farpar

Probably from Old French herper, of onomatopoeic or Germanic origin;^[1] in that case, from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną (“scrape”) and doublet of rapar and rafar.

• IPA^(key): /faɾˈpaɾ/ [faɾˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

farpar (first-person singular present farpo, first-person singular preterite farpei, past participle farpado)

1. (archaic) to scrape (hair off a hide)
   • 1459, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, D40a:

     tres espadas et hunas cardas, tres tesoyras de tallar, hun qestello, dous abotoadores, quatro ferros de farpar

     three swords and some cards, three scissor for cutting, a little basket, two buttonhooks, four irons of scraping off

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “farpar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From farpa +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: far‧par

farpar (first-person singular present farpo, first-person singular preterite farpei, past participle farpado)

1. (transitive) to splinter

   Synonym: farpear

2. (transitive) to tatter, to tear to pieces

   Synonyms: esfarrapar, romper

3. (transitive, figurative, colloquial) to throw shade; to snipe

   Synonym: alfinetar

• arame farpado

• farpear

• “farpar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “farpar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “farpar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “farpar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026