name
Indian
Aryan
AR-yun
/ˈɑːrjən/Listen
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Syllable breakdown
aryan
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Sanskrit/Hindi (India)
- Meaning
- Noble; honorable; of the Aryan people
- Gender
- male
Pronunciation tips
An ancient Sanskrit term meaning 'noble'; note the term was later distorted by 19th-century European racial pseudoscience; in South Asia it retains its original Sanskrit meaning
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