ARI.  An Egyptian title, meaning properly "Guardian," but sometimes rendered on the funereal inscriptions, "Companion" or "Citizen."  It is also the Egyptian name of the country of Arya, or Bactria, the sacred home of the Aryan races. (An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).

ARI (Արի).  Armenian name, derived from the vocabulary word ari, meaning "brave."

... In the language of Armenia, ari is used in the widest sense for Aryan or Iranian; it means also brave, and is applied more especially to the Medians. (Lectures on the Science of Language, Müller, 1861)

ARI.  Old Norse name, derived from Teutonic ari, meaning "eagle." (The Home of the Eddic Poems, Bugge, 1899).

    Ari was an adventurer who sailed to Greenland in fourteen days, fifteen years before the preaching of Christianity in Iceland... (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)