or **DROGMAN**, a term of general use through the east for an interpreter, whose office is to facilitate commerce between the orientals and occidentals. These are kept by the ambassadors of Christian nations residing at the Porte for this purpose.

The word is formed from the Arabic *targeman* or *targiman*, of the verb *targem*, "he has interpreted." From *dragoman* the Italians formed *dragomano* and, with a nearer relation to its Arabic etymology, *turciniano*; whence the French and our trucheman, as well as *dragoman* and *drogman*.