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Aryan

Aryan Meaning & Definition
Aryan Definition And Meaning

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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