Aryan
/ˈɛəri.ən//ˈɛri.ən/
- n.
- 印欧语系的人,雅利安人
- adj.
- 雅利安人的,印欧语系语言的
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- iir-pro
*áryas
派生
- 英语English
Aryan
词源说明
Originally from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble; noble one”) and + -n. The Sanskrit word is an autonym originally from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas (see there for more). Borrowed into English in the 19th century, at first as a term for the Indo-Iranian languages, and later partly extended to the Indo-European languages and peoples following a theory by Friedrich Schlegel that connected the Indo-Iranian words arya/ā́rya with German Ehre (“honor”) and some older Germanic names, thus assuming that it was the original Indo-European autonym meaning "the honorable people". The original meaning of the Indo-Iranian autonym and its possible Indo-European origin/cognates are disputed (see the Wikipedia article for further details).
The same Proto-Indo-Iranian root is the ultimate source of the country name Iran. Also the doublet of Arya.
释义
名词noun
- 1In reference to a pseudoscientific historical race theory:
- 2(linguistics, historical, dated) Synonym of Indo-Iranian (“member of any peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.”)
形容词adjective
- 1In reference to a pseudoscientific