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 Definitions of Aryan  [ˈɛər i ən, -yən, ˈær-, ˈɑr yən]  

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Definition of 'Aryan' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Aryan
a speaker of the languages ancestral to the Indo-Aryan or the Indo-Iranian languages.

2.  Aryan
(formerly) a speaker of Proto-Indo-European; an Indo-European.

3.  Aryan
(formerly)

4.  Aryan
(in Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. of Nordic stock.

5. (adj.) Aryan
of or pertaining to an Aryan or the Aryans.

6.  Aryan
of or pertaining to Aryan as a language group.

Etymology:  (1785–95; < Skt ārya of high rank (adj.), noble (n.) + -an1)

Definition of 'Aryan' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Aryan
(according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)

2. (adj) Aryan, Indo-European
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

3. (adj) Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Aryan
of or relating to the former Indo-European people
"Indo-European migrations"


Definition of 'Aryan' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Aryan
of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages

2. (noun) Aryan
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

3. (noun) Aryan
the language of the original Aryans



'Aryan' - Nearby Entries  

aruru  arvicola  arvicola amphibius  aryan  arytaenoid  arytenoid  arytenoid cartilage  



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