Learn Farsi: کسب و کار ما از این کلاهبرداری سایبری ضربه‌ی بزرگی خورد. - Our business took a big hit from this cyber scam.

In Farsi, you can often make a transitive compound verb "passive" or receptive by replacing its active light verb (like zadan or dâdan) with khordan (to eat / to suffer). The active phrase is ضربه زدن (zarbe zadan - to strike a blow). To express receiving that blow, we swap zadan for khordan, creating ضربه خوردن (zarbe khordan - to take a hit / to suffer a blow). Here, it's in the simple past: خورد (khord).

The word for scam is کلاهبرداری (kolâhbardâri). What is the literal breakdown of this word?

It literally translates to "hat-lifting"! It is made from کلاه (kolâh - hat) and the noun form of برداشتن (bardâshtan - to pick up / to remove). In Farsi idiom, to lift or remove someone's hat (کلاه کسی را برداشتن) means to scam, defraud, or swindle them.

Why is there an extra ی at the end of بزرگی (bozorgi)?

That is the indefinite enclitic -i, which translates to "a" or "an". The phrase is ضربه‌ی بزرگی (zarbe-ye bozorg-i), meaning "a big hit". Notice how the -i attaches to the very end of the noun phrase (after the adjective bozorg), rather than to the noun zarbe itself.

How do we break down the word for business, کسب و کار (kasb o kâr)?