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আর্য — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Aryan noun In linguistics, a now largely retired term for the Indo-Iranian branch of languages, or more loosely the wider Indo-European language family.

Senses

আর্য is used for these senses in English:

  • Aryan a member of the supposed Aryan race

Aryan — full definition

  1. noun In linguistics, a now largely retired term for the Indo-Iranian branch of languages, or more loosely the wider Indo-European language family.
  2. noun A discredited 19th- and 20th-century racial category once used to claim a "Nordic" or "Caucasian" master race; the term is strongly associated with Nazi ideology.