📚 noun • entry_id 10372
dragoman
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dragomán • truchimán
An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages.
Dragomans altered the pasha's language to put it in a form best suited to performing the act that the principal intended. […] Far from being ‘free’, the dragomans' reformulation of…
Engaging William Prime's (q.v.) dragoman, he visits the bazaars, mosques, and Pyramids before sailing in the dahabeeya Rip Van Winkle up the Nile.
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