Where does “API” come from?

API (Portuguese) comes from English Api, from Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི.

API (Portuguese): API application programming interface

Definitions

  1. API application programming interface

Ancestry of “API”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishApiA mountain of the Himalayas in the western part of Nepal, near the border of Tibet
2Tibetanཨ་ཕྱི—
Every word from Tibetan ཨ་ཕྱི →