman: aplikácija (sh) f
- Slovak: aplikácia f
- Slovene: aplikacija f
- Spanish: apli f, app m or f
- Swedish: app (sv) c, mobilapp (sv) c, mobilapplikation (sv) c
- Tajik: нармафзор (tg) (narmafzor), барнома (tg) (barnoma), замима (tg) (zamima)
- Thai: แอป (ɛ́p), แอปพลิเคชัน (ɛ́p-plì-kee-chân)
- Turkish: app (tr), mobil uygulama
- Ukrainian: застосу́нок m (zastosúnok), дода́ток m (dodátok), програ́ма f (prohráma)
- Uzbek: ilova (uz)
- Vietnamese: ứng dụng (vi)
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Etymology 2
Shortening of appetizer.
Noun
app (plural apps)
- (informal) appetizer
2007, Evelyn Spence, Explorer's Guide Colorado's Classic Mountain Towns:The food is some of Breck's best: apps like sweet potato gnocchi with smoked chicken and sage cream […]
2009, Robin Asbell, New Vegetarian:If you lay out a platter of these exciting, beautiful vegetarian appetizers, the other apps will pale in comparison.
2010, Bill Allen, Grillin', Chillin', and Swillin', page 1:This is not to say that we only serve apps at dinner parties. Quite the contrary; but for smaller gatherings, good appetizers can distinguish you as a host who puts more thought and effort into his or her party menu. Better yet, most apps are relatively easy to make […]
Etymology 3
Shortening of appearance.
Noun
app (plural apps)
- (sports) An appearance in a game.
That player has had ten apps this season.
See also
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English app.
Pronunciation
Noun
app f (plural apps)
- app
- Synonyms: aplicació mòbil, apli
Further reading
Danish
Etymology
From English app, shortened from application.
Noun
app c (singular definite appen, plural indefinite apper or apps)
- (computing) app
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Dutch
Etymology
From English app. The senses pertaining to text messaging are influenced by the app name WhatsApp.
Pronunciation
Noun
app f or m (plural apps, diminutive appje n)
- an app
Wat voor apps heb jij erop staan?- What apps have you got on your phone?
- (Netherlands, typically in the diminutive) a text message sent using an app
Stuur alsjeblieft even een appje zodra je veilig thuis bent.- Please send a text as soon as you're home safe.
- (Netherlands) a chat on a text messaging app, particularly a group chat
Ze ruzieden in de app van het studentenhuis.- They had a fight in the student accommodation chat.
Derived terms
Faroese
Etymology
From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
app f (genitive singular appar, plural appir)
- (computing) app (for a mobile device)
Declension
French
Pronunciation
Noun
app m (plural apps)
- Only used in bon app (“bon appétit”)
Hungarian
Etymology
Clipping of applikáció (“application”), from English application.
Pronunciation
Noun
app (plural appok)
- (computing) app, application
- Synonyms: alkalmazás, applikáció
Declension
Icelandic
Etymology
From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
app n (genitive singular apps, nominative plural öpp)
- (computing) app (for a mobile device)
- Synonym: smáforrit
Declension
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English app.
Noun
app f (invariable)
- app
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *appi.
Noun
app
- father-in-law
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English app.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.pi/, (initialism) /ˌaˌpeˈpe/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.pe/, (initialism) /ˌaˌpeˈpe/
Noun
app (Portugal) f or (Brazil) m (plural apps)
- (computing) app (small computer application)
- Synonyms: aplicação, (Brazil) aplicativo
2014, Peter Thiel, translated by Miguel Bôto, Zero to One, →ISBN, unnumbered page; republished as De Zero a Um, Leya, 2015:A realização de pequenas melhorias relativamente a algo que já existe poderá levá-lo a um máximo local, mas não o irá ajudar a alcançar o máximo global. Poderá desenvolver a melhor versão de uma app para encomendar papel higiénico através do iPhone, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English app (with gender by association with aplicación f).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈap/
- Rhymes: -ap
- Syllabification: app
Noun
app f (plural apps)
- (computing) app
- Synonym: aplicación
2019 December 16, “Una app de citas descartará posibles parejas por su ADN”, in El País:Con la app de George Church, sus padres no se habrían conocido, porque habrían sido declarados incompatibles.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
- According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el app, un app
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
- In practice, this rule is often not followed and the form la app is widely used.
Swedish
Noun
app c
- (computing) an app (especially on mobile phones and the like, like in English)
- Synonym: applikation
Declension
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Interjection
app
- Expresses reproach; "Hey, don't do that!"
App app app – den där får du inte äta. Den är till festen imorgon.- App app app – you can't eat that one. It's for the party tomorrow.
Usage notes
Usually repeated.
References