DRAGOMAN


Meaning of DRAGOMAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdra-gə-mən ]

noun

( plural -mans or drag·o·men -mən)

Etymology: Middle English drugeman, from Anglo-French, from Old Italian dragomanno, from Middle Greek dragomanos, from Arabic tarjumān, from Aramaic tūrgĕmānā

Date: 14th century

: an interpreter chiefly of Arabic, Turkish, or Persian employed especially in the Near East

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