Aryan (disambiguation)

Aryan was a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.

Aryan or Arya may also refer to:

Ethno-linguistics

• Indo-Iranians, a prehistoric people
  • Indo-Aryan languages
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan language
    • Indo-Aryan peoples, people speaking the Indo-Aryan languages
  • Iranian languages
    • Self-designation of the Alans, a group of Iranic nomads from the Eurasian steppe
  • Arya (Iran), self-designation of early Iranians from Greater Iran
    • Self-designation of the Iranians in the Avesta
    • Self-designation of the Iranians in the Achaemenid Empire
    • People from Ariana, corresponding to Khorasan during the medieval period
    • Inhabitants of the Sasanian Empire, the name of which in Middle Persian, Eran Shah, means Aryan Empire
• Proto-Indo-Europeans, in works published in the 19th century and early 20th century
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian language
• Aryan race (dated), a discredited racial grouping popular in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries in Europe
• Nordic race (dated), a racialist concept called "Nordicism" developed by Ariosophy and later adopted by the Nazis
• Nordic aliens or Aryan aliens
• Aryan language (disambiguation)
• Aryan languages (disambiguation)
• Aryan religion (disambiguation)

People

• Arya (name), a Persian and Indian given name (including a list of persons with the name)
• Aryan (name), a given name and surname that is popular in India and Iran
• Arya (actor) (born 1980), south Indian actor
• Arya (actress), Indian actress
• Gabriel Arya (7th century AD), Syriac writer from Arabia
• Aryan Pandit, an Indian actor and model

Organizations

• Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda
• Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist street gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States
  • Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
• Aryan Guard, a neo-Nazi group based in Alberta, Canada
• Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization
• White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi white separatist organization

Films

• The Aryan, 1915 American silent film
• Aryan (1988 film)
• Arya (2004 film), a Telugu Tollywood film starring Allu Arjun
  • Arya 2, a 2009 Telugu film
• Aryan: Unbreakable, a 2006 Indian film
• Aarya (film), a 2007 Tamil-language romantic comedy film
• Aryan (2014 film), a 2014 Kannada-language film
• Aarya (TV series), 2020 Indian TV series

Places

• Aryavarta, meaning land of the Aryans, the historic name of Northern India
• Herat, Afghanistan, a city in Northwest Afghanistan
• Varian, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
• Aryan, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Aryan, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Arya (urban-type settlement), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Other uses

• Arya (Buddhism), a concept in Buddhism
• Arya: A Philosophical Review, a monthly periodical published in India from 1914 to 1921
• Arya metre, a poetic metre used in Sanskrit and Prakrit verse
• Aryan FC, an Indian football club founded in 1884
• Arya F.C., an Iranian football club
• "Arya", a 2022 song by Nigo

See also

• Ari (name) (Aryeh), an Aramaic given name used in a blessing in the Bible
• Ariya (disambiguation)
• Aria (disambiguation)
• Arian (disambiguation)
• Ariane (rocket family), a series of space vehicles
• Arrian (86 A.D. – 2nd century A.D.), Greek historian
• Aryanization, in Nazism, the expulsion of "non-Aryans"
• Arya Vaisya (disambiguation), several castes
• Aryn (disambiguation)
• Ayran, a yoghurt-based drink
• Aryabhata (disambiguation)