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آرِيّ
Aryan (relating to the ancient Indo-Iranian peoples or their languages) /ʔaː.ˈrijj/
adjectiveB2#3734 most common
Also: Indo-Iranian, of Aryan descent
Example sentences
هو آريّ الأصل.
He is of Aryan origin.
تُنطق اللغات الآرية في مناطق واسعة من آسيا وأوروبا.
The Aryan languages are spoken across wide areas of Asia and Europe.
يرى بعض المؤرخين أن الشعوب الآرية هاجرت من آسيا الوسطى.
Some historians believe the Aryan peoples migrated from Central Asia.
استخدم النازيون مصطلح "العرق الآري" لتبرير أيديولوجيتهم العنصرية.
The Nazis used the term "the Aryan race" to justify their racist ideology.
كان مصطلح آريّ في الأصل تسمية لغوية أطلقها الباحثون على مجموعة اللغات الهندية الأوروبية قبل أن يُستغل سياسياً.
The term "Aryan" was originally a linguistic label that scholars gave to the Indo-European language group before it was politically exploited.
على الرغم من أن الأصل الآريّ للغات الهندية الإيرانية مفهوم علميّ راسخ، فإن توظيفه في الخطاب العنصري شوّه دلالته الأكاديمية بشكل كبير.
Although the Aryan origin of the Indo-Iranian languages is a well-established scientific concept, its use in racist discourse has badly distorted its academic meaning.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | آريٌّ | آريّون |
| Genitive | آريٍّ | آريّين |
| Accusative | آريّاً | آريّين |
| Vocative | يا آريّ | يا آريّون |
Word family
الآريونthe Aryans (the people)
آريّةAryan (feminine form)
الآريةAryanism (the racial ideology)
غير آريnon-Aryan
Etymology
The word is a loanword adapted into Arabic from "Aryan." It traces back to Sanskrit ā́rya and Avestan airya, terms ancient Indo-Iranian speakers used for themselves, meaning roughly "noble" or "of our own people." Arabic took the name آريا and formed the relative adjective آريّ by adding the nisba suffix -iyy. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the term entered European racial theory and was later notoriously appropriated by the Nazis.
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