قارب

Derived from the active participle of قَرِبَ (qariba, “to approach, to come near or be near, to be connecting or adjacent”). Originally referring to a small boat used by a seaman as a convenient means to approach shore rather than bringing a larger vessel to port.

Alternatively a loan from Latin carabus or Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos) – also found as Classical Syriac ܩܪܒܝܢ – with an uncertain etymology related to beetles and crabs, perhaps originally Semitic; for more see caravel, عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab) and its cognates.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /qaː.rib/
  • (Egypt) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.reb/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /ɡaː.rib/, ,

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قَارِب • (qārib) m (plural قَوَارِب (qawārib))

1. small boat, skiff, dinghy

• → Ottoman Turkish: قارب (karib)

• IPA^(key): /qaː.ra.ba/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /ɡaː.rab/

قَارَبَ • (qāraba) III (non-past يُقَارِبُ (yuqāribu), verbal noun مُقَارَبَة (muqāraba))

1. to be one coming near or close to something, to be an approacher, to be almost at a point

   يدفع ثمن ما يقارب ١٥٠ رحلة في طائرات خاصة.

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2. to try to get closer, to attempt or strive to make something nearer, to attempt to reach or gain access
3. to raise the legs of a woman for the purpose of coitus

Borrowed from Arabic قَارِب (qārib, “small boat, skiff, dingy”).

قارب • (karib) (plural قوارب (kavarib))

1. kind of large boat, a longboat

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قارب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3578
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1410