अर्यमन्

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *aryamā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *aryamā́. Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥 (aⁱriiaman), Middle Persian (ʾylmʾn' /⁠ērmān⁠/).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐɾ.jɐ.mɐ́n/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɐɾ.jɐ.mɐn̪/

अर्यमन् • (aryamán) stem, m

1. a friend, play-fellow, companion
   1. (especially) a friend who asks a woman in marriage for another

अर्यमन् • (aryamán) stem, m

1. the name of an Aditya: Aryaman
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.89.3:

     तान्पूर्व॑या नि॒विदा॑ हूमहे व॒यं भगं॑ मि॒त्रमदि॑तिं॒ दक्ष॑म॒स्रिध॑म्।
     अ॒र्य॒मणं॒ वरु॑णं॒ सोम॑म॒श्विना॒ सर॑स्वती नः सु॒भगा॒ मय॑स्करत्॥

     tā́npū́rvayā nivídā hūmahe vayáṃ bhágaṃ mitrámáditiṃ dákṣamasrídham.
     aryamáṇaṃ váruṇaṃ sómamaśvínā sárasvatī naḥ subhágā máyaskarat.

     We invoke them with an ancient text, Bhaga, Mitra, Aditi, Dakṣa, Asridh, Aryaman, Varuṇa, Soma, the Aśvins; and may the gracious Sarasvatī grant us happiness.

• Monier Williams (1899) “अर्यमन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 93.