خردهفروشی
خردهفروشی (khorde-forushi) means retail: selling goods in small quantities directly to the end customer. A pure Persian compound and the everyday counterpart to wholesale.
Glossary
عمدهفروشی
عمدهفروشی (omde-forushi) means wholesale trade: selling goods in large quantities, usually to retailers rather than end customers. B2 business vocabulary.
کاسب
کاسب (kâseb) means shopkeeper or tradesman. An Arabic-origin word used in colloquial Persian, it refers to a small business owner or street trader, and carries a warm, everyday quality in speech.
تاجر
تاجر (tâjer) means merchant or trader. Borrowed from Arabic, it describes a person engaged in wholesale or large-scale commerce, and carries more formal weight than the colloquial کاسب.
تجارت
تجارت (tejârat) means trade or commerce. An Arabic-origin masdar noun, it is the standard formal term for commercial activity in Persian, appearing in business names, legal texts, and everyday speech.
معامله
معامله (mo’âmele) means a deal or transaction. Borrowed from Arabic, it covers everything from a property sale to a market trade, and is widely used in both formal contracts and everyday speech.
بورس
بورس (burs) means stock exchange. It is a French loanword from bourse, which entered Persian through the spread of European financial institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
سهام
سهام (sahâm) is the Arabic-origin plural of سهم, meaning shares or stocks. It is the standard term used in Iranian financial and business contexts.
سرمایهگذاری
سرمایهگذاری (sarmâye-gozâri) means investment, the act of committing capital to generate a return. It is a pure Persian verbal noun built from سرمایه (capital) and گذاشتن (to place), with both roots being native Persian.
سرمایه
سرمایه (sarmâye) means capital or investment funds, the money or assets used to generate more wealth. Both components, سر (head) and مایه (substance), are native Persian, giving the word a long literary history.