Paradise
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Paradise is a Persian word that roughly equates to the "heaven" side of the Heaven/Hell duality in Zoroastrianism. When the ancient Tribe of the Upper Kingdom was freed from Babalonian Exhile, they adopted many cultural traits and parts of the language from the Zoroastrians, including the word Paradise.
The English usage of Paradise for Heaven comes through French, which takes its form "paradis" from the Latin. Latin borrowed from the Greek, which took the word more directly from the Persian word.