aryan
IPA: ˈɑriʌn
Root Word: Aryan
noun
- (theosophy, Germanic mysticism, Nazism) A member of an alleged master race with no fixed definition, comprising people of Germanic descent (in the narrowest sense), or all non-Jewish Caucasians (in the broadest sense)
- (Nazism or white supremacy, informal) A person of Caucasian (white / European) ethnicity; a white non-Jew.
- (chiefly US, informal, euphemistic) A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
- (dated) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
- (dated) An Indo-Iranian.
- (ethnography, dated) A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.
- The language of the original Aryans.
adjective
- Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
- (neo-Nazi or white supremacist ideology, informal) Pertaining to the Caucasian ethnicity.
- (US, informal, euphemistic) Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.
- Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.
- (dated) Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.
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