# rapar
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* arrapar

### Etymology

From 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: /raˈpaɾ/

### Verb

rapar (first-person singular present rapo, first-person singular preterite rapei, past participle rapado)
* to shave
    Synonyms: afeitar, barbear, pelar, rasurar
* to shear
    Synonym: tosquiar
* to scrape together dough
    Synonyms: raspar, ripar
* to level (with the brim)
    Synonyms: rasar, rebolar
** 1412, José García Oro, editor, 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 medidaseach 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
* to snatch
** 1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Aos coruñeses:En certa aldea traballou o ano pasado certo labrador certa porcion de terra: chegada a recolleita foi a segar, e colleu vinte pares de monllos, deles pagou o señor cura duos pares do desmo, pagou nove o señor amo; logo veu o señor cura, e rapoulle cinco polas toucas, quedaronlle catro, mallounos, e non lle deron un ferradoin certain village last year certain farmer farmed certain apportion of land: as the harvest came he went to reap; he collected twenty pairs of sheaves; of them he paid two pairs to the priest for the tithe, nine he paid to the landlord; then the priest came again and snatched five for the ecclesiastical services; he was left with four; he threshed them and obtained less than half a bushel

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

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

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rapar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rapa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rapar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rapar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rapar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “rapar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## 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

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁaˈpa(ʁ)/ [haˈpa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁaˈpa(ʁ)/ [haˈpa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁaˈpa(ɾ)/ [haˈpa(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁaˈpa(ʁ)/ [χaˈpa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁaˈpa(ɻ)/ [haˈpa(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐˈpaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐˈpaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐˈpa.ɾi/
* (Brazil) Homophone: rapá

### Verb

rapar (first-person singular present rapo, first-person singular preterite rapei, past participle rapado)
* to shave (remove hair completely)
    Synonym: raspar
    Rapei minha barba e meu cabelo. ― I shaved my beard and my hair.
* to scrape (draw a blade along a surface)
    Synonym: raspar
* (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.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* rapação
* rapadela
* rapadura

### Further reading

* “rapar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “rapar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raˈpaɾ/ [raˈpaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ra‧par

### Verb

rapar (first-person singular present rapo, first-person singular preterite rapé, past participle rapado)
* to shave hair (on someone's head)
* (colloquial, Spain) to shave a beard
    Synonym: afeitar
* to crop
* (colloquial) to rob, steal
    Synonyms: hurtar, robar
* (Dominican Republic) to have sex
    Synonym: singar (Dominican Republic), joder

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* cabeza rapada

#### Related terms

* rape

### Further reading

* “rapar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

rapar
* indefinite plural of rap

### Verb

rapar
* present indicative of rapa

### Anagrams

* parar