rapar
Spanish, verb/raˈpaɾ/
rapar is spelled R-A-P-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 112,257th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rapar is a Spanish verb meaning “to shave hair (on someone's head)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Eliminar el pelo cortándolo junto a la raíz”.
What does rapar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shave hair (on someone's head)
- 2
Spaincolloquialto shave a beard
- 3
to crop
- 4
colloquialto rob, steal
- 5
to have sex
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Eliminar el pelo cortándolo junto a la raíz 2. Eliminar el vello facial cortándolo desde la raíz 3. Hurtar.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rapar
- rapo first-person present singular
- rapé first-person preterite singular
- rapado participle past
- rapando gerund
- rapada feminine participle past
- rapados masculine participle past
- rapadas feminine participle past
- rapas indicative informal present
- rapás indicative informal present
- rapa indicative present singular
- rapamos first-person indicative plural
- rapáis indicative plural present
- rapan indicative plural present
- rapaba first-person imperfect indicative
- rapabas imperfect indicative second-person
- rapábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- rapabais imperfect indicative plural
- rapaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rapar?
- /raˈpaɾ/
- [raˈpaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rapar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rapar in Spanish?
rapar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).