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تاجِر
merchant /ˈtaː.dʒir/
nounB1#2162 most common
Also: trader, businessman, dealer
Example sentences
هذا تاجِر.
This is a merchant.
التاجِر يبيع الفواكه في السوق.
The merchant sells fruit in the market.
عمل جدي تاجِراً في المدينة لسنوات طويلة.
My grandfather worked as a merchant in the city for many years.
يسعى كل تاجِر ذكي إلى كسب ثقة زبائنه قبل الربح.
Every clever merchant seeks to win his customers' trust before profit.
لم يكن التاجِر مجرد بائع، بل كان وسيطاً بين ثقافات مختلفة عبر طرق القوافل.
The merchant was not merely a seller, but a mediator between different cultures along the caravan routes.
يقال إن التاجِر الماهر يشتري الشائعة ويبيع الحقيقة، لأن الأسواق تُدار بالتوقعات لا بالوقائع وحدها.
It is said that the skilled merchant buys the rumor and sells the truth, because markets run on expectations, not on facts alone.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تاجِرٌ | تُجّارٌ |
| Genitive | تاجِرٍ | تُجّارٍ |
| Accusative | تاجِراً | تُجّاراً |
| Vocative | يا تاجِرُ | يا تُجّارُ |
Word family
Etymology
تاجِر is the active participle of the root ت-ج-ر, "to trade." The root itself is old and appears across the Semitic languages tied to commerce. Scholars trace it to Akkadian tamkāru, "merchant," which passed into Aramaic and later Arabic. The word has meant "one who conducts trade" throughout its history.
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