An ancient Indo-European race that migrated to the areas of modern day Iran about 4000 years ago. They were caucasian. They looked like Germans. They called themselves the Noble, Master Race. They stayed in the areas of the modern day Iran. After centuries of evolution they were white anymore; they became tan and dark skinned, they got brown eyes and dark brown and black hair. Their Farsi got loans of words from surrounding languages, especially Arabic. They stopped calling themeselves Aryan, and began to use the more common Iranian, or Persian. They created a huge empire; the Persian Empire. They spread so much that they began to genetically mix with other races (Greeks, ancient Hebrews, Arabs). During the Iranian Empire's power, ancient Jewish Hebrews settled in the areas of present day Iran, and they stayed, and over time they began to evolve into true Iranians. The Hebrews would mix with the Aryans as well. Persian Jews have been in Iran for about 2700 years. All this time the main Iranian religion was Zoroastrianism. But the Iranians that desended from the ancient Hebrews stayed Jewish, but they were true Iranians. (Once Christianity was a religion, it was pushed into Iran by the immigrating Christian Armenians later on.) Then, during the 7th century, Iran w...

Any member of the Nordic Race, originally thought to have orignated in Central Asia, and possibly modern-day Germany (which the Romans called "Germania"). Populations in all European countries, India, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other nations descend from original Aryans. Aryans are traditionally distinguished by light hair, light eyes, light skin, and historically (but not as much in modern times because of miscegenation) tall stature.

noun: a Caucasian person of Nordic descent.
adjective: of or relating to the Indo-European people.

In other words, it simply means a person of Nordic ancestry. It is not a "racist" group of people as some propagandists would like you to believe.