# rap
## Translingual
### Symbol

rap
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Rapa Nui.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Rapa Nui terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹæp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æp
* Homophone: wrap

### Etymology 1

From Middle English rap, rappe, of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian rapp (“a blow, strike, lash”), Swedish rapp (“a blow, lash, crack”), Danish rap (“a tap, smart, blow”). Compare Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”). More at rape.

#### Noun

rap (countable and uncountable, plural raps)
* (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
** 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.
** 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter II, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
** 1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187:The author (obviously a naturalist of no mean order) received an official rap over the knuckles for trespassing, and for encouraging others to do so. Evidently the instigator of this reprimand had not visited the railway in blackberry time!
* (slang, with definite article) The blame for something.
    Synonyms: blame, fall
    You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap.
* (informal) A casual talk.
** 1979 April 14, “Calendar”, in Gay Community News, page 16:Clearspace is holding a bisexuality rap at the center, 485 Mass Ave. 7:30pm. Topic of discussion will be femininity and masculinity.
* (music, uncountable) Rap music.
    They like listening to rap.
* A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
* (Australia, informal) An appraisal.
    a good/great/bad rap
* (Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
    He gave the novel quite a rap.

##### Derived terms

* backpack rap
* bad rap
* beat the rap
* bum rap
* cloud rap
* conscious rap
* country rap
* emo rap
* gangsta rap
* gangster rap
* jazz rap
* Memphis rap
* mumble rap
* progressive rap
* proto-rap
* rap back
* rap group
* rap-like
* rap metal
* rap music
* rap rock
* rap someone's knuckles
* rap song
* SoundCloud rap
* take the rap

##### Descendants

* → Dutch: raps
** ⇒ Dutch: rapsen
* → Finnish: rap
* → German: Rap
* → Macedonian: рап (rap)

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English rappen, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish rappa (“to strike, beat, rap”), German rappeln (“to rattle”).

#### Verb

rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)
* (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
** 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review‎, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
** 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter II, in The House Behind the Cedars:He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
* (transitive, dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
** 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove:With one great peal they rap the door.
* (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
* To utter quickly and sharply.
    The sergeant rapped out a word of command to the troops.
* (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
    He started to rap after listening to Tupac.
    He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
** 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎:But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
* (informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
** 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 129:Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.
** 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 432:Louie said, "I dig this Theo. I'm gonna learn Swahili and rap with him."
** 1980 April 12, Mike Sassin, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:Got your address from NGTF, I could dig some mail and friends. I'll be released in July of '80, am 24, and like chess, body building, people and of course letters. Nice rapping to you.

##### Synonyms

* (strike something sharply with one's knuckles): knock, noogie

##### Derived terms

* rap and rend
* rap at
* rap on
* rapper

##### Translations
#### See also

* emcee
* hip-hop

### Etymology 3

Uncertain.

#### Noun

rap (plural raps)
* A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
** 1762, The Statutes at Large (Great Britain), page 386:[…] and that every hank or skein that shall be used as a binder to tie up or bind together any pound or parcel of yarn shall contain the same number of threads in a rap or lea, and the same number of raps or leas as the other hanks or skeins in the said pound or parcel.
** 1881, Alfred Spitzli, A Manual for Managers, Designers, Weavers, and All Others, page 22:At each rap the reel was moved slightly to one side, so that the next rap was wound separately, and so on until seven raps had been made, then the seven raps were made up into one hank, […]
** 1885, Thomas Rotherforth Ashenhurst, A practical treatise on weaving and designing of textile fabrics:Thus, a rap may be reeled (of cotton or silk 120 yards, of worsted 80 yards), then as one rap is equal to one-seventh of a hank, 1000 grains will be equal to the one-seventh of a pound, so that whatever part of 1000 grains one rap weighs, or whatever number of raps are required to weigh1000 grains, that number of hanks will weigh one pound.
** 1888, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Manchester Meeting, 1887 on the Regulation of Wages by Means of Lists in the Cotton Industry., page 19:The yarn rap reel is 1½ yard in circumference; 80 rounds or 120 yards make one rap; 7 raps or 840 yards one bank. In 1 lb. of cotton yarn there are 7,000 grains. When one rap weighs 1,000 grains, or seven raps 7,000 grains, the yarn is one hank to the pound, and when ten raps weigh 350 grains it is 28.57 hanks to the pound.
** 1913, How to Build, Equip and Operate a Cotton Mill in the United States, page 408:Rule to find constant for beams: Multiply the number of yards in one rap by the number of ends in the beam, and by the number of raps on the beam and divide by 840.

