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drogman

drogman is the alternative form of dragoman.

Meaning of dragoman

Noun

dragoman (plural dragomans or dragomen)

  1. (historical) An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages.
    • Engaging William Prime's (q.v.) dragoman, he visits the bazaars, mosques, and Pyramids before sailing in the dahabeeya Rip Van Winkle up the Nile.1992, Martin R. Kalfatovic, Nile Notes of a Howadji, page 243

Forms of drogman

pluraldrogmans
pluraldrogmen

Questions about drogman

What is drogman the alternative form of?
Drogman is the alternative form of dragoman.

Words near drogman in the dictionary

  1. drogger
  2. droggers
  3. Drogheda
  4. drogher
  5. droghers
  6. drogman
  7. drogmans
  8. drogmen
  9. Drogobitai
  10. drogoman
  11. drogomans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drogman (page history and authors); dragoman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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