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app

See also: APP, App, and app.

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Apma with p as a placeholder.

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app

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Apma.

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /æp/
  • (US) IPA(key): [æʔp̚]
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: app
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

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Shortening of application.

Noun

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app (plural apps)

  2. (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
    • 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 53:
      Parking is by app, which (when it works) is good. But £7.70 to park is extortionate, so GTR needs to look at reducing that.
  3. (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.
  4. (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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Etymology 2

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Shortening of appetizer.

Noun

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app (plural apps)

  1. (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

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Shortening of appearance.

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app (plural apps)

  1. (sports) An appearance in a game.
    That player has had ten apps this season.

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English app.

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Noun

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app f (plural apps)

  1. app
    Synonyms: aplicació mòbil, apli

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Chinese

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Etymology 1

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From English app.

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app (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. (computing, mobile telephony) app (Classifier: 個／个 c; 隻／只 c)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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app

  1. alternative form of APP

Cornish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English app.

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Noun

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app m (plural appys)

  1. (computing) app

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  • “app” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Danish

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Etymology

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From English app, shortened from application.

Noun

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app c (singular definite appen, plural indefinite apper or apps)

  1. (computing) app

Declension

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Declension of app
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative app appen apper
apps 		appsene
apperne
appene
genitive apps appens appers
apps' 		appsenes
appernes
appenes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From English app. The senses pertaining to text messaging are influenced by the app name WhatsApp.

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Noun

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app f or m (plural apps, diminutive appje n)

  1. an app
    Wat voor apps heb jij erop staan?
    What apps have you got on your phone?
  2. (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.
  3. (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.

Verb

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app

  1. inflection of appen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

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app f (genitive singular appar, plural appir)

  1. (computing) app (for a mobile device)

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f2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative app appin appir appirnar
accusative app appina appir appirnar
dative app appini appum appunum
genitive appar apparinnar appa appanna

French

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Noun

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app m (plural apps)

  1. only used in bon app (“bon appétit”)

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Clipping of applikáció (“application”), from English application.

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Noun

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app (plural appok)

  1. (computing) app, application
    Synonyms: alkalmazás, applikáció

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative app appok
accusative appot appokat
dative appnak appoknak
instrumental appal appokkal
causal-final appért appokért
translative appá appokká
terminative appig appokig
essive-formal appként appokként
essive-modal — —
inessive appban appokban
superessive appon appokon
adessive appnál appoknál
illative appba appokba
sublative appra appokra
allative apphoz appokhoz
elative appból appokból
delative appról appokról
ablative apptól appoktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		appé appoké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		appéi appokéi
Possessive forms of app
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. appom appjaim
2nd person sing. appod appjaid
3rd person sing. appja appjai
1st person plural appunk appjaink
2nd person plural appotok appjaitok
3rd person plural appjuk appjaik

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English app, from application, from Latin applicātiō.

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Noun

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app n (genitive singular apps, nominative plural öpp)

  1. (computing) app (for a mobile device)
    Synonym: smáforrit

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Declension of app (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative app appið öpp öppin
accusative app appið öpp öppin
dative appi appinu öppum öppunum
genitive apps appsins appa appanna

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Italian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from English app.

    Noun

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    app f (invariable)

    1. app

    Ludian

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    Alternative forms

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    • ap (Mundärv, Kompohd')
    • appi (Pühärv)

    Etymology

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    From Proto-Finnic *appi.

    Noun

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    app

    1. father-in-law

    Declension

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    Declension of app (type 3b/plieš, pp-p gradation)
    singular plural
    nominative app apid
    genitive apin appiiden
    partitive appid appiid
    essive apin apiin
    instructive — apiin
    inessive apiš apiiš
    elative apišpiä apiišpiä
    illative appih appiihe
    adessive apil apiil
    ablative apilpiä apiilpiä
    allative apile apiile
    abessive apita apiita
    prolative apiči apiiči
    translative apikš apiikš
    additive appihpiä appiihepiä
    *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

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    • M. Pahomov (2022), “app”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎[1], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 17
    • Juho Kujola (1944), “ap̄”, in Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 10

    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English app.

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    app (Portugal) f or (Brazil) m (plural apps)

    1. (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)

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    Adverb

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    app

    1. (Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of apropo (“by the way”)

    Spanish

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English app (with gender by association with aplicación f).

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    app m or f (plural apps)

    1. (computing) app
      Synonym: aplicación
      • 2019 December 16, “Una app de citas descartará posibles parejas por su ADN”, in El País‎[2]:
        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

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    • 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.
    • Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like app, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el app. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al app, del app.
    This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un app or una app. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).
    However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor app, una buena app.
    • In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
    • The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el app única, un(a) app buena.
    • In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.
    • In practice, this rule is often not followed and the form la app is widely used.

    Further reading

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    • Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “app”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

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    Noun

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    app c

    1. (computing) an app (especially on mobile phones and the like, like in English)
      Synonym: applikation

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    Declension of app
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite app apps
    definite appen appens
    plural indefinite appar appars
    definite apparna apparnas

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    app

    1. 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.

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    Usually repeated.

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