aryans

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plural of Aryan
Aryan
Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages

ith all due deference to the opinions of scholars, it may be urged that much of this elaborate development arose in an age when the speech of the people had wandered very far away from the classical type. Even if it were not so, even if there ever were a time when the Aryan peasant used poly-syllabic desideratives, and was familiar with multiform aorists, it is clear that he began to satisfy himself with a simpler system at a very distant epoch, for the range of forms in Pali and the other Prakrits is far narrower than in classical Sanskrit.

Aryan
An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European

We have seen that when the Goths first entered Roman territory they were driven on by a vast migration of the Asiatic Huns. These wild and hideous tribes then appeared upon the Rhine, and in enormous numbers penetrated Gaul. No people had yet understood them, none had even checked their career. The white races seemed helpless against this yellow peril, this Scourge of God, as Attila was called. Goths and Romans and all the varied tribes which were ranging in perturbed whirl through unhappy Gaul laid aside their lesser enmities and met in common cause against this terrible invader. The battle of Châlons, 451, was the most tremendous struggle in which Turanian was ever matched against Aryan, the one huge bid of the stagnant, unprogressive races, for earth’s mastery.

Aryan
Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity

Neo-Nazis use Nordic religions to fashion a more noble Aryan past and a modern Pan-Aryan community. Symbols from and references to ancient spirituality pepper neo-Nazi literature.

Aryan
A person of Caucasian ethnicity; a white non-Jew
Aryan
A member of an (alleged) master race comprised of non-Jewish Caucasians, especially those of Nordic or Germanic descent
Aryan
A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense
Aryan
Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race
Aryan
{i} member of or descended from a people who spoke Indo-European languages; non-Jewish Caucasian (according to Nazi doctrine)
Aryan
An Indo-Iranian
Aryan
{s} of or pertaining to a people who spoke Indo-European languages; of or pertaining to the Aryans
Aryan
A subdivision of the Caucasian race, which comprised the Aryans, the Semites, and the Hamites, or the accompanying linguistic subdivision
Aryan
Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages
Aryan
Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc
Aryan
someone from Northern Europe, especially someone with blond hair and blue eyes (arya ). Prehistoric people who settled in Iran and northern India. From their language, also called Aryan, the Indo-European languages of South Asia are descended. In the 19th century there arose a notion, propagated by the count de Gobineau and later by his disciple Houston Stewart Chamberlain, of an "Aryan race": people who spoke Indo-European, especially Germanic, languages and lived in northern Europe. The "Aryan race" was considered to be superior to all other peoples. Although this notion was repudiated by numerous scholars, including Franz Boas, the notion was seized on by Adolf Hitler and made the basis of the Nazi policy of exterminating Jews, Gypsies (Roma), and other "non-Aryans." See also racism
aryan
of or referring to those tribes or cultures of Central Asia who invaded and conquered the Indian subcontinent, bringing with them much of what we know today as the Vedic literature and theology of the Hindu tradition Aryan literally means "noble "
aryan
The language of the original Aryans
aryan
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)
aryan
The name of the warrior-dominated, patriarchal people who entered India from the northwest after 2000 B C E The name of the warrior-dominated, patriarchal people who entered India from the northwest after 2000 B C E
aryan
of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations"
aryan
A term used by the German Nazi government to refer to Caucasians of the Nordic type Originally, the term referred to persons who speak an Indo-European language
aryan
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
aryan
not to be confused with modern white power movements who have distorted the meaning of what is essentially an archaic linguistic term "Aryan" meant warrior in Indo-European, and refers to the peoples who settled Europe and Central Asia The words "Iran," and "Eire" (Ireland) are related These people honored fire, lived close to nature, and worshiped a pantheon of gods which included, under various names, Loki, a joker, Thor, a god of thunder, and Odin, the god of war
aryan
(according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)
aryan
Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages
aryan
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
aryan
Light skinned migrating people, perhaps from Europe, who settled in India around 1500 BCE and instituted Vedic Hinduism