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Pretty low standards (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Paradise" comes from Persian and means "beautiful garden"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It literally means "encircling boundary wall". It then started to mean "something encircled by a wall", which often happened to be gardens, and then it started to mean "garden".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sooo back in the days a prison and a paradise would use the same word to describe it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I guess it's more that the word paradise (paridayjah) could be used to describe anything encircled by a wall, whether it's a prison or a garden. I think at that time (when some form of proto-iranic was spoken) a paradise (as in heaven) would be something like hácmā.

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