قارب

1=قَرَبَ

Derived from the active participle of قَرِبَ (qariba, ““to approach””), from the root ق ر ب (q-r-b) meaning to “come near”, “to approach” or “to journey closer”.[1][2] 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.[2]

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.[3]

• IPA^(key): /qaː.rib/
  • (Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.reb/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /ɡaː.rib/, [ɡaː.rɪb], [qaː.rɪb]

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

1. a small boat, a skiff, a dingy

• → Ottoman Turkish: قارب (karib)

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

قَارَبَ • (qāraba) III, non-past يُقَارِبُ‎ (yuqāribu)

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