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Aryan

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

Ar=y=an

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Aryan has 2 senses

aryan(n = noun.person) - (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew);

aryan(n = noun.person) indo-european - a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European;

is a kind of primitive, primitive person

Derived form adjective aryan₁

Adjective Aryan has 1 sense

aryan(a = adj.pert) indo-aryan, indo-european - of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations"

Derived form noun aryan₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Aryan, n. [Skr. ārya 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.].

One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic. [1913 Webster]
The language of the original Aryans. [1913 Webster]
a non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; -- a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis. [PJC]

Aryan, a.

Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Aryan, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a member of the peoples speaking any of the languages of the Indo-European (esp. Indo-Iranian) family.
2 the parent language of this family.
3 improperly. (in Nazi ideology) a Caucasian not of Jewish descent.
--adj. of or relating to Aryan or the Aryans.

Etymology

Skr. aryas noble

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