What does aryan mean?

Definitions for aryan
ˈɛər i ən, -yən, ˈær-, ˈɑr yənaryan

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Aryannoun

    (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)

  2. Aryan, Indo-Europeanadjective

    a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

  3. Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Aryanadjective

    of or relating to the former Indo-European people

    "Indo-European migrations"

Wiktionary

  1. Aryannoun

    A member of an (alleged) master race comprised of non-Jewish Caucasians, especially those of Nordic or Germanic descent.

  2. Aryannoun

    A person of Caucasian ethnicity; a white non-Jew.

  3. Aryannoun

    A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.

  4. Aryannoun

    An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.

  5. Aryannoun

    An Indo-Iranian.

  6. Aryannoun

    A subdivision of the Caucasian race, which comprised the Aryans, the Semites, and the Hamites, or the accompanying linguistic subdivision.

  7. Aryanadjective

    Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.

  8. Aryanadjective

    Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.

  9. Aryanadjective

    Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.

  10. Aryanadjective

    Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.

  11. Aryanadjective

    Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.

Wikipedia

  1. Aryan

    Aryan or Arya (; Indo-Iranian *arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (*an-arya). In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self-designation) and in reference to a region known as Āryāvarta ('abode of the Aryas'), where the Indo-Aryan culture emerged. In the Avesta scriptures, ancient Iranian peoples similarly used the term airya to designate themselves as an ethnic group, and in reference to their mythical homeland, Airyanǝm Vaēǰō ('expanse of the Aryas' or 'stretch of the Aryas'). The stem also forms the etymological source of place names such as Iran (*Aryānām) and Alania (*Aryāna-).Although the stem *arya may be of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) origin, its use as an ethnocultural self-designation is only attested among Indo-Iranian peoples, and it is not known if PIE speakers had a term to designate themselves as 'Proto-Indo-Europeans'. In any case, scholars point out that, even in ancient times, the idea of being an Aryan was religious, cultural, and linguistic, not racial.In the 1850s, the term 'Aryan' was adopted as a racial category by French writer Arthur de Gobineau, who, through the later works of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, influenced the Nazi racial ideology. Under Nazi rule (1933–1945), the term applied to most inhabitants of Germany excluding Jews and Slavs such as Czechs, Poles or Russians. Those classified as 'non-Aryans,' especially Jews, were discriminated against before suffering the systematic mass killing known as the Holocaust. The atrocities committed in the name of Aryanist supremacist ideologies have led academics to generally avoid the term 'Aryan', which has been replaced in most cases by 'Indo-Iranian', although the South Asian branch is still known as 'Indo-Aryan'.

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  1. aryan

    Aryan is a term originating from the Sanskrit word "ārya," which traditionally means 'noble' or 'honorable.' Historically, it has been used to denote various things, including a group of Indo-European languages — also known as Indo-Aryan languages, a racial grouping used in the late 19th to mid 20th century to describe Caucasoid peoples, and a controversial racial ideology propagated by the Nazis who defined 'Aryans' as the master race of non-Semitic, non-Jewish, Nordic-type white Europeans. However, it's important to note that modern scientific consensus rejects the notion of Aryan as a racial group due to lack of supporting genetic and archaeological evidence.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Aryannoun

    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

  2. Aryannoun

    the language of the original Aryans

  3. Aryanadjective

    of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages

  4. Etymology: [Skr. rya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia.]

Wikidata

  1. Aryan

    "Aryan" is an English language loanword derived from the Sanskrit ārya. In present-day academia, the terms "Indo-Iranian" and "Indo-European" have, according to many, made most uses of the term 'Aryan' minimal, and 'Aryan' is now mostly limited to its appearance in the term "Indo-Aryan" for Indic languages and their speakers. Western notions of an "Aryan race" rose to prominence in late-19th and early-20th century racialist thought, an idea most notably embraced by Nazi ideology. The Nazis believed that the "Nordic peoples" represent an ideal and "pure race" that was the purest representation of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans. The Nazis declared that the Nordics were the true Aryans because they claimed that they were more "pure" than other people of what were then called the Aryan people.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Aryan

    ar′i-an, or ā′ri-an, adj. relating to the family of nations otherwise called Indo-European (comprehending the inhabitants of Europe—except the Basques, Turks, Magyars, and Finns—and those of Armenia, Persia, and North Hindustan), or to their languages—Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, Lettic.—v.t. Aryanise′. [L. arianus, belonging to Ariana or Aria (Gr. Areia), the east part of Ancient Persia—Sans. Arya (cf. Old Pers. Ariya, and Irān, Persia), often traced to a root ar, plough.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ARYAN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Aryan is ranked #69170 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Aryan surname appeared 284 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Aryan.

    67.2% or 191 total occurrences were White.
    14% or 40 total occurrences were Asian.
    13.3% or 38 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    4.5% or 13 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. nary a

  2. nayar

  3. rayan

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of aryan in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of aryan in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of aryan in a Sentence

  1. Dan Aykroyd:

    These people, they’re insignificant gnats, they’re losers, they have no lives of their own, they can probably barely pay for the wifi they’re using, probably no jobs. I would say you’re looking at obese white men between 50 and 60 who are active Klan members or members of the Aryan Nation and there are millions of them.

  2. David Duke:

    Every Aryan must come to realize.

  3. Blake Flayton:

    If Adolf Hitler had an Instagram account, the Holocaust would have happened a lot quicker, because the public would have been convinced a lot sooner, that the Jews were plotting to overthrow Germany, and weed out the Aryan race and take over Europe.

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