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Jul. 02, 2015
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\DRAG-uh-muhn\
noun
1. (in the Near East) a professional interpreter.
Quotes
She had brought with her three maids and a lady interpreter, Madame Pisani, a very pleasant woman about forty years of age, the wife of the court dragoman, who, with her husband, was from an ancient Venetian family.
-- Karen Essex, Stealing Athena, 2008
Origin
Dragoman is related to the Arabic word tarjumān meaning "interpreter." It entered English in the 1300s.
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