### Etymology 4

Perhaps contracted from rapparee.

#### Noun

rap (plural raps)
* (historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
** 1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1:Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
** 1886, Mrs. Alexander, Beaton's Bargain:Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent.
* A whit; a jot.
    I don't care a rap.
    That's not worth a rap.

### Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Scand., as Ice. hrapa, to rush headlong, cog. with Ger. raffen, to snatch.”)

#### Verb

rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped or rapt)
* (transitive) To seize and carry off.
* (transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

### Etymology 6

From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”).

#### Noun

rap (plural raps)
* (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
    Synonym: RAP
* (countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
** 2014, James Neal Harvey, Mental Case:We got one maybe ID, but when we checked, we found out the suspect's been in Rikers for a year on a drug rap.

##### Derived terms

* murder rap
* rap sheet

### Etymology 7

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

rap (third-person singular simple present raps, present participle rapping, simple past and past participle rapped)
* to rappel

##### Derived terms

* rap down
* rap jumping

#### See also

* rap-full (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* APR, ARP, Apr, Apr., Arp, PAR, PRA, Par, RPA, apr, arp, par

## Acehnese
### Adjective

rap
* near

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Basque
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rap, from English rap.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rap/, [rap]

### Noun

rap inan
* rap music

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “rap”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

## Catalan
### Etymology

Uncertain. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrap]

### Noun

rap m (plural raps)
* monkfish

#### Hyponyms

* rap vermell

### Further reading

* “rap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rap, from Middle English rap, rappe, of North Germanic origin.

### Noun

rap
* rap music
* a song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music

### Verb

rap
* to rap; to perform a rap

## Danish
### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

rap
* quack (imitating the sound of a duck)

### Etymology 2

Of North Germanic and ultimately imitative origin; compare with Swedish rappa (“drub, beat, hit”).

#### Noun

rap n (indefinite plural rap)
* a strike intended to motivate someone to do something (e.g. for punishment or to spur on an animal)
** 2008, Bitten Clausen - historier fra et liv, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 14:Hvis man ikke kunne sit stof, fik man et rap med stokken.If one did not know the material, one was given a strike with the cane.
** 1841, Frederik Barfod, Brage og idun: et nordisk fjærdingårsskrift, page 346:Skriftefaderen giver den Skriftende et Par Rap med sin Stok for hans Synders Skyld.The confessor gives the confessing one a couple of strikes with his cane for the sake of his sins.
** 2016, Orla Narvedsen, Kaptajnens Åse, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:Kusken svarede med et Grynt, tog Pisken og gav Hestene et Par Rap af den.The coachdriver replied with a grunt, seized the whip and gave the horses a couple of strikes with it.

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

rap (neuter rapt, plural and definite singular attributive rappe, comparative rappere, superlative (predicative) rappest, superlative (attributive) rappeste)
* quick, rapid
** 2010, Jette A. Kaarsbøl, Din næstes hus: roman, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 332:Et øjeblik stod jeg og ledte efter et rapt svar.For a moment, I stood searching for a quick reply.
** 2016, Kåre Johannessen, Kejserhøgen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:“Motorcykler, der kan man bare se. Det er ellers nogle rappe maskiner. Har du kørt selv?““Motor bikes, will you look at that. Those are indeed some fast machines. Have you driven them yourself?“
** 2016, Kenneth Bøgh Andersen, Himmelherren, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:Han var også tyveknægten, der ikke ejede andet end en skarpsleben lommekniv, nogle rappe fingre, en god portion vovemod og et frækt sindelag.He was also the thief-boy, who owned nothing but a sharply-ground pocket-knife, some quick fingers, a large portion of daring and a mischievous disposition.

##### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

rap
* imperative of rappe

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

rap
* imperative of rappe

## Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch rap, probably derived from rapen (Dutch rapen) which originally also meant "to make haste"; compare reppen and also Old Norse hrapa.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɑp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑp

#### Adjective

rap (comparative rapper, superlative rapst)
* quick, fast
    Synonyms: snel, vlug, rad, kwiek, gezwind, ras
    Kom eens heel rap hier!Get over here real fast!

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From English rap.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛp/ (Netherlands), IPA: /rɑp/ (Belgium) or as in English
* Audio:(file) (Netherlands), Audio:(file) (Belgium)
* Rhymes: -ɛp (Netherlands), Rhymes: -ɑp (Belgium)

#### Noun

rap m (uncountable)
* rap music

##### Derived terms

* rapmuziek
* rappen

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rap.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɑp/, [ˈrɑ̝p]
* IPA: /ˈræp/, [ˈræp]
* Rhymes: -ɑp
* Hyphenation: rap

### Noun

rap
* rap, rap music

#### Usage notes

As the word "rap" does not sit well in Finnish grammatic structure, the term räppi is widely used. Also the compound form rap-musiikki is quite common.

#### Declension

Possessive forms of rap (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapini
rapini
accusative
nom.
rapini
rapini
gen.
rapini
genitive
rapini
rapieni
partitive
rapiani
rapejani
inessive
rapissani
rapeissani
elative
rapistani
rapeistani
illative
rapiini
rapeihini
adessive
rapillani
rapeillani
ablative
rapiltani
rapeiltani
allative
rapilleni
rapeilleni
essive
rapinani
rapeinani
translative
rapikseni
rapeikseni
abessive
rapittani
rapeittani
instructive
comitative
—rapeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapisi
rapisi
accusative
nom.
rapisi
rapisi
gen.
rapisi
genitive
rapisi
rapiesi
partitive
rapiasi
rapejasi
inessive
rapissasi
rapeissasi
elative
rapistasi
rapeistasi
illative
rapiisi
rapeihisi
adessive
rapillasi
rapeillasi
ablative
rapiltasi
rapeiltasi
allative
rapillesi
rapeillesi
essive
rapinasi
rapeinasi
translative
rapiksesi
rapeiksesi
abessive
rapittasi
rapeittasi
instructive
comitative
—rapeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapimme
rapimme
accusative
nom.
rapimme
rapimme
gen.
rapimme
genitive
rapimme
rapiemme
partitive
rapiamme
rapejamme
inessive
rapissamme
rapeissamme
elative
rapistamme
rapeistamme
illative
rapiimme
rapeihimme
adessive
rapillamme
rapeillamme
ablative
rapiltamme
rapeiltamme
allative
rapillemme
rapeillemme
essive
rapinamme
rapeinamme
translative
rapiksemme
rapeiksemme
abessive
rapittamme
rapeittamme
instructive
comitative
—rapeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapinne
rapinne
accusative
nom.
rapinne
rapinne
gen.
rapinne
genitive
rapinne
rapienne
partitive
rapianne
rapejanne
inessive
rapissanne
rapeissanne
elative
rapistanne
rapeistanne
illative
rapiinne
rapeihinne
adessive
rapillanne
rapeillanne
ablative
rapiltanne
rapeiltanne
allative
rapillenne
rapeillenne
essive
rapinanne
rapeinanne
translative
rapiksenne
rapeiksenne
abessive
rapittanne
rapeittanne
instructive
comitative
—rapeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapinsa
rapinsa
accusative
nom.
rapinsa
rapinsa
gen.
rapinsa
genitive
rapinsa
rapiensa
partitive
