Apple

See also: apple and äpple

English

Etymology

From apple. As a surname, also an Americanized form of Appel or Apfel.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ă'pəl, IPA^(key): /ˈæ.pəl/
• Rhymes: -æpəl
• Homophone: apple
• Hyphenation: Ap‧ple

Proper noun

Apple (countable and uncountable, plural Apples)

1. (with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
2. (trademark) A company/corporation.
   1. The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
   2. A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.
      • 2016 March 13, “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, via HBO:

        Listen, Apple’s not perfect. You need proof? We made the Newton. We made that one Mac that looks like a toaster. We actually thought the Apple Watch was cool.
        Wait, this isn’t cool?
        Oh, fuck no.
        Shit!
        We put a YouTube album on your phones. You know, the one you’ve been struggling to delete. That thing keeps coming back, huh? And we can’t even make out battery last more than, like, a day!

3. (rare, countable) A female given name from English.
4. (countable) A surname.

Derived terms

• Apple scruff

 

Translations

Apple Inc.

• Arabic: أَبْل (ar) m (ʔabl)
• Armenian: Էփլ (Ēpʻl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘋果公司／苹果公司 (Píngguǒ gōngsī)

• Georgian: Apple, ეფლი (epli)
• German: Apple (de)
• Hindi: ऍपल (ĕpal)
• Japanese: アップル (ja) (Appuru)
• Korean: 애플 (Aepeul)
• Nahuatl: Apple Computer
• Navajo: Ákáʼátʼįįł
• Persian: اپل (fa) (apel)
• Portuguese: Apple (pt) f
• Russian: Э́пл f (Épl)
• Turkish: Apple
• Welsh: Apple m

Noun

Apple (plural Apples)

1. A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.
   • 1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy):

     Arthur bought the Apple anyway. Over a few days he also acquired some astronomical software, plotted the movements of stars, drew rough little diagrams of how he seemed to remember the stars to have been […]

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Apple is the 5,050^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,948 individuals. Apple is most common among White (89.45%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Appel, appel, pepla

Cebuano

Etymology

From English apple.

Noun

Apple

1. a female given name

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Apple.

Chinese

Etymology

From English Apple.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ep¹ pou²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ep¹ pou²
    • Yale: colloquial sounds not defined
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ep⁷ pou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: éb¹ pou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛːp̚⁵ pʰou̯³⁵/

Proper noun

Apple

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Apple.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.pol/
• Rhymes: -ɛppol

Proper noun

Apple ?

1. Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Apple. Doublet of jabłko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛpl/
• Rhymes: -ɛpl
• Syllabification: Apple

Proper noun

Apple m inan

1. Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)

Declension

Declension of Apple

	singular
nominative	Apple
genitive	Apple'a
dative	Apple'owi
accusative	Apple
instrumental	Apple'em
locative	Apple'u
vocative	Apple

Further reading

• Apple in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Apple.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.pow/ [ˈɛ.poʊ̯], (usually proscribed, but common) /ˈej.pow/ [ˈeɪ̯.poʊ̯]

Proper noun

Apple f

1. Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)

Spanish

Proper noun

Apple

1. Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)