apache
See also: Apache and apaché
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æʃ
Noun
apache (plural apaches)
- Alternative letter-case form of Apache, a Parisian gangster.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French apache.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˌaːˈpɑ.tʃə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: apa‧che
Noun
apache m (plural apachen or apaches)
- member of the (Parisian) underworld
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.paʃ/
Audio (file)
Noun
apache m (uncountable)
- Apache (language)
Noun
apache m (plural apaches)
- (historical, slang) Apache (gangster)
- 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis:
- Près de moi, un apache chantait tout seul, la tête baissée. Je voyais dans sa manche, sur son poignet, la moitié d’un tatouage. Plus loin, une femme léchait ses doigts englués par une liqueur.
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Descendants
- → Romanian: apaș
Further reading
- “apache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Apaches (voyous) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈpa.ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈpa.ʃe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐˈpa.ʃ(ɨ)/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʃi, (Portugal) -aʃɨ
- Hyphenation: a‧pa‧che
Noun
apache m or f by sense (plural apaches)
- Apache (one of the native Apache people of the southwestern United States)
- Apache (a violent Parisian gangster during the late 19th century and early 20th century)
Noun
apache m (uncountable)
- Apache (Athabaskan language spoken by the Apache)
Adjective
apache m or f (plural apaches)
- Apache (of or relating to the Apache people and their culture)
- Apache (of or relating to the Apache language)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈpat͡ʃe/ [aˈpa.t͡ʃe]
- Rhymes: -atʃe
- Syllabification: a‧pa‧che
Noun
apache m or f (plural apaches)
- Apache
- jaguarundi (Felis yagouaroundi)
Verb
apache
- inflection of apachar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “apache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
References
- Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 579