===> [ Arya ]1[ 'Arya ] m. (fr. [ ary'a ], √ [ R ]), a respectable or honourable or faithful man, an inhabitant of Āryāvarta (1) one who is faithful to the religion of his country (2) N. of the race which immigrated from Central Asia into Āryāvarta (opposed to [ an-Arya ], [ dasyu ], [ dAsa ]) (3) in later times N. of the first three castes (opposed to [ zUdra ]) cf. RV. cf. AV. cf. VS. cf. MBh. cf. Yājñ. cf. Pañcat. &c. (4) a man highly esteemed, a respectable, honourable man cf. Pañcat. cf. Śak. &c. (5) a master, an owner cf. L. (6) a friend cf. L. (7) a Vaiśya cf. L. (8) Buddha (9) (with Buddhists [ Pāli [ ayyo ], or [ ariyo ] ]) a man who has thought on the four chief truths of Buddhism (next col.) and lives accordingly, a Buddhist priest (10) a son of Manu Sāvarṇa cf. Hariv. (11) (mf ([ A ] and [ 'ArI ]) n.) Āryan, favourable to the Āryan people cf. RV. &c. (12) behaving like an Āryan, worthy of one, honourable, respectable, noble cf. R. cf. Mn. cf. Śak. &c. (13) of a good family (14) excellent (15) wise (16) suitable (17) ([ A ]), f. a name of Pārvatī cf. Hariv. (18) a kind of metre of two lines (each line consisting of seven and a half feet (19) each foot containing four instants, except the sixth of the second line, which contains only one, and is therefore a single short syllable (20) hence there are thirty instants in the first line and twenty-seven in the second) ; [ cf. Old Germ. [ ^era ] ; Mod. Germ. [ Ehre ] ; Irish [ Erin ]. ]