About The Word Aryan
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Aryan
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What's The Definition Of Aryan?
[n] a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
[n] (according to Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian person of Nordic descent [adj] of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations" Synonyms | Synonyms for Aryan: Indo-Aryan | Indo-European | Indo-European Related Terms | Find terms related to Aryan: See Also | Caucasian | primitive | primitive person | White | white person Aryan In Webster's Dictionary \Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), n. [Skr. [=a]rya
excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran,
and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this
people, at least in Asia.]
1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in
prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian
Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan
Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang
the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic,
Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological
division of mankind called also Indo-European or
Indo-Germanic.
2. The language of the original Aryans. [Written also
{Arian}.]
\Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), a. Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages. |
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