First Known Use: 14th century
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dragoman
noun drag·o·man \ˈdra-gə-mən\
plural drag·o·mans or drag·o·men \-mən\
Definition of DRAGOMAN
: an interpreter chiefly of Arabic, Turkish, or Persian employed especially in the Near East
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Origin of DRAGOMAN
Middle English drugeman, from Anglo-French, from Old Italian dragomanno, from Middle Greek dragomanos, from Arabic tarjumān, from Aramaic tūrgĕmānā
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