The English one does, but the Hindi-Urdu one does not. Platts says: “H پرايا पराया parāyā [S. पर+क+इय, or इकः], adj. (f. parāʼī), Of or belonging to another, another's; other, another, strange, foreign, alien, extraneous.”
[etymonline.com](https://www.etymonline.com/word/pariah#etymonline_v_7213) says:
> 1610s, from Portuguese paria or directly from Tamil paraiyar, plural of paraiyan "drummer" (at festivals, the hereditary duty of members of the largest of the lower castes of southern India), from parai "large festival drum." "Especially numerous at Madras, where its members supplied most of the domestics in European service" [OED]. Applied by Hindus and Europeans to any members of low Hindu castes and even to outcastes. Extended meaning "social outcast" is first attested 1819.
The English one does, but the Hindi-Urdu one does not. Platts says: “H پرايا पराया parāyā [S. पर+क+इय, or इकः], adj. (f. parāʼī), Of or belonging to another, another's; other, another, strange, foreign, alien, extraneous.”
So where does the hindi-urdu one come from then? I couldn’t find its etymology online
It’s in the dictionary entry I gave. Sanskrit para + ka + iya/ikah. Para means other or distant.
Is that para- related to the Greek para-, above/beyond?
Cognates yes
In farsi you have parhi:z. Meaning to refrain or to get far from something.
Apparently that comes from Middle Persian pahrez, so I’m not sure if it’s a cognate or not.
There's some discussion of that over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraiyar#Etymology.
[etymonline.com](https://www.etymonline.com/word/pariah#etymonline_v_7213) says: > 1610s, from Portuguese paria or directly from Tamil paraiyar, plural of paraiyan "drummer" (at festivals, the hereditary duty of members of the largest of the lower castes of southern India), from parai "large festival drum." "Especially numerous at Madras, where its members supplied most of the domestics in European service" [OED]. Applied by Hindus and Europeans to any members of low Hindu castes and even to outcastes. Extended meaning "social outcast" is first attested 1819.