Noun: dragoman
| Singular | dragoman |
| Plural | dragomans; dragomen |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1992, Martin R. Kalfatovic, Nile Notes of a Howadji, page 243:]
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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 the words of the source expressed subservience to their principal's intention. [2011, David Bellos, chapter 11, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:]
Nouns inflected like dragoman
socman,
shaman,
yarraman,
Pokeyman,
femmefan,
Bosjesman,
Discman,
sokeman,
sockman,
zinefan,
drogman,
femme fan,
Trekfan,
Turkman,
Fennoman,
dragoman,
pokeyman,
eofan,
pan,
stfan, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin dragumannus, from Byzantine Greek δραγομάνος (dragomános), from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān), from Classical Syriac ܬܰܪܓܡܳܢܳܐ (targmānā), from Akkadian 𒅴𒁄 (targumannum, “interpreter”). With the plural form -men, through reinterpretation as suffixed with -man. Doublet of truchman. See: Middle English Nouns '
dragman'.
Verbs referencing "dragoman"
Catalan Nouns
torsimany.