How to say "merchant, trader" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningmerchant, trader
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
تَاجِر
tājirתאג'ר
تاجر
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
סוחר
sokherسُوخِر
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Arabic root
ت-ج-رHebrew root
ת-ג-רMishnaic Hebrew תגר and Arabic tājir are one merchant twice imported: Akkadian tamkāru traveled through Aramaic taggārā (the m assimilating away) into both languages. Modern Hebrew still keeps תגר and תגרנות for market haggling.
Related Hebrew word:תגרtagarتَاگَار
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
تَاجِر
tāgirתאגרHard g in Cairo: tāgir.
In a phrase
تَاجِر فِي السُّوق
tājir fī s-sūqתאג'ר פי א-סוקa merchant in the market
Plural
تُجَّار
tujjārתג'ארbroken plural CuCCāC — like عامل→عمّال