Aryan

adjective

1. Obsolete designating or of the Indo-European language family
2. Obsolete Indo-Iranian
3. 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

1. Obsolete the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European family
2. 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.