frapper

Meaning

1. to hit, to strike, to bash
2. to knock (e.g. on a door)
3. to bang (to get attention)
4. to beat time (as a conductor)
5. to strike (a chord)
6. to strike down
7. to hit (to be affected by a punishment)
8. to strike
9. to shake

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fʁa.pe/

Etymology

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.