how to say “importer” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /]יְבוּאָן

Here’s a word you’ll find on the labels of grocery-store items in Israel: יבואן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /] – importer.

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /]במקום לקנות בחנות, חשבתי לקנות ישירות מהיבואן.

Instead of buying from the store, I thought of buying directly from the importer.

יבואן comes from יבוא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /] – import, which itself comes from the root ב.ו.א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /] meaning coming (think incoming).

What about exporter and export? Those are יצואן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /]  and יצוא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /], which come from the root י.צ.א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/יבואן-#.m4a” /] meaning going out.