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Indo-Aryan

[ in-doh-air-ee-uhn, -yuhn, -ar-; -ahr-yuhn ]

noun

  1. a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indic language such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, or Urdu.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Indo-Aryans or their languages.

Indo-Aryan

adjective

  1. another word for Indic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. another name for Indic
  2. a native speaker of an Indo-Aryan language
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Indo-Aryan1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences

These absolute contradictions on matters of fact add, of course, to the difficulty of understanding the early Indo-Aryan religion.

As in other Indo-Aryan languages, comparison is effected by putting the noun with which comparison is made in the ablative case.

While modern Iranian often retains the nexus with little or no alteration, modern Indo-Aryan prefers to simplify it.

In this there are two branches somewhat resembling the division between Indo-Aryan and Iranian.

Was not that same idea a part of her own religion—a world-wide doctrine of Indo-Aryan origin?

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