Aryan (disambiguation)

Aryan is a term expressing various ethno-linguistic or racial concepts.

Ethno-linguistic meaning

• Aryan, a term expressing various meanings depending on who is using the term, the date of the publication in which the term is used, and how it is used:
  • Indo-Iranians, the prehistoric people
    • Indo-Aryan languages
    • Indo-Aryan peoples, people speaking the Indo-Aryan languages
    • Iranian languages
    • Iranian peoples, people speaking the Iranian languages
      • People from a small region in eastern Parthia called Aria that was at that time believed to have been the original home of the Persian people
      • People from the larger area that Aria was regarded as a part of, Ariana
      • May be used to refer to the inhabitants of the Sasanian Empire, the name of which in Middle Persian, Eran Shah, means Aryan Empire
  • May be used to refer to the original Proto-Indo-Europeans in works published in the 19th century and early 20th century
  • Aryan race, a concept deriving from the linguistic one, also defined as "pertaining to the original speakers of Indo-European languages (Proto-Indo-Europeans) and their present day descendants"
  • used for the Nordic race (with the Germanic peoples considered its best and "purest" representatives), a racialist concept called "Nordicism" developed by Ariosophy and later adopted by the German National Socialists as part of their controversial master race ideology
  • used in reference to the those defined as the white race in white nationalism, i. e., those peoples belonging to the Western or European branch of the Indo-European peoples
  • Aryan aliens, a synonym for Nordic aliens
• Aryan language (disambiguation)
• Aryan religion (disambiguation)

Films

• Arya (2004 film), a Telugu Tollywood film starring Allu Arjun
• Arya (2007 film), a Tamil film starring R. Madhavan and Bhavana
• Arya 2, a 2009 Telugu film
• Aryan (1988 film)
• Aryan (2014 film)
• Aryan: Unbreakable
• The Aryan, 1915 American silent film

Organizations

• Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda
• Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist street gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States
• Aryan Guard, an Alberta-based group with members primarily located in the city of Calgary
• Aryan League, an Iranian political party
• Aryan Nations, a Christian Identity organization
• White Aryan Resistance, a white separatist organization

People

• Arya (name), Indian given name (including a list of persons with the name)
• Arya (actor) (born 1980), south Indian actor

Places

• Herat, Afghanistan, a city in Northwest Afghanistan
• Varian, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
• Aryan, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Aryan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Arya (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Other uses

• Arya (Buddhism), for the term in Buddhism
• Arya: A Philosophical Review, an Indian monthly periodical published by Hindu philosopher Sri Aurobindo from 1914 to 1921
• Arya metre, a metre used in Sanskrit and Prakrit verse
• Arya F.C., an Iranian football club

See also

• Ari (name) (Aryeh), an Aramaic given name used in a blessing in the Bible
• Aria (disambiguation)
• Arian (disambiguation)
• Ariane (rocket family), a series of space vehicles
• Arrian (86–2nd century), Greek historian
• Aryanization in Nazism was principally used to refer to the expulsion of "non-Aryans"
• Arya Vaisya (disambiguation), several castes