arya
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Indo-Iranian, an Aryan.
noun
A follower of Arya Samaj.
name
A male given name from Sanskrit.
name
A surname.
name
A female given name from Sanskrit.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The Brahmos are chiefly in Bengal, the Aryas in the North-West and the Punjab."
- "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 the 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.’"
- "Arya Nielsen, a senior clinical faculty member at our Institute, has also demonstrated this in her excellent work on surface stimulation […]"
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:Arya."