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Aryan
Ar′yan
(är′yan or ăr′ĭ-an)
, Noun.
[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.] 1.
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.
2.
The language of the original Aryans.
[Written also
Arian
.] Ar′yan
(är′yan or ăr′ĭ-an)
, Adj.
Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic;
as, the
. Aryan
stock, the Aryan
languages