rapar

• arrapar

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”).^[1] Doublet of rafar.

• IPA^(key): /raˈpaɾ/

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

1. to shave

   Synonyms: afeitar, barbear, pelar, rasurar

2. to shear

   Synonym: tosquiar

3. to scrape together dough

   Synonyms: raspar, ripar

4. 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 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
   • 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 ferrado

     in 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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “rapar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “rapa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

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”).

• (Brazil) Homophone: rapá

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

1. to shave (remove hair completely)

   Synonym: raspar

   Rapei minha barba e meu cabelo. ― I shaved my beard and my hair.

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

   Synonym: raspar

3. (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.

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

From Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 (*hrapōn, “to pull out”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną (“to seize”).

Cognate with Middle High German raffen, Dutch rapen, English rap.

• IPA^(key): /raˈpaɾ/ [raˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ra‧par

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

1. to shave hair (on someone's head)
2. (colloquial, Spain) to shave a beard

   Synonym: afeitar

3. to crop
4. (colloquial) to rob, steal

   Synonyms: hurtar, robar

5. (Dominican Republic) to have sex

   Synonym: singar (Dominican Republic), joder

• Rapar is a false friend and does not mean to rape. The Spanish word for to rape is violar.

• “rapar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

rapar

1. indefinite plural of rap

rapar

1. present indicative of rapa

• parar