قَارَبَ drew near to in Arabic
قَارَبَ is how you say “drew near to” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَدْ قَارَبَ اِبْنُ صَيَّادِ الْحُلْمَ
And Ibn Sayyad had almost reached puberty.
قَارَبَ drew near to
A completed past verb, 'he drew near / almost reached', with 'he' inside; this verb-type expresses approaching a threshold. It takes the following noun as the thing approached.
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وَقَدْ قَارَبَ الثَّمانِينَ
He was almost eighty.
قَارَبَ he was nearly
A past-tense verb of nearing/approaching, with its 'he' subject built in and no separate pronoun. It means he came close to a figure rather than reaching it exactly. The verb itself does the work English splits between 'was' and 'almost'.