Qareeb (करीब)
Often wrongly written as “Kareeb” in Hinglish
Origin: Arabic
Qareeb is an Urdu word, it means “near, adjacent, akin, approaching” in English, while in Hindi it’s called as “paas/पास, sata hua/सता हुआ, samaan/समानं, aa raha/आ रहा.”