ترقيم

ترقيم

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ر ق م‎ (r-q-m) meaning "to engrave", "to imprint or impress", "to tag or label", "to mark".

Noun

تَرْقِيم • (tarqīm) m

1. verbal noun of رَقَّمَ‎ (raqqama) (form II)
2. punctuation

   ‏عَلَامَات التَّرْقِيم‎ ― ʿalāmāt at-tarqīm ― punctuation marks

3. pointing
4. decorating with stripes or markings
5. a mark used in registers and on checks to fill in blank spaces preventing the writing of additional numbers

Declension

Declension of noun تَرْقِيم (tarqīm)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَرْقِيم tarqīm	التَّرْقِيم‎ at-tarqīm	تَرْقِيم tarqīm
Nominative	تَرْقِيمٌ tarqīmun	التَّرْقِيمُ‎ at-tarqīmu	تَرْقِيمُ tarqīmu
Accusative	تَرْقِيمًا‎ tarqīman	التَّرْقِيمَ‎ at-tarqīma	تَرْقِيمَ tarqīma
Genitive	تَرْقِيمٍ tarqīmin	التَّرْقِيمِ‎ at-tarqīmi	تَرْقِيمِ tarqīmi

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ترقيم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1138-1140