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راتِب
salary /ˈraː.tib/
nounB1#2454 most common
Also: stipend, wage, fixed pay
Example sentences
راتِبي جَيِّدٌ.
My salary is good.
يَستَلِمُ أَبي راتِبَهُ كُلَّ شَهرٍ.
My father receives his salary every month.
أُريدُ زِيادَةً في راتِبي هذا العامَ.
I want a raise in my salary this year.
تَأَخَّرَ صَرفُ الرَواتِبِ بِسَبَبِ مَشاكِلَ ماليَّةٍ.
The payment of salaries was delayed because of financial problems.
يُطالِبُ المُوَظَّفونَ بِرَبطِ الرَواتِبِ بِمُعَدَّلِ التَضَخُّمِ.
Employees are demanding that salaries be tied to the inflation rate.
أَقَرَّتِ الحُكومَةُ جَدوَلاً جَديداً لِلرَواتِبِ يُراعي التَفاوُتَ بَينَ القِطاعَينِ العامِّ والخاصِّ.
The government approved a new salary schedule that accounts for the gap between the public and private sectors.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | راتِبٌ | رَواتِبُ |
| Genitive | راتِبٍ | رَواتِبَ |
| Accusative | راتِباً | رَواتِبَ |
| Vocative | يا راتِبُ | يا رَواتِبُ |
Word family
مُرَتَّبsalary (common in Egyptian/Levantine dialects)
تَرتيبarrangement, order
رَتَّبَto arrange, organize, tidy
رَتيبmonotonous, routine
مَرتَبةrank, level (also: mattress)
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ر-ت-ب (r-t-b), which carries the sense of fixed order, arrangement, or steadiness. The classical verb رَتَبَ meant to be firmly established or constant. راتِب began as an active-participle form of that verb, meaning roughly 'fixed' or 'steady,' and over time it narrowed to mean a fixed, regular payment: a salary. This shift from 'steady' to 'salary' mirrors how English speakers talk about a 'fixed income.'
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