taqriban

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban), adverbial accusative of تَقْرِيب (taqrīb). By surface analysis, taqrib +‎ -an. Compare Uyghur تەقرىبەن (teqriben), Azerbaijani təqribən and Turkish takriben.

Adverb

taqriban

  1. nearly, approximately