Arabic vocabulary
قَارَبَdrew near to
How to say “drew near to” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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.
From: A Night with the Companions →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'.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →
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