rakım
Meaning
elevation, altitude
Concepts
Translations
altitude
Höhe
altitudine
بهرزی
hoogte
nautor
altitude
altitudEtymology
In summary
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.
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