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noun - an interpreter and guide in the Near East
noun - an interpreter in Near Eastern countries
DRAGOMAN - A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish, Arabic, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East...
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An interpreter or guide in countries where Arabic, Turkish, or Persian is spoken. |
an interpreter or guide, especially in countries speaking Arabic, Turkish, or Persian. |
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) |
An interpreter or guide, especially in countries speaking Arabic, Turkish, or Persian. |
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A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish, Arabic, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. A dragoman had to have a knowledge of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and European languages. * The position took particular prominence in the Ottoman Empire, where demand for the mediation provided by dragomans is said to have been created by the resistance on the part of the Muslim Ottomans to learn the languages of non-Muslim nations. The office incorporated diplomatic as well as linguistic dutiesnamely, in the Porte's relation with Christian countriesand some dragomans thus came to play crucial roles in Ottoman politics. The profession tended to be dominated by ethnic Greeks, including the first Ottoman Grand Dragoman Panagiotis Nikousios, the official interpreter for the Divan (Imperial Council) of the Sultan, and his successor Alexander Mavrocordatos. But this dominance |