Dragoman
WordNet
noun
(1) 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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Etymology
dragman < drugeman < Medieval Latin dragumannus < Medieval Greek δραγομάνος < Arabic (turgumán) ‘translator, interpreter’. Compare truchman.
Noun
- An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages.