مرتب

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

مُرَتِّب • (murattib) m (plural مُرَتِّبُون (murattibūn), feminine مُرَتِّبَة (murattiba))

1. arranger, consolidator
2. typesetter, compositor

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مرتب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

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

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

1. arranged, consolidated
2. regular
3. ready

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مرتب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

مُرَتَّب • (murattab) m (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

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مرتب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Borrowed from Arabic مُرَتَّب (murattab).

مُرَتَّب • (morattab)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /mrat.tab/,

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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.