Arya (arya)

[Skt. Arya: see Aryan.] Same as Aryan. But besides these Aryas there were also the Dasyus, of whom we learn little but that they were dark in complexion and constantly at war with the Aryas. J. Robson, Hinduism, p. 13. Aryan (är'yan or ar'ian), a. and n. [Also written Arian, after L. Arianus, belonging to Ariana or Aria, Gr. Ἀρεία, Ἀρία, or " Ἄρια, the eastern part of ancient Persia, Our faith, our customs, our language, were all but fragments of the primitive Aryan stock common to Rome and Germany. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 118. II. n. 1. A member of the eastern or Asiatic division of the Indo-European family, occupying the territories between Me so pot am i a and the Bay of Bengal, in the two subdivisions of Persia, or Iran, and India. [This is the older, more scientific, and still widely current use of the word. More recent, but increasingly popular, is the second use.] 2. An Indo-European or Indo-German or Japhetite; a member of that section of the hu man race which includes the Hindus and Irani ans (Persians) as its eastern or Asiatic division, and the Greeks, Italians, Celts, Slavonians, and Germans or Teutons as its western or European division. The languages of all these branches or groups of peoples are akin; that is to say, they are descendants of one original tongue, once spoken in a limited locality by a single community, but where or when it is impo ible to say. Many words still live in India and England that have witne ed the first separation of the northern and southern Aryans , and these are witne es not to be shaken by any cro -examination. The terms for God, for house, for father, mother, son, daughter, for dog and cow, for heart and tears, for axe and tree, identical in all the Indo-European idioms, are like the watchwords of soldiers. We challenge the seeming stranger; and whether he answer with the lips of a Greek, a German, or an Indian, we recognize him as one of ourselves. There was a time when the ancestors of the Celts, the Germans, the Slavonians, the Greeks and Italians, the Persians and Hindus, were living together beneath the same roof, separate from the ancestors of the Semitic and Turanian races. Max Müller . Aryandic (är-yan'dik), a . Originating with Aryandes, Persian satrap of Egypt, condemned to death by Darius for coining silver finer than that of the great king himself.-Aryandic coin, Aryanize (är'yan-iz or ar'ian-iz), v. t .; pret. and pp. Aryanized , ppr. A ryan i zing . [ Aryan + -ize .] To render Aryan in character or appearance; impart Aryan peculiarities to. [Rare.] a coin struck by Aryandes. European artists who have not lived among the African race sometimes try their hands at a pretty negre , but they always Aryanize the type. G. Allen , Physiol. Esthetics, p. 241. aryballus (ar-i-bal'us), n.; pl. aryballi (-1). [ Archaic Aryballus. IMG:content-1206.png:[blocks in formation] verb in the relative clause, when the same as in the principal clause, being usually omitted: as, it is as cold as ice (sc. is); come as soon as you can (sc. come). rounded by a broad flat rim, used like the a lab a strum in anointing the body with oil. ary epiglottic (ari-ep-i-glot'ik), a. [ Folds of mucous membrane, extending from the epiglottis to the arytenoid cartilages, are the ary epiglottic ligaments. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 93. a rye pig lot tide an (ar-i-epilottidean (ar-i-epi-glo-tid'e-an), a. Same as aryteno - epiglottic. aryteno-epiglottic (ar-i-te"no-ep-i-glot'ik), a. an aryteno ( id ) 1) + + epiglottic.] epiglottic.] In an at., pertaining to the arytenoid cartilages and the epiglottis. Aryteno-epiglottic fold, one of two folds of mu cous membrane pa ing from the tips of the arytenoid cartilages and the cornicula laryngis to the lateral margins of the epiglottis.