Cognate of English rip, from a West Germanic form *rippen,^[1] ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną, *ruppōną.

• IPA^(key): /riˈpaɾ/

ripar (first-person singular present ripo, first-person singular preterite ripei, past participle ripado)

1. to pluck, to pull out
2. to dress the flax (scratching it with a heckling comb and plucking the seeds)
3. to snatch
4. to scrape together (dough)
5. to cut or pluck the grass of a field, before planting

• ripa (“dough scraper”)
• ripa maseiras (“smooth clam”, literally “dough recipient's scraper”)
• ripanzo, ripeira, ripo (“heckling comb”)
• ripote (“piece of bread prepared with scrapings of dough”)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ripar”, 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), “ripar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “ripar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ripar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowing from English rip + -ar.

• Hyphenation: ri‧par

ripar (first-person singular present ripo, first-person singular preterite ripei, past participle ripado)

1. to rip (all senses)

• “ripar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ripar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026