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).

Roget 524: interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer; demonstrator.    scholiast, commentator, annotator; metaphrast^†, paraphrast^†; glossarist^†, prolocutor.    spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece.    dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman; oneirocritic^†; (Edipus; oracle) &c.. 513 ... show more

Dutch: tolk, drogman
Polish: dragoman, drogman, tardżuman