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)

1. elevation, altitude

References

• 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