Pardes
परदेस
par-DAYS
A foreign land or abroad.
Meaning & usage
Pardes is a Hindi term meaning a foreign land or abroad. It is often used to describe a place that is distant from one's home, typically in another country. The word is derived from the Sanskrit 'pardesha', where 'par' means 'other' and 'desh' means 'country'.
In a sentence
After years of living in pardes, he longed to return to his homeland.
As seen in crosswords
Pardes is a 6-letter answer. A typical clue:
“A foreign land or abroad” (6)
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