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