Aryan

Etymology
From. The Sanskrit word is from  (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 that connected the Indo-Iranian words arya/ā́rya with German  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 for further details).

The same Proto-Indo-Iranian root is the ultimate source of the country name.

Noun

 * 1)  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) * 1925–26,, ', translation from German to English by James Murphy, 1939'''
 * This short sketch of the changes that take place among those races that are only the depositories of a culture also furnishes a picture of the development and the activity and the disappearance of those who are the true founders of culture on this earth, namely the Aryans themselves.
 * 1)  A person of Caucasian (white / Northern European) ethnicity; a white non-Jew.
 * 2)  A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
 * 3)  An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
 * 4) * 1905, Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., chief editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume IV
 * We have seen that when the Goths first entered Roman territory they were driven on by a vast migration of the Asiatic Huns. These wild and hideous tribes then appeared upon the Rhine, and in enormous numbers penetrated Gaul. No people had yet understood them, none had even checked their career. The white races seemed helpless against this "yellow peril", this "Scourge of God", as Attila was called. Goths and Romans and all the varied tribes which were ranging in perturbed whirl through unhappy Gaul laid aside their lesser enmities and met in common cause against this terrible invader. The battle of Châlons, 451, was the most tremendous struggle in which Turanian was ever matched against Aryan, the one huge bid of the stagnant, unprogressive races, for earth’s mastery.
 * 1)  An Indo-Iranian.
 * 2)  A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.
 * We have seen that when the Goths first entered Roman territory they were driven on by a vast migration of the Asiatic Huns. These wild and hideous tribes then appeared upon the Rhine, and in enormous numbers penetrated Gaul. No people had yet understood them, none had even checked their career. The white races seemed helpless against this "yellow peril", this "Scourge of God", as Attila was called. Goths and Romans and all the varied tribes which were ranging in perturbed whirl through unhappy Gaul laid aside their lesser enmities and met in common cause against this terrible invader. The battle of Châlons, 451, was the most tremendous struggle in which Turanian was ever matched against Aryan, the one huge bid of the stagnant, unprogressive races, for earth’s mastery.
 * 1)  An Indo-Iranian.
 * 2)  A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.

Usage notes

 * In popular conception, the Aryan racial type is marked by blond hair and blue eyes, but these are not criteria of any of the technical racial definitions.
 * The Nazi and neo-Nazi racial senses are the only ones familiar to most speakers. The other senses ("Indo-Iranian", "Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European", and "subdivision of Caucasian") are not likely to be understood. Because of this, and because the term carries a strong emotional charge, the technical senses are perhaps best avoided outside of academic contexts where they are certain to be understood, and the racial senses connected with Nazism are perhaps best avoided altogether.
 * Neo-Nazis generally do not intend Aryan to be pejorative, but it can be taken as such outside of the neo-Nazi community, because of the term’s heavy use by and association with the Nazis. Indeed, because neo-Nazis are the main users of the term, it is sometimes used by non-Nazis as a euphemism for ‘white racist’.

Translations

 * Arabic: آرِيّ, آرِيَّة
 * Armenian: արիացի
 * Avestan: 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀
 * Belarusian: ары́ец, ары́йка
 * Bulgarian: ариец, ари́йка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: arier
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, Arierin
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: アーリア人
 * Korean: ^아리아-인
 * Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭫
 * Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹
 * Parthian: 𐭀𐭓𐭉
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, Aryjka
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ȃrijevac
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Aryo
 * Ukrainian: арі́єць,


 * Dutch:


 * Arabic: آرِيّ
 * Armenian: արիացի
 * Old Armenian: արի
 * Avestan: 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀
 * Czech: Árijec
 * Danish: arier
 * Dutch:, Indo-Iraan
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Marathi: आर्य
 * Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭫
 * Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹
 * Parthian: 𐭀𐭓𐭉
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ȃrijevac
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: Ориёӣ


 * Arabic: آرِيّ
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: arier
 * Dutch:, Indo-Iraan, Indo-Germaan, , Proto-Indo-Europeaan
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ȃrijevac
 * Swedish:


 * Burmese:
 * Danish: arier
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, Arierin
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:
 * Khmer:
 * Lao: ອາລິຍະ
 * Pali: ariya
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ȃrijevac
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
 * 2) * 1925–26, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, translation from German to English by James Murphy, 1939
 * Look at the ravages from which our people are suffering daily as a result of being contaminated with Jewish blood. Bear in mind the fact that this poisonous contamination can be eliminated from the national body only after centuries, or perhaps never. Think further of how the process of racial decomposition is debasing and in some cases even destroying the fundamental Aryan qualities of our German people, so that our cultural creativeness as a nation is gradually becoming impotent and we are running the danger, at least in our great cities, of falling to the level where Southern Italy is to-day.
 * 1)  Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.
 * 2)  Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.
 * 3) Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.
 * 4) * 1872-79: John Beames, A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: to wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Bangall
 * [W]ith all due deference to the opinions of scholars, it may be urged that much of this elaborate development arose in an age when the speech of the people had wandered very far away from the classical type. Even if it were not so, even if there ever were a time when the Aryan peasant used poly-syllabic desideratives, and was familiar with multiform aorists, it is clear that he began to satisfy himself with a simpler system at a very distant epoch, for the range of forms in Pali and the other Prakrits is far narrower than in classical Sanskrit.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.
 * 2) * 1905, Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., chief editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume IV
 * Who were these Teutons? Rome knew them only vaguely as wild tribes dwelling in the gloom of the great forest wilderness. In reality they were but the vanguard of vast races of human beings who through ages had been slowly populating all Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Beyond the Teutons were other Aryans, the Slavs. Beyond these were vague non-Aryan races like the Huns.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.
 * 2) * 1905, Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., chief editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume IV
 * Who were these Teutons? Rome knew them only vaguely as wild tribes dwelling in the gloom of the great forest wilderness. In reality they were but the vanguard of vast races of human beings who through ages had been slowly populating all Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Beyond the Teutons were other Aryans, the Slavs. Beyond these were vague non-Aryan races like the Huns.
 * Who were these Teutons? Rome knew them only vaguely as wild tribes dwelling in the gloom of the great forest wilderness. In reality they were but the vanguard of vast races of human beings who through ages had been slowly populating all Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Beyond the Teutons were other Aryans, the Slavs. Beyond these were vague non-Aryan races like the Huns.

Translations

 * Arabic: آرِيّ
 * Belarusian: ары́йскі
 * Bulgarian: арийски
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: árijský
 * Danish: arisk
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Marathi: आर्यन
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: árijský
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Bulgarian: арийски
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: arisk
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Marathi: आर्यन
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Marathi: आर्यन


 * Hindi:


 * Arabic: آرِيّ
 * Bulgarian: арийски, индоевропейски
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: arisk
 * Dutch:, Indo-Iraans, , , Indo-Germaans
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:
 * Marathi: आर्य
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: arisk
 * Nynorsk: arisk
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Persian:
 * Telugu:

Proper noun

 * 1) The language of the original Aryans.