Brewer's: Dragoman

(plural, Dragomans). A ciceronë; a guide or interpreter to foreigners. (Arabic targuman, an interpreter; whence targum.)

“My dragoman had me completely in his power, and I resolved to become independent of all interpreters.” —Baker: Albert Nyanza, chap. i. p. 3.

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