Caucasian vs. Aryan — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to a racial group having light-colored skin; white.

In Nazism and neo-Nazism, a non-Jewish Caucasian, especially one of Nordic type, supposed to be part of a master race.

Of or being a human racial classification distinguished especially by very light to brown skin and straight to wavy or curly hair, and including peoples indigenous to Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, and parts of South Asia. No longer in scientific use.

Aryan or Arya (; Indo-Iranian *arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (*an-arya). In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self-designation) and in reference to a region known as Āryāvarta ('abode of the Aryas'), where the Indo-Aryan culture emerged.

Of or relating to the Caucasus region or its peoples, languages, or cultures.

Indo-Iranian.

Of or relating to a group of three language families spoken in the region of the Caucasus mountains, including Chechen, Abkhaz, and the Kartvelian languages.

A member of the people who spoke the parent language of the Indo-European languages. No longer in technical use.

A person having light-colored skin; a white person.

A member of any people speaking an Indo-European language. No longer in technical use.

A member of the Caucasian racial classification. No longer in scientific use.

One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.

The language of the original Aryans.

The Caucasian language family.

A non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; - a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis.

Alternative case form of Caucasian

Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

Alternative case form of Caucasian

(according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

Of or relating to the former Indo-European people;

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

A member of any of the white races of mankind.

A member of the Caucasoid race

A number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that have no known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere

Of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia;

Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration;