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رُتْبَة
rank (a fixed grade or position in a hierarchy, especially military or professional) /ˈrut.bah/
nounB2#3438 most common
Also: grade, position (in a hierarchy)
Example sentences
هذه رُتْبَتي في الجيش.
This is my rank in the army.
ما هي رُتْبَتُك؟
What is your rank?
حصل الجندي على رُتْبَة جديدة بعد التدريب.
The soldier got a new rank after training.
تُحدَّد رُتْبَة الموظف حسب سنوات خبرته.
An employee's rank is set by his years of experience.
ارتقى الضابط إلى رُتْبَة عقيد بعد خدمة طويلة.
The officer rose to the rank of colonel after long service.
على الرغم من رُتْبَتِهِ المتواضعة في بداية حياته المهنية، أصبح لاحقًا أحد أبرز القادة في الجيش.
Despite his modest rank at the start of his career, he later became one of the army's most prominent leaders.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | رُتْبَةٌ | رُتَبٌ |
| Genitive | رُتْبَةٍ | رُتَبٍ |
| Accusative | رُتْبَةً | رُتَبًا |
| Vocative | يا رُتْبَةُ | يا رُتَبُ |
Word family
رتّبto arrange, put in order
ترتيبarrangement, order, sequence
مرتبةlevel, standing, degree
رتيبmonotonous, regular
Etymology
رُتْبَة comes from the Arabic root ر ت ب (r-t-b), which carries the sense of being fixed, settled, or set in order. From this root the language built words for arrangement and sequence, and رُتْبَة marks a fixed step within such a sequence, hence its use for a rank or grade. Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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