English pronunciation · Words Starting with A
Aryan Pronunciation
Aryan is pronounced AH-ree-uhn, IPA /ˈɑriən/.
AH-ree-uhn
US /ˈɑriən/
Syllables: AH · ree · uhn (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun and adjective: A nineteenth-century term for the Indo-Iranian peoples and languages, abandoned by scholars after the Nazis took it up as a racial label.
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Aryan in a Sentence
- Linguists now write Indo-Iranian where older books write Aryan.
- The Aryan languages include Sanskrit, Persian, and Hindi.
- Nazi ideology gave Aryan a racial meaning it never had in philology.
Common Mispronunciations of Aryan
Not AIR-ee-uhn
American dictionaries open the word on the ah of father, so it begins like the first part of army rather than like air.
Not uh-RY-uhn
No eye vowel appears anywhere in the word. The y stands for a plain ee, which is how the Sanskrit arya was transcribed.
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