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رَتَّب
to arrange /ˈrat.ta.ba/
verbB1#2758 most common
Also: to organize, to tidy up, to put in order
Example sentences
أُرَتِّبُ غُرْفَتِي.
I arrange my room.
رَتَّبَتْ أُمِّي الطَّاوِلَةَ قَبْلَ الْعَشَاءِ.
My mother arranged the table before dinner.
يَجِبُ أَنْ تُرَتِّبَ كُتُبَكَ عَلَى الرَّفِّ.
You must arrange your books on the shelf.
رَتَّبْنَا خُطَّةَ السَّفَرِ قَبْلَ أَسْبُوعَيْنِ مِنَ الرِّحْلَةِ.
We arranged the travel plan two weeks before the trip.
رَتَّبَتِ الشَّرِكَةُ اجْتِمَاعًا عَاجِلًا لِمُنَاقَشَةِ الْأَزْمَةِ.
The company arranged an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis.
عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ ضِيقِ الْوَقْتِ، اسْتَطَاعَ الْمُنَظِّمُونَ أَنْ يُرَتِّبُوا كُلَّ التَّفَاصِيلِ اللَّوْجِسْتِيَّةِ لِلْمُؤْتَمَرِ بِدِقَّةٍ مُتَنَاهِيَةٍ.
Despite the tight schedule, the organizers managed to arrange every logistical detail of the conference with extreme precision.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُرَتِّبُ | رَتَّبْتُ | سَأُرَتِّبُ |
| 2sg | تُرَتِّبُ | رَتَّبْتَ | سَتُرَتِّبُ |
| 3sg | يُرَتِّبُ | رَتَّبَ | سَيُرَتِّبُ |
| 1pl | نُرَتِّبُ | رَتَّبْنَا | سَنُرَتِّبُ |
| 2pl | تُرَتِّبُونَ | رَتَّبْتُمْ | سَتُرَتِّبُونَ |
| 3pl | يُرَتِّبُونَ | رَتَّبُوا | سَيُرَتِّبُونَ |
Word family
تَرْتِيبarrangement, order
مُرَتَّبarranged; salary (colloquial)
رُتْبَةrank, gradeتَرَتَّبَto result from, to follow (from something)
مُرَتِّبorganizer, arranger
Etymology
رَتَّب comes from the Semitic root ر-ت-ب (r-t-b), which carries the sense of order, rank, or sequence. Arabic builds this verb in Form II, a pattern that doubles the middle root consonant to add a causative or intensive meaning. So رَتَّب literally means to cause something to be in rank or order, which is how it came to mean to arrange or organize.
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