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قارِب

boat /ˈqaː.rib/

nounA2#984 most common

Also: small boat, skiff, dinghy

Example sentences

هٰذا قارِبٌ صَغيرٌ.
This is a small boat.
يوجَدُ قارِبٌ أبيَضُ على الشّاطِئِ.
There is a white boat on the shore.
رَكِبْنا القارِبَ لِنَعبُرَ النَّهرَ إلى القَريةِ.
We took the boat to cross the river to the village.
اِنقَلَبَ القارِبُ بِسَبَبِ الأمواجِ العاليةِ، لٰكِنَّ جَميعَ الرُّكّابِ نَجَوا.
The boat capsized because of the high waves, but all the passengers survived.
لَولا قارِبُ النَّجاةِ الذي أُنزِلَ في اللَّحظةِ الأخيرةِ، لَغَرِقَ البَحّارةُ جَميعُهم.
Had it not been for the lifeboat lowered at the last moment, all the sailors would have drowned.
ظَلَّ القارِبُ المُتهالِكُ يُصارِعُ العاصِفةَ حتّى كادَ يَتلاشى بَينَ زَبَدِ المَوجِ، غَيرَ أنَّ عَزيمةَ صَيّادِهِ العَجوزِ أبَتْ أنْ تَستَسلِمَ.
The battered boat kept fighting the storm until it almost vanished in the foam of the waves, yet its old fisherman's resolve refused to give in.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeقارِبٌقَوارِبُ
Genitiveقارِبٍقَوارِبَ
Accusativeقارِباًقَوارِبَ
Vocativeيا قارِبُيا قَوارِبُ

Word family

قُرْبnearness, proximity
قَريبnear, close; relative
قارَبَto draw near, approximate
اِقْتَرَبَto come near
مُقارَبةapproach, approximation

Etymology

قارِب is the common Arabic word for a small boat or skiff. It is built on the Semitic root q-r-b, which carries the idea of nearness and approaching. The path from that root to the watercraft sense is not transparent, and lexicographers do not agree on how the meaning developed. The boat sense is specific to Arabic, while the root itself is shared widely across Semitic languages.

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