Aryan

Meaning

Noun

1. (Germanic, Nazism) A member of a race defined variously as comprising people of Germanic descent, in the narrowest sense, or all non-Jewish Caucasians, in the broadest sense
2. (informal) A person of Caucasian (white / Northern European) ethnicity; a white non-Jew.
3. (US, euphemistic, informal) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
4. (dated) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
5. (dated) An Indo-Iranian.
6. (dated) A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.

Adj

1. Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
2. (informal) Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.
3. (US, euphemistic, informal) Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.
4. Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.
5. (dated) Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.

Name

1. The language of the original Aryans.
2. A male given name of Indian usage.

Opposite of

non-Aryan

Synonyms

Indo-European

Iranian

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Hadrian

Indo-Aryan

Aydrean

Adrian

Adryn

Adrain

Adreeyan

Xadrian

Adriano

Adrion

Edrian

Adarian

Adreian

Adiran

Aydreean

Adreean

Aydrian

Aidrian

Adron

Adreyan

Adryan

Adriann

Adrean

Adriean

Dadrian

Aydrien

Adrino

Adrianne

Adriane

Zadrian

Adrin

of noble birth

Indo Aryan

respectable

arya

Translations

ariano

ariano

Arier

ari

Aryen

ario

Arisch

Ariër

arisch

aryen

آرِيّ

arien

Arien

ario

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛəɹi.ən/

Etymology

From Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble; noble one”) + -n. The Sanskrit word is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas (the original Indo-Iranian autonym). 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.