rapar
Portuguese, verb/ʁaˈpa(ʁ)/
rapar is spelled R-A-P-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 54,308th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rapar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shave (remove hair completely)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desgastar ou tirar raspando”.
What does rapar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shave (remove hair completely)
Rapei minha barba e meu cabelo.
- 2
to scrape (draw a blade along a surface)
- 3
to eat everything from a plate or pan
Estava com tanta fome que rapou a panela.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desgastar ou tirar raspando 2. roçar 3. cortar rente
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rapar
- rapo first-person present singular
- rapei first-person preterite singular
- rapado participle past
- rapares infinitive second-person singular
- raparmos first-person infinitive plural
- rapardes infinitive plural second-person
- raparem infinitive plural third-person
- rapando gerund
- rapados masculine participle past
- rapada feminine participle past
- rapadas feminine participle past
- rapas indicative present second-person
- rapa indicative present singular
- rapamos first-person indicative plural
- rapais indicative plural present
- rapam indicative plural present
- rapava first-person imperfect indicative
- rapavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rapar?
- Brazil /ʁaˈpa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [haˈpa(h)]
- /ʁaˈpa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rapar in Portuguese?
rapar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).