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1. (n.) dragoman
(in the Near East) a professional interpreter.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME drogman interpreter < MF drog(o)man, dragoman < MGk drago(u)mános < Semitic; cf. Ar tarjumān, Akkadian targumannu)
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1. (noun) dragoman
an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)
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1. (noun) dragoman
an interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East
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