apache

See also: Apache and apaché

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

apache (plural apaches)

1. 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)

1. member of the (Parisian) underworld

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.paʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

apache m (uncountable)

1. Apache (language)

Noun

apache m (plural apaches)

1. (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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpa.ʃi/
  • (Porto Alegre) IPA^(key): /aˈpa.ʃe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈpa.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈpa.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈpa.t͡ʃɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʃi, (Portugal) -aʃɨ
• Hyphenation: a‧pa‧che

Noun

apache m or f by sense (plural apaches)

1. Apache (one of the native Apache people of the southwestern United States)
2. Apache (a violent Parisian gangster during the late 19th century and early 20th century)

Noun

apache m (uncountable)

1. Apache (Athabaskan language spoken by the Apache)

Adjective

apache m or f (plural apaches)

1. Apache (of or relating to the Apache people and their culture)
2. Apache (of or relating to the Apache language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpat͡ʃe/ [aˈpa.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: a‧pa‧che

Etymology 1

Noun

apache m or f by sense (plural apaches)

1. Apache
2. jaguarundi (Felis yagouaroundi)

Etymology 2

Verb

apache

1. inflection of apachar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “apache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

References

• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988), A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 579