Dictionary entry

Dragoman

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Drag″o‐man (?), n.; pl.Dragomans (#). [From F. dragoman, or Sp. dragoman, or It. dragomanno; all fr. LGr. �, Ar. tarjumān, from the same source as E. targum. Cf. Drogman, Truchman.] An interpreter; — so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.