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The story about Paribanu in 1001 Arabian Nights isn't redundant. Pari means faerie. Banu means lady. Paribanu means fairy lady.
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This is my daughter's middle name. I find it quite spunky and fun. It is considered old-fashioned among Persians, but works much better in the West than most Persian names. One famous bearer was a general named Pari Satis.
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The Turkish form of this name is Peri. [noted -ed]
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"The Story of Prince Achmed and the Fairy Paribanu" is a story in The 1001 Nights (Arabian Nights). I never realized till now that Paribanu's name means "fairy lady"! Makes the title a bit redundant: Prince Achmed and the Fairy Fairy-Lady. Beautiful story, though. Adapted into the animated silent movie "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" in the '20s.
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Variant form Peri also means "fruit" in Hebrew and is used sometimes in Israel.
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Pari is also Peri. It is a Persian name from folklore. A Peri is a persian dev (or nature spirit), the result of a union between a mortal and a God. It is forever banned from Paradise until atoning for the sins of its parents. Although it was first given in the earliest Persian folklore to be a malicious spirit (in female form, bent upon seducing males and driving them to their destruction), it has since come to be known as one that is generally well-intentioned but mischevious. Numerous tales exist of the Peri, some of them accessible on the internet when looking at Persian folklore and myth. It is also given definition in Mirriam Webster's dictionary as "a beautiful woman." How is it that I have researched this so thoroughly? Because my mother was both a frustrated english teacher AND a crossword puzzle fanatic, and found me in a book of Dell Crossword puzzles as 17 Across: An Elf. 4 Letters. It won't be so cute when I'm 90.
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Pari can also be short for Paradise.
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Famous bearer: Pari de Bordeaux, the artist who painted the protection of St. Mark saving Venice.
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