Arya

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”).

Alternative forms

• Ārya

Noun

Arya (plural Aryas)

1. An Indo-Iranian, an Aryan.
   • 1868, Mrs. L. Handyside, The History of India, page 5:

     The Aryas gradually spread themselves over the plain of the Ganges. After a time, the whole country between the Himalayas and the Vindhya Mountains was called Aryavarta, the abode of the Aryas.

2. A follower of Arya Samaj.
   • 1892, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, page 470:

     The Brahmos are chiefly in Bengal, the Aryas in the North-West and the Punjab.

   • 1984, Ganga Ram Garg, World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Concept Publishing Company, page 165:

     Above all, he would not tolerate the abominable injustice of the existence of untouchables, and nobody has been a more ardent champion of their outraged rights. They were admitted to the Arya Samaj on a basis of equality; for the Aryas are not a caste. ‘The Aryas are all men of superior principles; and the Dasyus are they who lead a life of wickedness and sin.’

Proper noun

Arya

1. A male given name from Sanskrit.
2. A surname.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit आर्या (āryā), feminine of आर्य (ā́rya, “noble, respectable”).

Proper noun

Arya

1. A female given name from Sanskrit.
   • 1999, Mark Seem, Acupuncture Physical Medicine, →ISBN:

     Arya Nielsen, a senior clinical faculty member at our Institute, has also demonstrated this in her excellent work on surface stimulation […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Arya.
2. A surname.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Arya.

Usage notes

• The given name was taken to use in the western world in the 21st century, partly by the book series Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, and A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin; partly as a variant of the more popular Aria.

Translations

female given name

• Hebrew: אריה (he) f (aryé)
• Hindi: आर्या (hi) f (āryā)
• Portuguese: Ária (pt) f
• Russian: А́рия f (Árija)
• Sanskrit: आर्या (sa) f (āryā)
• Turkish: Arya (tr) f

Anagrams

• Raya, Yara, raya, yaar

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦄꦂꦪ (arya), from Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “noble; noble one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarja/
• Hyphenation: ar‧ya

Proper noun

Arya

1. a male given name from Javanese

Noun

Arya

1. Aryan

Further reading

• “Arya”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Javanese

Romanization

Arya

1. romanization of ꦄꦂꦪ

Turkish

Proper noun

Arya

1. a female given name