تَاجِرٌ

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تَاجِرٌ A merchant; one who practises traffic, merchandise, or commerce; a trafficker; a trader, or tradesman; a dealer; one who sells and buys; one who sells and buys for gain: and a vintner, or seller of wine, was also called thus by the Arabs: accord. to IAth, this latter is said to be the primary signification: and hence the saying in a trad., إِنَّ التَّاجِرَ فَاجِرٌ [Verily the vintner is a transgressor]: pl. تُجَّارٌ and تِجَارٌ and تَجْرٌ , [or rather this last is a quasi-pl. n.,] like as صَحْبٌ is of صَاحِبٌ, and تُجُرٌ, or this may be a pl. of تِجَارٌ. التَّجِرُ . occurring in a verse of El-Akhtal, [for التَّاجِرُ,] is thought by ISd to be like طَهِرٌ [for طَاهِرٌ].
2 [Hence,] A man skilful in an affair. The Arabs say, إِنَّهُ لَتَاجِرٌ بِذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ Verily he is skilful in that affair.
3 And A she-camel that is saleable, or easy of sale, or in much demand, in traffic, and in the market; as also تَاجِرَةٌ: or the latter, a she-camel that is goodly, and saleable, or in much demand: or that is easy of sale when offered, by reason of her excellence: or simply, that is easy of sale, or in much demand: as though, by reason of her beauty, or goodliness, and fatness, she sold herself: contr. of كَاسِدَةٌ: the pl. of تاجرة is تَوَاجِرُ. You say also, عَلَيْكَ بِالسِّلَعِ التَّوَاجِرِ [Keep thou to the commodities] that are saleable, or in much demand. And هُوَ عَلَى أَكْرَمِ تَاجِرَةٍ He is upon a most noble horse.

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