Aria (name)


Aria can be a male, female, or even a unisex name depending on the country of origin. The Persian Arya is a male name that means "noble". Italian Aria refers both "air" and the melody, aria. In the Albanian language, Aria or Ari means "treasure" or "gold" or "of high value". In Hebrew,, the name means "lion", while the alternate Ariyah means "God's Lion ". The Hebrew meaning is also carried over to Neo-Aramaic dialects.
The term Arya has been used by the Iranian people, as well as by the rulers and emperors of Iran, from the time of the Avesta. Evidently from the time of the Sassanids Iranians have called it Iran, meaning the "Land of the Aryans" and Iranshahr. In Middle Persian sources, the name Arya and Iran is used for the pre-Sassanid Iranian empires as well as the Sassanid empire. As an example, the use of the name "Iran" for Achaemenids in the Middle Persian book of Arda Viraf. The Proto-Iranian term for Iran is reconstructed as *Aryānām ; the Avestan equivalent is Airyanem.

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