Aryan
English
/ˈɛəɹi.ən/
noun
Definitions
- (theosophy) A member of an alleged master race with no fixed definition, comprising people of Germanic descent (in the narrowest sense), or all non-Jewish Caucasians (in the broadest sense)
- (Nazi or white supremacist ideology) A person of Caucasian ethnicity; a white non-Jew.
- (chiefly) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
- (dated) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
- (dated) An Indo-Iranian.
- (ethnography) A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.
Etymology
Derived from Sanskrit आर्य (noble, noble one, noble noble one) derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas (Aryan).
Origin
Proto-Indo-Iranian
*áryas
Gloss
Aryan
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Arya English
- Aryanization English
- Aryanize English
- Aryanness English
- Graeco-Aryan English
- Indo-Aryan English
- Indo-Aryanist English
- un-Aryan English
- Arier German
- arisch German
- ario Spanish, Castilian
- *wiHrós Proto-Indo-European
- आर्य Sanskrit
- árijský Czech
- आर्य Hindi
- आर्यमन Hindi
- ario Galician
- อารย Thai
- อารยะ Thai
- arya Indonesian
- ఆర్యులు Telugu
- ariya Pali
- ayya Pali
- *aryamā́ Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *áryas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- អរិយ Central Khmer
- *áryas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- آریامن Urdu
- 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹 Old Persian
- ಆರ್ಯ Kannada
- 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 Avestan
- *orja urj-fpr-pro
- эла Chechen
- аьла Ingush
- ალე Bats