Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Aryan"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aryan \Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), a.
Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European;
Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aryan \Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), n. [Skr. [=a]rya
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 Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan
Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang
the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic,
Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological
division of mankind called also Indo-European or
Indo-Germanic.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Aryan
adj : of or relating to the former Indo-European people;
"Indo-European migrations" [syn: {Indo-European}, {Indo-Aryan},
{Aryan}]
n 1: (according to Nazi doctrine) a non-Jewish Caucasian person
of Nordic descent [syn: {Aryan}]
2: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo
European [syn: {Aryan}, {Indo-European}]
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