ripar

Galician

Tools for dressing the flax

Etymology

Cognate of English rip, from a West Germanic form *rippen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈpaɾ/

Verb

1. to pluck, to pull out.
2. to dress the flax (scratching it with a heckling comb and plucking the seeds).
3. to snatch.
4. to scrape together (dough).
5. to cut or pluck the grass of a field, before planting.

Derived terms

• ripa (“dough scraper”)
• ripa maseiras (“smooth clam”, literally “dough recipient's scraper”)
• ripanzo, ripeira, ripo (“heckling comb”)
• ripote (“piece of bread prepared with scrapings of dough”)

References

• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ripar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English rip.

Verb

1. to rip (all senses)