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 ― ʕalāmāt 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^[1], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1138-1140