Ferdows as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ferdows

What is the meaning of the name Ferdows ?

The baby name Ferdows is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced FER-dows (Persian: /ferˈdoʊs/; Arabic variant Firdaus: /firˈdaʊs/).

Ferdows is Persian in Origin.

Ferdows is the Persian form of Arabic Firdaws, ultimately from Old Iranian/Avestan pairidaeza meaning “walled garden, enclosure,” the source of Greek paradeisos and English “paradise.” In Qur’anic and classical Islamic usage, al-Firdaws denotes the highest garden of Heaven, so the name conveys “paradise,” “bliss,” or “the loftiest heaven.”

As a given name, Ferdows appears across the Persianate and Muslim world from the medieval period onward; the celebrated 10th–11th-century epic poet Ferdowsi bore a pen name derived from the same root. It remains in use in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, the Arab world, and South and Southeast Asia. Common variants and transliterations include Firdaus and Firdaws (Arabic), Firdous/Firdos (Urdu-Hindi), Firdavs (Tajik), and Firdevs (Turkish). Usage is typically unisex, skewing masculine in Central Asia and the Malay-Indonesian sphere and sometimes feminine in Turkish and South Asian contexts.