The dragoman system trained practical interpreters separately from academics

Evidence

Those who acted as intermediaries and interpreters were known as tarjumans or dragomans (from the Arabic tarjama, ‘to translate’). There were schools for such translators in Paris, Venice and Pera (the suburb of Constantinople on the north side of the Golden Horn). — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 194

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘dragoman’ with its Arabic etymology and names its training schools.

Related

• Crusade-era commerce and war created professional interpreters called tarjuman (similarity 0.84)
• Distrust of interpreters drove Europe and the Porte to end dragoman systems (similarity 0.80)
• Dragomans systematically mistranslated diplomatic correspondence to smooth over status hierarchies (similarity 0.78)