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Aryan
- /ˈɛəɹi.ən/ UK
- /ˈɛəjən/ UK
- /ˈɑːɹi.ən/ UK
- /ˈɑːjən/ UK
- /ˈɛɹi.ən/
- /ˈɛɹjən/
- /ˈɑɹi.ən/
- /ˈɑɹjən/
- /ˈæɹiən/ US
- /ˈɛəɹi.ən/ US
Sounds like Arian, Arean, Arrian, (one pronunciation) Arion · Rhymes with -ɛəɹiən, -ɛə(ɹ)jən, -ɑːɹiən, -ɑː(ɹ)jən, -æɹiən
Where it comes from
Originally from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble; noble one”) and + -n. The Sanskrit word is an autonym originally from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas (see there for more). Borrowed into English in the 19th century, at first as a term for the Indo-Iranian languages, and later partly extended to the Indo-European languages and peoples following a theory by Friedrich Schlegel that connected the Indo-Iranian words arya/ā́rya with German Ehre (“honor”) and some older Germanic names, thus assuming that it was the original Indo-European autonym meaning "the honorable people". The original meaning of the Indo-Iranian autonym and its possible Indo-European origin/cognates are disputed (see the Wikipedia article for further details).
The same Proto-Indo-Iranian root is the ultimate source of the country name Iran. Also the doublet of Arya.
noun Aryans · Arian
- A person of Caucasian (white / Northern European) ethnicity; A white non-Jew, in the broadest sense, or more narrowly defined as people of Germanic descent. This short sketch of the changes that take place among those races that are only the depositories of a culture also furnishes a picture of the development and the activity and the disappearance of those who are the true founders of culture on this earth, namely the Aryans themselves.
- A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense. Cal tried to think of words that would convey Wolfgang Stahl to the ears and hands of a woman who’d never seen him and never, until now, had to imagine him. […] ‘Why not . . . why not think of your chap as a type? Tell me what type you’d sort of put him into.’ ‘Sort of?’ ‘You know . . . roughly.
- An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European. 1905, Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., chief editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume IV We have seen that when the Goths first entered Roman territory they were driven on by a vast migration of the Asiatic Huns. These wild and hideous tribes then […] appeared upon the Rhine, and in enormous nu
- A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites. [The] Caucasian race includes two sub-races, — the Xantho-chroic and Melanochroic of Huxley. The seat of this race is Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, its linguistic division being into Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.
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Synonym of Indo-Iranian (“member of any peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.”)
Similar: Indo-Iranian
- An Indo-Aryan. The Vedic hymns […] appear to have been composed at various dates between 1500 and 1000 B.C., while the Aryans were still settled in the Punjab and had not yet spread eastward into the valley of the Ganges.
adjective more Aryan · most Aryan · Arian
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Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
Look at the ravages from which our people are suffering daily as a result of being contaminated with Jewish blood. Bear in mind the fact that this poisonous contamination can be eliminated from the national body only after centuries, or perhaps never. Think further of how the process of racial decom
Opposite: non-Aryan
- Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity. Neo-Nazis use Nordic religions to fashion a more noble Aryan past and a modern Pan-Aryan community. Symbols from and references to ancient spirituality pepper neo-Nazi literature.
- Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc. Imagine our outrage if the foreign press depicted Aryan groups as representing mainstream Christianity.
- Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages. 1905, Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., chief editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume IV Who were these Teutons? Rome knew them only vaguely as wild tribes dwelling in the gloom of the great forest wilderness. In reality they were but the vanguard of vast races of human beings who through ages
- Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages. 1872-79: John Beames, A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: to wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Bangall [W]ith all due deference to the opinions of scholars, it may be urged that much of this elaborate development arose in an age when the speech of th
proper noun Arian
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Synonym of Indo-Iranian.
Similar: Indo-Iranian
- A male given name of Indian usage.
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Synonym of Indo-European.
Similar: Indo-European
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: indo-european, indo-aryan, arian, nordic, caucasian, aria, air, iron, irian, ariane, arjan, iranian, indo-iranian, proto-indo-european, vedic, teutonic
Translations
Every language
noun an Indo-Iranian
| हिन्दी | आर्य ārya |
|---|---|
| Português | ariano |
| Français | Aryen |
| Deutsch | Arier |
| Русский | ари́ец aríjec, ари́йка aríjka |
| العربية | آرِيّ ʔāriyy |
noun a member of the supposed Aryan race
| Español | ario, aria |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 아리아인 Aria-in |
| 日本語 | アーリア人 Āria-jin |
| 中文 | 雅利安人 Yǎlì'ān-rén |
| हिन्दी | आर्य ārya |
| Português | ariano, ário |
| Français | Aryen, Aryenne |
| Deutsch | Arier, Arierin |
| Italiano | ariano |
| Română | arian, ariană |
| Русский | ари́ец aríjec, ари́йка aríjka |
| العربية | آرِيّ ʔāriyy, آرِيَّة ʔāriyya |
| עברית | אַרִי arí |
noun an Indo-European
| हिन्दी | आर्य ārya |
|---|---|
| Português | ariano |
| Français | Indo-Européen, Aryen |
| Deutsch | Arier |
| Italiano | ario |
| Русский | ари́ец aríjec, ари́йка aríjka |
| العربية | آرِيّ ʔāriyy |
noun in ethnography, a subdivision of the Caucasian race
| हिन्दी | आर्य ārya |
|---|---|
| Português | ariano |
| Français | Aryen, Arien |
| Deutsch | Arier, Arierin |
| Italiano | ario |
| Русский | ари́ец aríjec, ари́йка aríjka |
adj pertaining to the (alleged) Aryan master race
| Español | ario |
|---|---|
| Português | ariano |
| Français | aryen, aryaque |
| Deutsch | arisch |
| Italiano | ariano |
| Română | arian |
| Русский | ари́йский aríjskij |
| العربية | آرِيّ ʔāriyy |
adj used primarily by neo-Nazis: pertaining to the Caucasian race
| Português | ariano |
|---|---|
| Français | arien |
| Deutsch | arisch |
| Italiano | ariano |
adj of or pertaining to Indo-European or Aryan peoples, culture, and languages
| हिन्दी | आर्य ārya |
|---|---|
| Português | ariano |
| Français | aryen, indo-européen, indo-germanique |
| Deutsch | arisch |
| Italiano | ariano |
| العربية | آرِيّ ʔāriyy |
adj of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, culture, and languages
| हिन्दी | आर्य ārya |
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