نجار
najjar means carpenter, one of the steadiest trades in Iran, building doors, windows, kitchen cabinets, and the wooden ceilings of historic houses.
Glossary
عطار
attar means traditional herbalist and perfumer, the bazaar shop of dried roots, spices, and rosewater, and the trade that named the poet of Mantiq al-Tayr.
ساعت ساز
saatsaz means watchmaker, a thinning trade that still survives in a few bazaar corners where men with loupes and tweezers repair mechanical movements.
زرگر
zargar means jeweler or goldsmith, a high-status bazaar trade with its own lane in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, outfitting Iranian weddings in 18-karat.
پیشه ور
pisheh-var means artisan or tradesperson, the urban backbone of pre-industrial Iran, a class that built the bazaars and is now half-vanished into modernity.
پیله ور
pilevar means peddler, the itinerant village seller with a bundle of small goods on his back, mostly gone now but alive in Persian literature and memory.
انباردار
anbardar means warehouse keeper, the man who knows where every sack of rice and crate of tile sits in a bazaar storeroom and signs goods in and out.
دلال
dallal means broker or middleman, the man who connects buyer and seller and lives on commission, common in Iranian real estate to this day.
صراف
sarraf means money changer, a bazaar trade running on trust, ledgers, and the daily rial-to-dollar rate posted in a tiny shop window.
نذر کردن
nazr-kardan is to make a religious vow: if X happens, I will do Y. Common around Imam Hossein, in prayers for the sick, and in promises of charity.