Ary·an /ˈæriən, ˈɛr; ˈɑrjən/
印歐語,印歐語系的人,亞利安人(a.)亞利安語系的,印歐語系的
Ar·yan n.
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 a. Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
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Aryan
adj : of or relating to the former Indo-European people;
"Indo-European migrations" [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Aryan]
n 1: (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic
descent (and not a Jew)
2: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo
European [syn: Indo-European]