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aryan

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1. aryan - Noun

2. aryan - Adjective

3. Aryan - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

The language of the original Aryans.

Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan. Baldur von Schirach

Though it were proved that there was never an Aryan race in the past, yet we desire that in the future there may be one. This is the decisive standpoint for men of action. Houston Stewart Chamberlain

The fact that Communism and Fascism assigned contradictory roles to history and reason-the emancipation of the proletariat versus the domination of the Aryan race-mattered little. Francois Furet

The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber (from the Aryan family) and his veins are so full of Gothic blood that even at the present day noble inhabitants of Morocco can trace their descent back to Teutonic ancestors. Houston Stewart Chamberlain

The Hindu religion in its popular expression, as one can see it, is in sum the pre-Byzantine Greek religion, and all the ancient Aryan religions of Europe, minus the tribal spirit and, generally, plus the goodness and the respect for all beings. Savitri Devi

There, in Europe, we really have an invasion of Aryans moving in from the east. And now that we know what a real Aryan invasion looks like, we note that it is completely missing in India. Koenraad Elst

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