or DRAGOUMAN, an interpreter; a term of general use in the Levant and throughout the East. There are dragomans attached to the embassies and consulates of Christian nations residing at the Porte. The word is formed from the Arabic targarman or targarman, of the verb taragam, "he has interpreted." From dragoman the Italians formed dragomanno, and, with a nearer relation to its Arabic etymology, turcimanno; whence comes trucheman, as well as dragoman and drogueman.