Aryan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A member of a race defined variously as comprising people of Germanic descent, in the narrowest sense, or all non-Jewish Caucasians, in the broadest sense

   “This short sketch of the changes that take place among those races that are only the depositories of a culture also furnishes a picture of the development and the activity and the disappearance of those who are the true founders of culture on this earth, namely the Aryans themselves.”

2. isim A person of Caucasian (white / Northern European) ethnicity; a white non-Jew.

   “One transmission advantage may have been that espousing Aryan-supremacist and overtly Nazi ideology could have been a roundabout way of announcing, […]”

3. isim A Caucasian racist, often one who is an Aryan in the first sense.
4. isim An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
5. isim An Indo-Iranian.
6. isim An Indo-Aryan.

   “The theories of advocates of an autochthonous origin of the Indo-Aryans (always called "Aryans") range from (1) a mild version, insisting on the origin of the Ṛgvedic Indo-Aryans in the Panjab, the "autochthonous" or indigenous school…”

7. isim A subdivision of the Caucasian racial and linguistic grouping, when that grouping is defined as consisting of Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.

   “[The] Caucasian race includes two sub-races, — the Xantho-chroic and Melanochroic of Huxley. The seat of this race is Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, its linguistic division being into Aryans, Semites, and Hamites.”

8. sıfat Pertaining, in racial theories, to the (alleged) Aryan master race.
9. sıfat 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.”

10. sıfat Pertaining to Caucasian racists or their organisations, theories, etc.

    “Imagine our outrage if the foreign press depicted Aryan groups as representing mainstream Christianity.”

11. sıfat Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.

    “She was very graceful with a very Aryan face, Ringa observed, and the red and white silk sari she was wearing blended exquisitely with her small daintiness.”

12. sıfat Of or pertaining to Indo-European peoples, cultures and languages.
13. özel isim The language of the original Aryans.
14. özel isim A male given name of Indian usage.