Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An interpreter or guide in countries where Arabic, Turkish, or Persian is spoken.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An interpreter
- noun An interpreter attached to an embassy or a consulate. The term is in general use among travelers in the Levant and other parts of the East.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
interpreter , especially for theArabic andTurkish languages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When his memory failed him he called his dragoman and began an Arabic lesson.
Sister Teresa 1892
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The 'dragoman' establishments are much more attached to old ideas than Turks and
Persia Revisited Thomas Edward Gordon 1873
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She was not very nervous about this, but she immediately called the dragoman, Mahomet, who knew the use of a gun, and she asked him if he would stand by her in case they were attacked in my absence; the faithful servant replied, "Mahomet fight the
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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[Footnote 327: Or interpreter, now commonly called dragoman, druggeman, or trucheman, all of which are corruptions from the Arabic
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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Tadros, a dragoman, whom we first see smoking a cigarette and twirling his moustache.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Lady Duff Gordon settles in Luxor, in a small household consisting of Sally and the resourceful Egyptian dragoman they found they needed to deal with the intricacies of a different culture.
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Winston wins Aneth, but the person who makes everything work out in the end is Tadros the dragoman.
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Winston wins Aneth, but the person who makes everything work out in the end is Tadros the dragoman.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Tadros, a dragoman, whom we first see smoking a cigarette and twirling his moustache.
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“Miss Naldrett tells me she can make you better, Sitti,” says our dragoman.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
chained_bear commented on the word dragoman
"Sciahan spoke through a Modlavian dragoman, telling Jack about the Syrian campaign in 1799..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 325
February 14, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word dragoman
"For all his sentimentality about gentlemanly chivalry, Lord doesn't shy away from what the sinking and its aftermath revealed about the era's privileges and prejudices. "Even the passengers' dogs were glamorous," begins a tongue-in-cheek catalogue in "A Night to Remember" that includes a Pekingese named Sun Yatsen—part of the entourage of Henry Harper, of the publishing family, who, Lord laconically reports, had also picked up an Egyptian dragoman during his preëmbarkation travels, "as a sort of joke.""
- "Unsinkable" by Daniel Mendelsohn, p 68 of the April 16, 2012 issue of the New Yorker
April 18, 2012
stuartmathergibson commented on the word dragoman
dragoman
An interpreter or guide in countries where Arabic, Turkish, or Persian is spoken.
May 28, 2022