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dragoman

(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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6 months ago chained_bear said:

"Sciahan spoke through a Modlavian dragoman, telling Jack about the Syrian campaign in 1799..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 325

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