App

See also: app, APP, and app.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German App.

Proper noun

App (plural Apps)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, App is the 35345^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 637 individuals. App is most common among White (92.94%) individuals.

Etymology 2

Noun

App pl (plural only)

1. Abbreviation of appeals.

Etymology 3

Noun

App (plural Apps)

1. (nonstandard, common in China) Alternative form of app.
2. (in street addresses) Abbreviation of approach.

   10 Station App

3. (rhythmic gymnastics) Abbreviation of apparatus.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “App”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47.

Anagrams

• pap, PPA, Pap, PAP

German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English app.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛp/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: App
• Rhymes: -ɛp

Noun

App f (genitive App, plural Apps)

1. (Internet, mobile telephony) app

   Synonym: Applikation f

Usage notes

• Some reference works list alternative grammatical gender forms (das App n, der App m); in practice the word is treated almost exclusively as feminine, most likely because Applikation is also feminine.

Declension

Declension of App [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	App	die	Apps
genitive	einer	der	App	der	Apps
dative	einer	der	App	den	Apps
accusative	eine	die	App	die	Apps

Derived terms

• Appentwickler m
• Appentwicklung f

Related terms

• Appentwicklerin f (App +‎ Entwicklerin or rather Appentwickler +‎ -in)

Further reading

• “App” in Duden online
• “App”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “App”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–