rakım
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish راقم (rakim, “writer, marker”), from Arabic رَاقِم (rāqim), active participle of رَقَمَ (raqama). The semantic shift from an adjective meaning one who draws to a noun related to contour lines drawn on maps came in the late 19th century.
Noun
rakım (definite accusative rakımı, plural rakımlar)
- elevation, altitude
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “راقم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 613
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “راقم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 958
- The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN