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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æp/
• (US) IPA^(key): [?æ?p?]
• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Shortening of application.

Noun

app (plural apps)

1. (computing, mobile telephony) An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
2. (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.

3. (education, informal) application (to a college etc.)

Hyponyms

Related terms

• app service

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening of appetizer.

Noun

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 […]

   • 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)

1. (sports) an appearance in a game (e.g., a player with 10 apps in a season played 10 times)

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Anagrams

• PAP, PPA, pap

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English app.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ap/

Noun

app f (plural apps)

1. app

   Synonyms: aplicació mòbil, apli

Further reading

• “app” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2021.

Danish

Etymology

From English app, shortened from application.

Noun

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

1. (computing) app

Synonyms

• applikation
• mobilapp

Derived terms

• appudvikler
• mobilapp

Declension

References

• “app” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English app. The sense message sent using an app is influenced by the app name WhatsApp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p/
• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

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

1. an app

2. (typically in the diminutive) a text message sent using an app

Derived terms

• appen
• appgroep
• groepsapp

Faroese

Etymology

From English app, from application, from Latin applic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?p?/

  Rhymes: -a?p?

Noun

app f (genitive singular appar, plural appir)

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

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??p?]
• Hyphenation: app
• Rhymes: -?p?

Noun

app (plural appok)

1. (computing) app, application

   Synonyms: alkalmazás, applikáció

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From English app, from application, from Latin applic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ahp/

  Rhymes: -ahp

Noun

app n (genitive singular apps, nominative plural öpp)

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

Declension

Synonyms

• smáforrit

Italian

Noun

app f (invariable)

1. app

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *appi.

Noun

app

1. father-in-law

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English app or a clipping of aplicação / aplicativo.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [??.pi]

Noun

app f or m (in variation) (plural apps)

1. (computing) app (small computer application)

   Synonyms: aplicação, (Brazil) aplicativo

Further reading

• “app” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From English app.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap/, [?ap]

Noun

app f (plural apps)

1. (computing) app

   Synonym: aplicación

Usage notes

• The feminine noun app is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el app

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.
• In practice, this rule is often not followed and the form la app is widely used.

English

Alternative forms

• get

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: ghit (one pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Middle English get (“[illegitimate] offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget.

Noun

git (plural gits)

1. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person (usually a man).
   • 2000 December 18, BBC and Bafta Tribute to Michael Caine, 16:43–17:05:

     Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer.

     Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git.

Usage notes

• Git is usually used as an insult, more severe than twit but less severe than a true profanity like wanker or arsehole, and may often be used affectionately between friends. Get can also be used, with a subtle change of meaning. "You cheeky get!" is slightly less harsh than "You cheeky git!".
• Git is frequently used in conjunction with another word to achieve a more specific meaning. For instance a "smarmy git" refers to a person of a slimy, ingratiating disposition; a "jammy git" would be a person with undeserved luck. The phrase "grumpy old git", denoting a cantankerous old man, is used with particular frequency.
• In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, get is still used in preference to git. In the Republic of Ireland, get, rather than git is used.
• The word has been ruled by the Speaker of the House of Commons to be unparliamentary language.

Translations

Verb

git (third-person singular simple present gitting, present participle got, simple past and past participle gotten)

1. (Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) To get, begone.
2. (Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) To get (leave; scram; begone).

Etymology 2

Noun

git (plural gits)

1. Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)

See also

• git gud

References

Anagrams

• GTi, IGT, tig

Dutch

Etymology

From French jet, or directly from Latin gag?t?s after Ancient Greek ??????? (Gagát?s), from ????? (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”).

Pronunciation

Noun

git n or f (plural gitten, diminutive gitje n)

1. (neuter) lignite
2. (neuter) jet (black, gemstone-like geological material)
3. (masculine) a stone made of this material

Derived terms

• gitzwart (jet-black, the blackest black)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i/

Verb

git

1. Post-1990 spelling of gît. (third-person singular present indicative of gésir)

Latin

Etymology

Compare Hebrew ????? (gad)(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

git n (indeclinable)

1. A plant (Nigella sativa), variously named black cumin, Roman coriander, or melanthion.

References

• git in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• git in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *jit, from Proto-Germanic *jut. Cognate with North Frisian jat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jit/

Pronoun

?it

1. you two (nominative dual form of þ?)

Related terms

• incit
• inc
• incer

Descendants

• Middle English: ?it, ?itt, ?et

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *jit, from Proto-Germanic *jut, remodeled in Proto-Northwest Germanic to *jit by analogy with *wit.

Pronoun

git

1. You two; nominative dual of th?

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From Yiddish ???? (gut), from Old High German guot, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??it/

Interjection

git

1. (colloquial) excellent!

Adjective

git

1. (colloquial) just right

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• git in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• git in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??it/
• Hyphenation: git

Verb

git

1. second-person singular imperative of gitmek

Antonyms

• gitme
• gel

Vilamovian

Noun

git f

1. goodness

Volapük

Noun

git (nominative plural gits)

1. law (body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards)

Declension

Derived terms

• gitav (“jurisprudence”)
• gitavan (“jurist”)
• gitavik (“juristic”)
• gitäd (“judiciary”)
• gität (“right”)
• gitätön (“have the right”)
• gitik (“juridicial”)
• gitod (“justification”)
• gitöf (“legitimacy”)
• gitöfik (“legitimate”)