rapiaan rapiansa
rapejaan rapejansa
inessive
rapissaan rapissansa
rapeissaan rapeissansa
elative
rapistaan rapistansa
rapeistaan rapeistansa
illative
rapiinsa
rapeihinsa
adessive
rapillaan rapillansa
rapeillaan rapeillansa
ablative
rapiltaan rapiltansa
rapeiltaan rapeiltansa
allative
rapilleen rapillensa
rapeilleen rapeillensa
essive
rapinaan rapinansa
rapeinaan rapeinansa
translative
rapikseen rapiksensa
rapeikseen rapeiksensa
abessive
rapittaan rapittansa
rapeittaan rapeittansa
instructive
comitative
—rapeineen rapeinensa :
Possessive forms of rap (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapini
rapini
accusative
nom.
rapini
rapini
gen.
rapini
genitive
rapini
rapieni
partitive
rapiäni
rapejäni
inessive
rapissäni
rapeissäni
elative
rapistäni
rapeistäni
illative
rapiini
rapeihini
adessive
rapilläni
rapeilläni
ablative
rapiltäni
rapeiltäni
allative
rapilleni
rapeilleni
essive
rapinäni
rapeinäni
translative
rapikseni
rapeikseni
abessive
rapittäni
rapeittäni
instructive
comitative
—rapeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapisi
rapisi
accusative
nom.
rapisi
rapisi
gen.
rapisi
genitive
rapisi
rapiesi
partitive
rapiäsi
rapejäsi
inessive
rapissäsi
rapeissäsi
elative
rapistäsi
rapeistäsi
illative
rapiisi
rapeihisi
adessive
rapilläsi
rapeilläsi
ablative
rapiltäsi
rapeiltäsi
allative
rapillesi
rapeillesi
essive
rapinäsi
rapeinäsi
translative
rapiksesi
rapeiksesi
abessive
rapittäsi
rapeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—rapeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapimme
rapimme
accusative
nom.
rapimme
rapimme
gen.
rapimme
genitive
rapimme
rapiemme
partitive
rapiämme
rapejämme
inessive
rapissämme
rapeissämme
elative
rapistämme
rapeistämme
illative
rapiimme
rapeihimme
adessive
rapillämme
rapeillämme
ablative
rapiltämme
rapeiltämme
allative
rapillemme
rapeillemme
essive
rapinämme
rapeinämme
translative
rapiksemme
rapeiksemme
abessive
rapittämme
rapeittämme
instructive
comitative
—rapeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapinne
rapinne
accusative
nom.
rapinne
rapinne
gen.
rapinne
genitive
rapinne
rapienne
partitive
rapiänne
rapejänne
inessive
rapissänne
rapeissänne
elative
rapistänne
rapeistänne
illative
rapiinne
rapeihinne
adessive
rapillänne
rapeillänne
ablative
rapiltänne
rapeiltänne
allative
rapillenne
rapeillenne
essive
rapinänne
rapeinänne
translative
rapiksenne
rapeiksenne
abessive
rapittänne
rapeittänne
instructive
comitative
—rapeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
rapinsä
rapinsä
accusative
nom.
rapinsä
rapinsä
gen.
rapinsä
genitive
rapinsä
rapiensä
partitive
rapiään rapiänsä
rapejään rapejänsä
inessive
rapissään rapissänsä
rapeissään rapeissänsä
elative
rapistään rapistänsä
rapeistään rapeistänsä
illative
rapiinsä
rapeihinsä
adessive
rapillään rapillänsä
rapeillään rapeillänsä
ablative
rapiltään rapiltänsä
rapeiltään rapeiltänsä
allative
rapilleen rapillensä
rapeilleen rapeillensä
essive
rapinään rapinänsä
rapeinään rapeinänsä
translative
rapikseen rapiksensä
rapeikseen rapeiksensä
abessive
rapittään rapittänsä
rapeittään rapeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—rapeineen rapeinensä :

#### Synonyms

* räppi

#### Derived terms

* rap-musiikki
* rapmusiikki

#### Related terms

* räpätä
* räppäri

### Further reading

* “rap”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## French
### Etymology

From English rap.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁap/
* Homophones: wrap, râpe

