Often in conversations between people of trade and business you can hear the word "profit." But what does it mean and how to apply it correctly? What language did this word come to us from and how long has it been used in Russian?
The role of the word in trade and business
This term began to be used in Russian around the middle of the 16th century. A group of people involved in international trade and exchange began to apply it. It is believed that profit is a word borrowed from the Turkic language. But it had no connection with profit, and it is precisely this significance that is attached to it now. In Turkish, the word baris means reconciliation, in Tatar - the course of events, in Kazakh “barys” - this is the final point or direction.
However, in the trading acts of the northern cities of Arkhangelsk and Novgorod, the term “profit” is used already in the meaning of “reaching an agreement in price in the contract of sale”.
Later, with the development of trade routes, merchants bought goods that were cheap, and sold them in another place where they were in demand and valued much higher. It was this difference that they began to call profit, that is, the profit that the merchant received on the price difference.
Today they use the word, giving it a negative color, since in the 80-90s they called it easy money, which came because of speculation and cheating from scarce goods. But if we ignore history, then profit is a profit, a material gain that can be obtained from any transaction.
In geography
Another meaning of the word "profit" is the name of one of the many rivers of the Russian Federation. It flows in the Ulyanovsk region and is a right tributary of the Sura River (Volga basin). On the banks of this river there is a small town, few people know, it is called Barysh. Built in 1954, the administrative center of Baryshsky district. In 1998, 21, 600 people lived in it.
There is a river of the same name in Ukraine, flows in the Ternopil region and is a left tributary of the Dniester (flows into the Black Sea). Barysh stands on its shore - this is a village with a population of only 2500 people (at the beginning of the XXI century at the time of the census). It is the administrative center of the Baryshsky village council.
