Apache

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The group of languages used by any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.
• Apache, town Oklahoma (state) USA (country).
• Apache HTTP Server, a widely used open source web server software suite.

Noun

• Any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e., Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.
• A person belonging to an Apache people.
• A Parisian gangster of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• AH-64 Apache, a U.S. military helicopter.

Origin

• From American Spanish apache, most likely from Zuni ˀa˙paču ("Navajos"), or possibly from the Yavapai word ʔpačə, meaning "people".
• The web server software was named to honor the Apache people, although much has been made of the fact that its design was "patchy" (constructed by assembling software patches). See Apache HTTP Server § Name.