قارب

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ق ر ب (q r b)
15 terms

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]

Pronunciation

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

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قَارِب (qāribm (plural قَوَارِب (qawārib))

  1. a small boat, a skiff, a dingy
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: قارب (karib)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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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
Conjugation
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References

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  1. ^ Sleeswyk, André W. (1998) “Carvel-planking and Carvel Ships in the North οf Europe”, in Archaeonautica[1], volume 14, number 1, pages 223–228; Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[2] (in German), volume 51, page 300; Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 218; Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قارب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[3] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 323

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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قارب (karib) (plural قوارب (kavarib))

  1. kind of large boat, a longboat

Further reading

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