A dragoman is an interpreter or guide.
Dragoman é um intérprete ou guia.
| Front | dragoman \DRAG-uh-man\ |
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| Back | noun An interpreter or guide. [From French dragoman, from Italian dragomanno, from Latin/Greek dragoumanos, from Arabic tarjuman, and Aramaic, from Akkadian targumanu (interpreter). Earliest documented use: 1300s. Akkadian is a now-extinct Semitic language once spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and written in cuneiform. Earliest documented use: 14th century.] "The pig doesn't express himself in some exotic swine-dialect, the farmer has no need to summon a dragoman fluent in grunts, each understands the other perfectly." - Eric Ormsby; Ambitious Diminutives; Parnassus: Poetry in Review; 2008. |
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