arjalainen — 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
arjalainen is used for these senses in English:
- Aryan (theosophy, Germanic, _, mysticism, Nazism) 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
Aryan — full definition
- noun In linguistics, a now largely retired term for the Indo-Iranian branch of languages, or more loosely the wider Indo-European language family.
- 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.