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^[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