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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], London: W.H. Allen

Borrowed from Arabic مُرَتَّب (murattab).

مُرَتَّب • (murattab / morattab) (Tajik spelling мураттаб)

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

مرتب • (murattab / morattab) (Tajik spelling мураттаб) (formal)

1. repeatedly, continuously; keep...

   Synonym: (colloquial) هی (hey)

   • 2024 December 22, Ali Khamenei, بیانات در دیدار مداحان اهل‌بیت علیهم‌السلام [bayânât dar didâr-e maddâhân-e ahl-e-beyt aleyhem-os-salâm, Statements made in a meeting with eulogists of the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them)]‎^[4]:

     مرتب می‌گویند که جمهوری اسلامی، نیروهای نیابتی خودش را در منطقه از دست داد؛ این هم یک غلط دیگر. جمهوری اسلامی نیروی نیابتی ندارد.

     morattab miguyand ke jomhuri-ye eslâmi, niru-hâ-ye niyâbati-ye xod-aš râ dar mantaqe az dast dâd; in ham yek ġalat-e digar. jomhuri-ye eslâmi niru-ye niyâbati nadârad.

     They repeatedly state that the Islamic Republic has lost its proxy forces in the region; this is another mistake [of theirs]. The Islamic Republic does not have proxy forces.

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مرتب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “مرتب”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

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

• IPA^(key): /mrat.tab/, [ˈmrat.tab]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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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.