### Noun

rap m (uncountable)
* rap; rap music

### Anagrams

* par

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From English rap.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrɛp]
* Rhymes: -ɛp

### Noun

rap (plural rapek)
* (music) rap

#### Declension
## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Low Prussian Râp.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrap/
* Rhymes: -ap
* Syllabification: rap

### Noun

rap m animal
* (archaic) black horse
* Tatar horse
    Synonym: bachmat
* huge herring

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “kary, bachmat”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “kary, bachmat”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “rap”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Middle English
### Noun

rap
* Alternative form of rop (“rope”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

rap n (definite singular rapet, indefinite plural rap, definite plural rapa or rapene)
* A burp; belch.

#### Related terms

* rape

### Verb

rap
* imperative of rape

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós (“strap, band, rope”). Compare Old Frisian rāp (West Frisian reap), Old Dutch reip, rēp (Dutch reep), Old High German reif (German Reif).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɑːp/

### Noun

rāp m
* rope

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Related terms

* rǣpan
* rǣping
* rǣpling
* rāpincel
* stiġrāp

#### Descendants

* Middle English: rop, rap, rope, roop, roope
** English: rope, roap, roape
*** → Irish: rópa
*** Tok Pisin: rop
** Scots: raip
** → Old French: rap

## Old French
### Etymology 1

Deverbal of Latin rapiō.

#### Noun

rap oblique singular, m (oblique plural ras, nominative singular ras, nominative plural rap) (Anglo-Norman)
* violent seizure
* abduction
* rape (unlawful sexual penetration)

##### Descendants

* English: rape

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Early Middle English rap, from Old English rāp.

#### Noun

rap oblique singular, m (oblique plural ras, nominative singular ras, nominative plural rap) (Anglo-Norman)
* rope

### References

* rap on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* *rēp

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *raip. Cognates include Old English rāp and Old Saxon *rēp.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraːp/

### Noun

rāp m
* rope

#### Descendants

* North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: riap
    Halligen: reep
    Mooring: ruup
    Wiedingharde: ruup
* Saterland Frisian: Roop
* West Frisian: reap

#### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrap/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ap
* Syllabification: rap
* Homophones: rab, Rab, wrap

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English rap.

#### Noun

rap m inan (related adjective rapowy)
* rap music

##### Related terms

* raperski
* raper
* raperka
* rapować impf
* zarapować pf

### Etymology 2

Perhaps borrowed from German Rapfen. Doublet of rapa.

#### Noun

rap m animal
* asp (Aspius aspius, syn. Leuciscus aspius)
    Synonyms: boleń, boleń pospolity, chwat, rapa

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

rap f
* genitive plural of rapa

### Further reading

* rap I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* rap II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* rap in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* rap in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rap.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.pi/ [ˈhɛ.pi], /ˈʁɛp/ [ˈhɛp]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.pi/ [ˈhɛ.pi], /ˈʁɛp/ [ˈhɛp]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.pi/ [ˈχɛ.pi], /ˈʁɛp/ [ˈχɛp]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛp/ [ˈhɛp], /ˈʁɛ.pi/ [ˈhɛ.pi]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɛp/

### Noun

rap m (plural raps)
* rap music (music genre)
    Synonym: hip hop

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rap.

### Noun

rap n (uncountable)
* (music) rap

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rap.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrap/ [ˈrap]
* Rhymes: -ap
* Syllabification: rap

### Noun

rap m (plural raps)
* rap (music genre)

#### Related terms

* rap metal
* rapper

### Further reading

* “rap”, 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

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rap.

### Noun

rap class IX (plural rap class X)
* (music) rap, rap music

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

Back-formation of rapa (“to belch”), from Old Swedish rapa. Cognate with Norwegian rape (“to belch”).

#### Noun

rap c
* a burp, a belch

##### See also

* rapa

### Etymology 2

From English rap.

#### Noun

rap c
* (uncountable) rap music

##### Declension
### References

* rap in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* rap in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* rap in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* apr, par