frapper.
to hit, to strike, to bash
Meaning & usage
to hit, to strike, to bash
Il m'a frappé le bras.
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
frappé par Dieu
to hit (to affect by a punishment)
to strike
frapper l'imagination
to shake
Where this word comes from
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.
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