فِرْدَوْسٌ
1.
A garden: (S, Msb:) so in the Greek language [
παράδεισος]: (M:) or a garden comprising everything that is in gardens: (Zj, M, A, O, K:) such is the proper signification; (Zj, M, O;) and so with the people of every language: (Zj, M:) and containing grape-vines: (Fr, O, K:) or a garden in which are grape-vines: (IAmb, M, Msb:) or a place in which are grape-vines: (TA:) or an ample, beautiful garden: (A:) or a garden comprising grape-vines and palm-trees: (Bd in xviii. 107:) or with the Arabs it signifies a valley abounding with herbage, like a garden: (M:) or a valley, (Zj, Msb,) or valleys, (O, K,) producing various sorts of plants or herbage: (Zj, O, Msb, K:) in the K, for الأَوْدِيَةُ الَّتِى تُنْبِتُ, we should read مِنَ الأَوْدِيَةِ الَّتِى تُنْبِتُ; (TK;) [or rather, مِنَ الأَوْدِيَةِ مَا يُنْبِتُ, as in the Msb:] or a meadow; synonym رَوْضَةٌ: (Seer, M:) and the greenness of grapes (أَعْنَاب), (so in a copy of the M,) or of herbs (أَعْشَاب): (so in the TA:) masculine and feminine: (Msb:) sometimes the latter; (K;) as in the Qur'an, 23:11, because, by الفِرْدَوْسَ is there meant الجَنَّةَ: (O, TA:) it is an Arabic word, (S, O, Msb, K,) according to Fr, (S, O, Msb,) occurring in a verse cited voce ثَوَابٌ, which is by Hassán Ibn-Thábit, (O,) derived from فَرْدَسَةٌ, meaning “ width ” or “ amplitude, ” (Msb, K, *) according to Fr: (Msb:) or it is Greek, (Zj, O, Msb, K,) transferred to the Arabic language; (Zj, O, Msb;) [i. e., arabicised: but as it occurs in the Qur'an (xviii. 107 and xxiii. 11), this is contr. to the opinion of Esh-Sháfi'ee and others, who deny that any arabicized word occurs therein: (see سُنْدُسٌ:)] or it is Syriac: (Zj, O, K:) the plural is فَرَادِيسُ; (A, TA;) which is applied by the people of Syria to gardens and grape-vines. (TA.)
2.
Hence, (Bd in xviii. 107,) الفِرْدَوْسُ [Paradise: or] a garden of trees, or walled garden, (حَدِيقَةٌ,) in
الجَنَّة [or Paradise]: (S:) or the highest of the stages of
الجَنَّة: (Bd, ubi suprà:) or the middle and highest part of
الجَنَّة. (Jel, ibid.)