Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ر ت ب (r-t-b)

Derived from the active participle of رَتَّبَ (rattaba, to arrange, to fix a salary for).

Noun edit

مُرَتِّب (murattibm (plural مُرَتِّبُون (murattibūn), feminine مُرَتِّبَة (murattiba))

  1. arranger, consolidator
  2. typesetter, compositor
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Etymology 2 edit

Root
ر ت ب (r-t-b)

Derived from the passive participle of رَتَّبَ (rattaba, to arrange, to fix a salary for).

Adjective edit

مُرَتَّب (murattab) (feminine مُرَتَّبَة (murattaba), masculine plural مُرَتَّبُونَ (murattabūna), feminine plural مُرَتَّبَات (murattabāt))

  1. arranged, consolidated
  2. regular
  3. ready
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Noun edit

مُرَتَّب (murattabm (plural مُرَتَّبَات (murattabāt))

  1. salary, wages
    • 1355 CE, Ibn Battuta, edited by Abd Al-Hādī At-Tāzī, رحلة ابن بطوطة المسماة تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار, volume 4, Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, published 1997, →ISBN, page 41:
      وبهذا المسجد جماعة من الطلبة يتعلمون العلم ولهم مرتبات من مال المسجد، وله مطبخة يصنع فيها الطعام للوارد والصادر ولإطعام الفقراء من المسلمين بها.
      In this mosque also there are a number of students of religious science who receive stipends from its revenue, and it has a kitchen from which all travellers and the poor Muslims of the town are supplied with food.
      Translated by H. A. R. Gibb
  2. (in the plural) regular supplies
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Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic مُرَتَّب (murattab).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? murattaḇ
Dari reading? murattab
Iranian reading? morattab
Tajik reading? murattab

Adjective edit

مُرَتَّب (morattab)

  1. arranged, consolidated
  2. orderly, ordered
  3. regular, continuous

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
ر ت ب
3 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic مُرَتَّب (murattab). Equivalent to the passive participle of رتّب (rattab, to organize, to tidy up).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mrat.tab/, [ˈmrat.tab]
  • (file)

Adjective edit

مرتّب (mrattab) (feminine مرتّبة (mrattabe))

  1. tidy, neat, organized
  2. nice, well put together
    هو ساكن في عمارة كتير مرتّبة.
    hū sāken fi ʕamāra ktīr mrattbe
    He lives in a really nice building.
    بعد ما بلّش يروح عالنادي صار عنده جسم كتير مرتّب.
    baʕd ma ballaš yrūḥ ʕan-nādi ṣār ʕindo jism ktīr mrattab
    After he started going to the gym he started having a really nice body.