Definitions for Aryan

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Aryan Ar·y·an

Spelling: [air-ee-uh n, air-yuh n, Aryan is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in Aryan (aanry).

Definitions for Aryan

noun

1. Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
2. (in Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian, especially of Nordic stock.
3. (formerly) Indo-European.
4. (formerly) Indo-Iranian.

adjective

1. of or relating to an Aryan or the Aryans.
2. (formerly) Indo-European.
3. (formerly) Indo-Iranian.

Origin of Aryan

1785-95; Sanskrit ārya of high rank (adj.), aristocrat (noun) + -an

Examples for Aryan

And white supremacists continue to advocate for a homeland in the Pacific Northwest for “the Aryan peoples of the earth.”

Those of Yezd have, according to Khanikoff, Aryan characteristics.

In all Aryan worships there are sacrifices of various kinds and degrees of importance.

The region is marketed for visitors as “Aryan Valley,” and many citizens have taken to tacking on “Aryan” to their last names.

It fosters sentiments which have been the strength of Aryan society in all lands.

His work was more monumental, more violent, and promoted the Aryan struggle.

Indian religion is a variety of Indo-Iranian, which is a variety of the Aryan type.

The Aryan race was superior, the Jews were the enemy, and the Jews had to be destroyed.

But the worship of which blood is the tie is not to the Aryan, as to the Semite, the whole of religion.

This was later repurposed in Europe as an explanation for racial superiority, and the term “Aryan” came to define a white race.