Arya (Aryan)
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Arya (Aryan) is an ancient Indo-Iranian term historically used as a self-designation by certain peoples of the Indian subcontinent and Iran, later associated with ideas of nobility and ethnicity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arya (Aryan) canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Indo-Iranian term
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ethnonym ⓘ self-designation ⓘ |
| appearsInText |
Atharvaveda
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Avesta NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Persian royal inscriptions NERFINISHED ⓘ Rigveda NERFINISHED ⓘ later Sanskrit literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
Aryan ethnicity
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Aryan nobility ⓘ Aryan peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Indo-Iranian ethnonyms
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historical self-designations ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | modern racist concept of a biological Aryan race ⓘ |
| etymologicallyRelatedTo |
Avestan airya
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Old Persian ariya ⓘ Proto-Indo-European root *ar- (to fit, to join, to order) ⓘ Proto-Indo-Iranian *árya- ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Aryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily | Indo-Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasModernInterpretation | marker of cultural-linguistic identity in Indo-Iranian studies ⓘ |
| hasModernMisuse | racial ideology in 19th–20th century Europe ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily |
Indo-Aryan
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Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Bronze Age
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Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedTerm |
Aryan (English)
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Eran (Middle Persian) NERFINISHED ⓘ Iran (endonym Irān from *aryānām) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMeaning |
honourable
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noble ⓘ respectable person ⓘ |
| region |
Greater Iran
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South Asia ⓘ |
| selfDesignationOf |
Vedic Indo-Aryan communities
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ancient Iranian communities ⓘ |
| semanticField |
ethnic identity
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nobility ⓘ social status ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Achaemenid Iranians
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Vedic Indo-Aryans NERFINISHED ⓘ ancient Indo-Aryan peoples ⓘ ancient Iranian peoples ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Indian subcontinent
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Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Avestan
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Classical Sanskrit ⓘ Old Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ Vedic Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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