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Compound of pairi- around + diz -to make, form a wall.
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Paradies (and of course English paradise) itself is, interestingly, not Turkic like alma, etc. but of Persian origin via Greek (Avestan pairi-daeza "walled enclosure" and Old Persian paridaida- "park, garden").
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And so the art of gardening was linked by birth to that of war, and Cyrus of Persia was admired by Lysander for the attention that he paid to both arts, in his pairi-daeza, his paradise, his walled garden.
War in the Garden Fenton, James 1993
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Girls are tattooed on arrival at puberty with representations of the _tulsi_ or basil, four arrow-heads in the form of a cross, and the foot-ornament known as _pairi_.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Wait, oh no, I've just shown signs of supporting a pairi - * explodes*
Anime Nano! 2010
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Greek parádeisos (park, pleasure-ground); Iranian (cf. Avestan) pairi-daëza (enclosure; through Hebrew, garden).
SFGate: Top News Stories Georgia I. Hesse 2010
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