rapar

Galician

Alternative forms

• arrapar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese rapar (“to shave”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 (*hrapōn), from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb- (“to turn; to touch”). Doublet of rafar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈpaɾ/

Verb

1. to shave

   Synonyms: afeitar, barbear, pelar, rasurar

2. to shear

   Synonym: tosquiar

3. to scrape together dough

   Synonyms: raspar, ripar

4. to level (with the brim)
   • 1412, José García Oro (ed.), Galicia en la Baja Edad Media. Iglesia, señorío y nobleza. Santiago: Bibliófilos Gallegos, page 238:

     que page por esta medida cada lavrador que labrar con dous boys des e oyto medidas arrapadas e o que lavrar con huun boy nove medidas et o que lavrar con amarra tres medidas

     each peasant should pay by this measure: the one ploughing with two oxen, eighteen levelled measures; the one ploughing with one, nine measures; the one ploughing with a hoe, three

   Synonyms: rasar, rebolar

5. to snatch

Derived terms

• rapa
• rapa das bestas
• rapaconas
• rapacús
• rapada
• rapadoira
• rapante

 

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rapa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “rapar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese rapar (“to shave”), from Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 (*hrapōn), from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb- (“to turn; to touch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ˈpa(ɾ)/, -(ɹ)
• IPA^(key): /ha.ˈpa(ɾ)/, -(ɻ)
• IPA^(key): /ʁɐ.ˈpaɾ/
• Homophone: rapá

Verb

1. to shave (remove hair completely)

   Rapei minha barba e meu cabelo. ― I shaved my beard and my hair.

2. to scrape (draw a blade along a surface)

   Synonym: raspar

3. (figurative) to eat everything from a plate or pan

   Estava com tanta fome que rapou a panela. ― He was so hungry that he emptied the pan.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 (*hrapōn, “to pull out”). Cognate with Middle High German raffen, Dutch rapen, English rap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈpaɾ/ [raˈpaɾ]

Verb

1. to shave

   Synonym: afeitar

2. to crop
3. (colloquial) to rob, steal

   Synonyms: hurtar, robar

Related terms

• rape

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Swedish

Noun

rapar

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of rap

Verb

rapar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of rapa.

Anagrams

• parar