rapé

See also: rape, râpé, and râpe

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəˈpe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [raˈpe]
• Hyphenation: ra‧pé

Noun

rapé m (plural rapés)

1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of rapè

Portuguese

Rapé

Etymology

From French râpé, past participle of râper.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈpɛ/ [haˈpɛ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈpɛ/ [haˈpɛ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁaˈpɛ/ [χaˈpɛ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɐˈpɛ/

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ra‧pé

Noun

rapé m (plural rapés)

1. snuff (finely ground or pulverised tobacco for sniffing)

Further reading

• “rapé”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈpe/ [raˈpe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ra‧pé

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French râpé.

Noun

rapé m (plural rapés)

1. snuff (finely ground or pulverised tobacco for sniffing)
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 305:

     El hipo cura provocando el estornudo con un poco de rapé o cebadilla.

     Hiccups can be cured by triggering a sneeze with a bit of snuff or sabadilla.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rapé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of rapar

Further reading

• “rapé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• pera, pare, paré