Arya
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from SanskritCategory:English terms borrowed from Sanskrit#ARYACategory:English terms derived from Sanskrit#ARYA आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ARYA.
Alternative forms
Noun
Arya (plural Aryas)Category:English lemmas#ARYACategory:English nouns#ARYACategory:English countable nouns#ARYACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ARYACategory:Pages with entries#ARYACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ARYA
- An Indo-Iranian, an Aryan.
- 1868, Mrs. L. Handyside, The History of India, page 5:
- The Aryas gradually spread themselves over the plain of the Ganges. After a time, the whole country between the Himalayas and the Vindhya Mountains was called Aryavarta, the abode of the Aryas.Category:English terms with quotations#ARYA
- A follower of Arya Samaj.
- 1892, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, page 470:
- The Brahmos are chiefly in Bengal, the Aryas in the North-West and the Punjab.Category:English terms with quotations#ARYA
- 1984, Ganga Ram Garg, World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Concept Publishing Company, page 165:
- Above all, he would not tolerate the abominable injustice of the existence of untouchables, and nobody has been a more ardent champion of their outraged rights. They were admitted to the Arya Samaj on a basis of equality; for the Aryas are not a caste. ‘The Aryas are all men of superior principles; and the Dasyus are they who lead a life of wickedness and sin.’Category:English terms with quotations#ARYA
Proper noun
AryaCategory:English lemmas#ARYACategory:English proper nouns#ARYACategory:English uncountable nouns#ARYACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ARYACategory:Pages with entries#ARYACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ARYA
Etymology 2
Borrowed from SanskritCategory:English terms borrowed from Sanskrit#ARYACategory:English terms derived from Sanskrit#ARYA आर्या (āryā), feminine of आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ARYA.
Proper noun
AryaCategory:English lemmas#ARYACategory:English proper nouns#ARYACategory:English uncountable nouns#ARYACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ARYACategory:Pages with entries#ARYACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ARYA
- A female given name from SanskritCategory:English given names#ARYACategory:English female given names#ARYACategory:English female given names from Sanskrit#ARYA.
- 1999, Mark Seem, Acupuncture Physical Medicine, →ISBN:
- Arya Nielsen, a senior clinical faculty member at our Institute, has also demonstrated this in her excellent work on surface stimulation […]Category:English terms with quotations#ARYA
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Arya.
- A surnameCategory:English surnames#ARYA.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Arya.
Usage notes
- The given name was taken to use in the western world in the 21st century, partly by the book series Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, and A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin; partly as a variant of the more popular Aria.
Translations
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Anagrams
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Etymology
Borrowed from JavaneseCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Javanese#ARYACategory:Indonesian terms derived from Javanese#ARYA ꦄꦂꦪ (arya), from SanskritCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit#ARYA आर्य (ā́rya, “noble; noble one”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ARYA.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈarja/Category:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#ARYA
- Hyphenation: ar‧ya
Proper noun
AryaCategory:Indonesian lemmas#ARYACategory:Indonesian proper nouns#ARYACategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#ARYACategory:Pages with entries#ARYACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ARYA
Noun
AryaCategory:Indonesian lemmas#ARYACategory:Indonesian nouns#ARYACategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#ARYACategory:Pages with entries#ARYACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ARYA
Further reading
- “Arya”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Javanese
Romanization
AryaCategory:Javanese non-lemma forms#ARYACategory:Javanese romanizations#ARYACategory:Javanese terms with redundant script codes#ARYACategory:Javanese entries with incorrect language header#ARYACategory:Pages with entries#ARYACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ARYA
- romanization of ꦄꦂꦪ
Turkish
Proper noun
AryaCategory:Turkish lemmas#ARYACategory:Turkish proper nouns#ARYACategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#ARYACategory:Pages with entries#ARYACategory:Pages with 4 entries#ARYA