INDO-IRANIAN


Meaning of INDO-IRANIAN in English

I. “+ adjective

Usage: usually capitalized both Is

: of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a subfamily of the Indo-European languages that consists of the Indic and Iranian branches

II. noun

Usage: capitalized both Is

1.

a. : the Indo-Iranian languages

b. : the unrecorded prehistoric language from which the Indo-Iranian languages are descended

2.

a. : a speaker of Indo-Iranian (sense 1b)

b. : a member of a people whose original tongue is one of the Indo-Iranian languages

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.