dragoman
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin dragumannus, from Byzantine Greek δραγομάνος (dragomános), from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān, “translator, interpreter”). Doublet of truchman.
Noun
[edit]dragoman (plural dragomans or dragomen)
- (historical) An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages.
- 1992, Martin R. Kalfatovic, Nile Notes of a Howadji, page 243:
- 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.
- 2011, David Bellos, chapter 11, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
- 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.
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[edit]an interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān, “translator, interpreter”).
Noun
[edit]dragoman m anim
Declension
[edit]Declension of dragoman (hard masculine animate)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | dragoman | dragomani |
genitive | dragomana | dragomanů |
dative | dragomanovi, dragomanu | dragomanům |
accusative | dragomana | dragomany |
vocative | dragomane | dragomani |
locative | dragomanovi, dragomanu | dragomanech |
instrumental | dragomanem | dragomany |
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Noun
[edit]dragoman m (plural dragomans)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greek δραγουμάνος (dragoumános).
Noun
[edit]dragoman m (plural dragomani)
Declension
[edit]Declension of dragoman
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) dragoman | dragomanul | (niște) dragomani | dragomanii |
genitive/dative | (unui) dragoman | dragomanului | (unor) dragomani | dragomanilor |
vocative | dragomanule | dragomanilor |
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