(n)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)
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n.; pl.Dragomans [ From F. dragoman, or Sp. dragoman, or It. dragomanno; all fr. LGr. &unr_;, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]