Arabic vocabulary
مَرَاتِبِ is how you say “ranks” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَإِنَّ آخِرَ مَرَاتِبِ الْحُبِّ هُوَ التَّتِيمُ وَأَوَّلُهُ العَلَاقَةُ لِتَعَلُّقِ القَلْبِ بِالْمَحْبُوبِ
So indeed, the final rank of love is orphanhood, and its first is attachment for the attachment of the heart to the beloved.
مَرَاتِب — ranks. A plural noun 'ranks' that both completes one possessive link ('last of the ranks') and heads the next ('ranks of love'). It sits in the genitive and chains two ownership relations together.
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