rakım

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Turkish

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Etymology

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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

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rakım (definite accusative rakımı, plural rakımlar)

  1. elevation, altitude

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “راقم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 613
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راقم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 958
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN