<span>The question is asking us to say what the word "Aryan" actually refers to. The word Aryan actually refeers to an ancient group of people, who are the ancestors of today's Iranians. Together with the ancestors of today's norhern Indians, they formed the Indo-Aryan group, and they were also part of the Indo-European group that most Europeans descend from (the groups refer to the languages they spoke, genetically the story is a little more complicated)</span>
