\Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), n. [Skr. [=a]rya
excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran,
and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this
people, at least in Asia.]
1. 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.
2. The language of the original Aryans. [Written also
   {Arian}.]

\Ar"yan\ ([aum]r"yan or [a^]r"[i^]*an), a.
Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European;
Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.