Aryan Definition
Ary·an (ar′ē ən, er′-)
adjective
- Obsolete designating or of the Indo-European language family
- Obsolete Indo-Iranian
- of the Aryans
Etymology: < Sans āzya-, noble (used as tribal name to distinguish from indigenous races) > Avestan airya-nam, Iran; ? akin to Gr aristos, best or Hittite arawa-, free
noun
- Obsolete the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European family
- a person belonging to, or supposed to be a descendant of, the prehistoric peoples that spoke this language: Aryan has no validity as an ethnological term, but it has been so used, notoriously by the Nazis, to mean“a Caucasoid of non-Jewish descent,” “a person of Nordic descent,” etc.
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