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An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: interpreter, translator
From Middle English dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin dragumannus, from Byzantine Greek δραγομάνος (dragomános), from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān), from Classical Syriac ܬܰܪܓܡܳܢܳܐ (targmānā), from Akkadian 𒅴𒁄 (targumannum, “interpreter”). With the plural form -men, through reinterpretation as suffixed with -man. Doublet of truchman.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
تُرْجُمَان
(turjumān)
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Czech:
dragoman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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French:
drogman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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French:
drogoman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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French:
dragoman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Georgian:
თარჯიმანი
(tarǯimani)
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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German:
Dolmetscher
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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German:
Dragoman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Greek:
δραγουμάνος
(dragoumános)
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Hebrew:
תרגמן
(turgemán)
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Hungarian:
dragomán
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Persian:
ترگمان
(targomân)
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Polish:
dragoman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Portuguese:
dragomano
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Portuguese:
drogomano
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Russian:
драгома́н
(dragomán)
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Serbo-Croatian:
драго̀ма̄н
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Serbo-Croatian:
dragòmān
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Spanish:
dragomán
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Spanish:
truchimán
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Swedish:
dragonman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Turkish:
tercüman
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
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Ukrainian:
драгома́н
(drahomán)
— interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages — see also interpreter
