harper
French, verb/aʁ.pe/
harper is spelled H-A-R-P-E-R (6 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Harper is a French verb meaning “to grasp forcefully” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jouer de la harpe”.
What does harper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grasp forcefully
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jouer de la harpe. 2. Lever une des jambes de derrière plus haut que l’autre sans plier le jarret, en parlant d’un cheval. 3. Faire une harpe, c'est à dire disposer les pierres, les parpaings ou les briques de manière alternée dans un angle. 4. Attraper un poisson avec un harpeau.
verb: 1. Saisir avec la main en agrippant fortement avec les doigts.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of harper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- harpant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- harpé participle past
- harpe first-person indicative present
- harpes indicative present second-person
- harpons first-person indicative plural
- harpez indicative plural present
- harpent indicative plural present
- harpais first-person imperfect indicative
- harpait imperfect indicative singular
- harpions first-person imperfect indicative
- harpiez imperfect indicative plural
- harpaient imperfect indicative plural
- harpai first-person historic indicative
- harpas historic indicative past
- harpa historic indicative past
- harpâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce harper?
- /aʁ.pe/
- ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is harper in French?
harper appears 8.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).