Definition of "dragoman"

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

Dragomans altered the pasha's language to put it in a form best suited to performing the act that the principal intended. […] Far from being ‘free’, the dragomans' reformulation of the words of the source expressed subservience to their principal's intention.

2011, David Bellos, chapter 11, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?