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

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