farrapo

Cognate with Portuguese farrapo, Spanish harapo and French friper; from farpar or harpar "to tear", ultimately of onomatopoeic or Germanic origin.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /faˈrapo̝/

farrapo m (plural farrapos)

1. tatter; rag

   Synonyms: galdrapo, milfo, trapo

   • 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:

     Estóu debendo na tenda
     A chamarra que hoje trago
     E o somonte dos calzós
     Que ja estan feitos farrapos;

     I owe to the shop
     the coat I wear today
     and the cloth of the pants,
     which are already in tatters

2. carpet or blanket made of clean rags
3. (usually in the plural) cord (of a bagpipe)

   Synonyms: farrapos de gaita, flocos

4. snowflake

• esfarrapar
• farrapa
• farrapeiro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “farrapo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “farrapo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “farrapo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From or related to Old Spanish harpar, from Old French harper (“to forcefully grasp”).

• Hyphenation: far‧ra‧po

farrapo m (plural farrapos)

1. tatter; rag (piece of old, tattered cloth)

   Synonyms: frangalho, trapo

2. rags (tattered clothes)
3. a person who wears rags; a shabby person; ragamuffin

   Synonyms: farrapão, farrapeiro, farrapilha, maltrapilho

4. (Brazil, historical) a participant in the Farroupilha Revolution

   Synonym: farroupilha

• farrapinho (diminutive), farrapozinho (diminutive)
• farrapão (augmentative)

farrapo (feminine farrapa, masculine plural farrapos, feminine plural farrapas, not comparable)

1. (relational) of the Farroupilha Revolution

   Synonyms: farroupilha, farroupilho