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drag·o·man

(drăg′ə-mən)

n. pl. drag·o·mans or drag·o·men

An interpreter or guide in countries where Arabic, Turkish, or Persian is spoken.

[Middle English dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin dragumannus, from Medieval Greek dragoumanos, from Arabic tarjumān, from Aramaic targəmānā, from Akkadian targumannu, interpreter; see rgm in Semitic roots.]

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dragoman

(ˈdræɡəʊmən)

n, pl -mans or -men

(Historical Terms) (in some Middle Eastern countries, esp formerly) a professional interpreter or guide

[C14: from French, from Italian dragomano, from Medieval Greek dragoumanos, from Arabic targumān an interpreter, from Aramaic tūrgemānā, of Akkadian origin]

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drag•o•man

(ˈdræg ə mən)

n., pl. -mans, -men.

(in the Near East) a professional interpreter.

[1300–50; Middle English drogman interpreter < Middle French drog(o)man, dragoman < Medieval Greek drago(u)mános < Semitic; compare Arabic tarjumān, Akkadian targumannu]

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dragoman - 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)

interpreter, translator - someone who mediates between speakers of different languages

Translations

ترجمان

Dolmetscher

ترگمان

tolmács

толмач

tumačтумач

tercüman

dragoman

n → Dragoman m

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HEARING a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it.

"The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure.

"The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman.

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At the appointed time our business committee reported, and said all things were in readdress--that we were to start to-day, with horses, pack animals, and tents, and go to Baalbec, Damascus, the Sea of Tiberias, and thence southward by the way of the scene of Jacob's Dream and other notable Bible localities to Jerusalem--from thence probably to the Dead Sea, but possibly not--and then strike for the ocean and rejoin the ship three or four weeks hence at Joppa; terms, five dollars a day apiece, in gold, and every thing to be furnished by the dragoman. They said we would lie as well as at a hotel.

At that hour Abraham, the dragoman, marshaled them before us.

Those stately fellows in baggy trowsers and turbaned fezzes brought in a dinner which consisted of roast mutton, roast chicken, roast goose, potatoes, bread, tea, pudding, apples, and delicious grapes; the viands were better cooked than any we had eaten for weeks, and the table made a finer appearance, with its large German silver candlesticks and other finery, than any table we had sat down to for a good while, and yet that polite dragoman, Abraham, came bowing in and apologizing for the whole affair, on account of the unavoidable confusion of getting under way for a very long trip, and promising to do a great deal better in future!

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Papoosh Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador (attended by Kibob Bey, dragoman of the mission), the Marquess of Steyne, Earl of Southdown, Sir Pitt and Lady Jane Crawley, Mr.

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When I rode across the Troad from the Dardanelles to Hissarlik and Mount Ida, I noticed that my dragoman and his men did all our outdoor cooking exactly in the Odyssean and Iliadic fashion.

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has inspected construction works on Europe Motorway in Slivnitsa - Dragoman section, said the government press office, quoted by Focus News Agency.The project started in mid-May this year and will be completed by 2021, it is implemented with funds from the state budget under the New Construction programme of the Road Infrastructure Agency.Borissov noted that the construction teams have done a lot of work and successfully conducted all excavations.Minister of Economy Emil Karanikolov and Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Nikolay Nankov accompanied the prime minister.The inspection started from the first overpass that will connect the motorway to Slivnitsa.

PM Boyko Borissov Inspected the Construction Works on Europe Motorway

The church, according to Patapiou, was property of dragoman Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios during the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries and operated as an orphanage at the beginning of the 20th century.

Restoration work to start on collapsed church

The last essay describes the case of Dragoman of Cyprus who was much more than that.