A rather ambiguous term the Nazis primarily applied to people of Northern European racial background. Although never defined, in April 1933, the Nazis defined "non-Aryans" as individ [..]

c. 1600, as a term in classical history, from Latin Arianus, Ariana, from Greek Aria, Areia, names applied in classical times to the eastern part of ancient Persia and to its inhabitants. Ancient Pers [..]

A term used by Nazi Germany to describe the so-called 'pure' Germanic race.

A person of pure German heritage and blood, which Hitler considered the superior race. Typically blond and blue-eyed.

Derived from a Sanskrit word meaning “noble,” the term was used in Nazi pseudo-scientific jargon to denote a race which had supposedly superior blood and culture. During the Holocaust, “Aryan” came to [..]

Formerly a term that referred to the Indo-European language family, and an assumed racial category composed of  people of Indo-European "blood."  Similarities between ancient languag [..]

, In the Nazi ideology, the pure, superior Germanic (Nordic, Caucasian) race.

(n) (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)(n) a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European(adj) of or relating to the former Indo-Europea [..]

Variant of Arya 1.