Dragoman

Definition: Dragoman

Dragoman

Noun

1. An interpreter and guide in the Near East.

Date "dragoman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references)

Etymology: Dragoman \Drag"o*man\, noun; plural Dragomans. [From French dragoman, or Spanish dragoman, or Italian dragomanno; all from Late Greek, Arabic tarjum[=a]n, from the same source as English targum. Compare to Drogman, Truchman.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Dragoman

Domain	Definition
Literature	Dragoman (plural, Dragomans). A ciceron�; 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. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Dragoman

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interpreter	Dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dragoman

English words defined with "dragoman": Dragomans, Drogoman ♦ Truchman. (references)

Etymologies containing "dragoman": Truchman. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dragoman" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (dragoman), Romanian (dragoman), Serbo-Croatian (dragoman).

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dragoman

Subject	Topic	Quote
Trade	Bulgaria	There are at present six operational "free zones" in Bulgaria: Ruse and Vidin ports on the Danube, Plovdiv, Svilengrad (near the Turkish border), Dragoman (near the Yugoslav border), and Burgas port on the Black Sea. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dragoman

"Dragoman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dragoman" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dragoman

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dragoman	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dragoman

Language		Translations for "dragoman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përkthyes (translator). (various references)

Bulgarian		преводач (interpreter, translator), драгоман. (various references)

Czech		překladatel (translator). (various references)

Farsi		مترجم (Interpreter, Translator), ترجمان (Translator), دیلماج (Translator). (various references)

French		dragoman. (various references)

Greek		διερμηνέασ (interpreter). (various references)

Hebrew		מתור�'מן (interpreter, translater), תור�'מן (interpreter, translator). (various references)

Hungarian		keleti tolmács. (various references)

Indonesian		juru bahasa (interpreter). (various references)

Italian		dragomanno. (various references)

Pig Latin		agomandray

Portuguese		drogomano, pescador (fisher, fishman). (various references)

Romanian		dragoman, traducãtor (interpreter, translator), tãlmaci (translator). (various references)

Russian		драгоман. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dragoman. (various references)

Spanish		traductor (interpreter, translator). (various references)

Turkish		tercüman (cicerone, interpreter, translator), çevirmen (interpreter, translator). (various references)

Ukrainian		перекладач (interpreter, translator), драгоман. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dragoman

Language	Period	Translations
Arabic	500-Modern	targuman. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dragoman

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dragoman": dragomans. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dragoman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dahomean, Dragomir, dragonian, Dragoumis, dragsmen, repoman, Tragopan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dragoman

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-m-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: gormand, grandam, grandma, madrona, monarda.
	-2 letters: angora, dragon, morgan, organa, ragman, random, rodman.
	-3 letters: adman, adorn, agora, among, argon, aroma, daman, damar, dogma, donga, drama, gonad, grama, grana, grand, groan, mango, manor, monad, nomad, orang, organ, radon, roman.
	-4 letters: agar, agma, agon, anga, anoa, dago, damn, dang, darn, dona, dong, dorm, drag, dram, gama.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-m-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: dragomans.
	+2 letters: mandragora, montagnard.
	+3 letters: mandragoras, montagnards, overmanaged.
	+4 letters: micromanaged.
	+5 letters: coastguardman, coastguardmen, scandalmonger.
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