frapper

Signification

to hit, to strike, to bash
to knock (e.g. on a door)
to bang (to get attention)
to beat time (as a conductor)
to strike (a chord)
to strike down
to hit (to be affected by a punishment)
to strike
to shake

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fʁa.pe/

Étymologie

Inherited from Middle French frapper, from Old French fraper, frapper (“to deliver a blow to someone, hit, strike”), from Frankish *hrapōn (“to snatch, scuffle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną, *hrapjaną (“to touch, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krep-, *(s)kreb- (“to scratch, engrave”). Cognate with Old High German hraffōn (“to take over, seize”) (whence German raffen (“to gather up, heap”)), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat”), Old Norse hrappa (“to handle roughly”), North Frisian rippe (“to move, stir”). For the Romance substitution of [fr] for Germanic [xr] compare also freux, froc, frimas, etc.