rapar

Alternative forms

• arrapar

Etymology

From Old Portuguese rapar (“to shave”), probably from Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 (hrapōn), from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb- (“to turn; to touch”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈpaɾ/

Verb

rapar (first-person singular present rapo, first-person singular preterite rapei, past participle rapado)

1. to shave
2. to shear
3. to scrape
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

5. to snatch

References

• “rapar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “rapa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “rapar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “rapar” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “rapar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Old 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

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

Verb

rapar (first-person singular present indicative rapo, past participle rapado)

1. to shave (to remove hair completely)

   Rapei minha barba e meu cabelo.

   I shaved my beard and my hair.

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈpaɾ/

Verb

rapar (first-person singular present rapo, first-person singular preterite rapé, past participle rapado)

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

Noun

rapar

1. indefinite plural of rap

Verb

rapar

1. present tense of rapa.