frapper
French
verb
Definitions
- to hit, to strike, to bash
- to knock (e.g. on a door)
- to bang (to get attention)
- (music) to beat time (as a conductor)
- (music) to strike (a chord)
- to strike down
- to hit to be affected by a punishment
- (figuratively) to strike
- (bartending) to shake
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French frapper inherited from Old French fraper derived from Frankish *hrapōn (snatch, jerk, scuffle) derived from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną (scrape, scratch, seize) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krep-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)krep-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Raffgier German
- Raffsucht German
- Raffzahn German
- dahinraffen German
- frappieren German
- hinwegraffen German
- raffen German
- verraffen German
- zusammenraffen German
- frappeur French
- frappé French
- surfrapper French
- *(s)kreb(h)- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kreb- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)krep- Proto-Indo-European
- *hrappijaną Proto-Germanic
- *hrapōną Proto-Germanic
- hreppan Old English
- skrafa Old Norse
- fraper Old French
- harper Old French
- herper Old French
- frapi Esperanto
- frapo Esperanto
- okulfrapa Esperanto
- rafa Galician
- rafar Galician
- raffen Middle High German
- frapper Middle French
- *𐌷𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 Gothic
- *𐍂𐌰𐍀𐍉𐌽 Gothic
- *rapon Old Dutch
- *hrapōn Frankish
- *raffolōn Frankish
- flapön Volapük
- frape Haitian, Haitian Creole