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Sanskrit term for "headless" or exocentric compound
A bahuvrīhi (Sanskrit: बहुव्रीहि, romanized: bahuvrīhi, lit. 'having much rice'), or bahuvrīhi compound, is a type of compound word that denotes a referent
Bahuvrihi
Aspect of Sanskrit grammar
Nañ-tatpuruṣa Prādi and gati Upapada Bahuvrīhi Dvigu Dvandva Avyayībhāva The first two of these, tatpuruṣa and bahuvrīhi, are Indo-European inheritances,
Sanskrit_compound
Creature in Hindu iconography
Kirtimukha (Sanskrit: कीर्तिमुख ,kīrtimukha, also kīrttimukha, a bahuvrihi compound translating to "glorious face") is the name of a swallowing fierce
Kirtimukha
Structure providing shade or shelter
"cover to keep insects off"), from κώνωψ (kónops, "cone-face"), which is a bahuvrihi compound meaning "mosquito". The first 'o' changing into 'a' may be due
Canopy_(architecture)
Syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language
inflection of the verb. Lexical gaps are another key example of idiom. Bahuvrihi Collocation Cliché Phraseme Semantic equivalence (linguistics) Usage Programming
Idiom_(language_structure)
Ancient Iranian empire, 550–330 BC
Achaemenis/Achaemenes" (Old Persian: 𐏃𐎧𐎠𐎶𐎴𐎡𐏁, romanized: Haxāmaniš; a bahuvrihi compound translating to "having a friend's mind"). Achaemenes was himself
Achaemenid_Empire
Hindu mantra
Ācāryadevo bhava, and Atithidevo bhava) is a single word formed as a Bahuvrihi samāsa (compound word). In Sanatana Dharma, a personal deity is worshipped
Atithi_Devo_Bhava
Figure of speech
representatives stand in pars pro toto for their electorate. Antonomasia Bahuvrihi Category mistake Conceptual metaphor Hendiadys Holonymy Hyponymy Merism
Synecdoche
Ancient Indian term
Maurya-period text but now re-dated as later). The word cakra-vartin- is a bahuvrīhi compound word, translating to "one who moves the wheels", in the sense
Chakravarti_(Sanskrit_term)
Ancient Indian strategy board game
uncertainty as to the moves of the gaja (elephant). Sanskrit caturaṅga is a bahuvrihi compound word, meaning "having four limbs or parts" and in epic poetry
Chaturanga
Descriptive term used in place of a formal name
another might be described as "John Smith the short". Animal epithet Bahuvrihi, a Proto-Indo-European formation often used for epithets Cognomen Honorific
Epithet
Dogon language of Mali
hɔ̀ɔ̀làl trust bàŋáá owner hɔ̀ɔ̀làl bàŋáá trust owner 'trustworthiness' Bahuvrihi compounding in Tommo So occurs when a complex noun is created by attaching
Tommo_So
Ancestor of the Indo-European languages
or "cutting trees". When turned back into nouns, such compounds were Bahuvrihis or semantically resembled agent nouns. In thematic stems, creating a possessive
Proto-Indo-European_language
Hindu religious hymn
(nominative, the stem is nāman-) means 'name'. The compound is of the Bahuvrihi type and may be translated as 'having a thousand names'. In modern Hindi
Vishnu_Sahasranama
Species of flowering plant
Brachychiton is (Greek) neuter. In fact, Brachychiton is masculine (it is a bahuvrihi, and its first component is the descriptive component), and hence the
Brachychiton_acerifolius
Deified river mentioned in the Vedas and ancient Indian epics
interpretation of síndhumātā, the word is actually a bahuvrihi. Hans Hock (1999) translates síndhumātā as a bahuvrihi, giving the second translation. A translation
Saraswati_River
Character in Beowulf
sword-thane); alternatively, if his name was a compound of the ancient bahuvrihi type as were many other Germanic heroic names, it would indicate proficiency
Ecgþeow
Type of headgear
name of the Scythian tribe of the tigrakhauda (Orthocorybantians) is a bahuvrihi compound literally translating to "people with pointed hats". Besides
Pointed_hat
Figure of speech
employed kennings in his work; for example, bone-house for 'skeleton'. Bahuvrihi Difrasismo Elegant variation Heiti List of kennings Makurakotoba Metalepsis
Kenning
Profanity in Swedish
Compounding is frequently used to coin novel profanities. Compounds of the bahuvrihi type, often involving body parts, can often be associated with insults
Swedish_profanity
Southwestern Iranian language
away'. Compounding is very productive. The following types are common: 1. bahuvrihi or possessive compound, a compound adjective or noun of the structure
Middle_Persian
Through Hindi बासमती ultimately from Sanskrit वास vāsa. Bahuvrihi from Sanskrit बहुव्रीहि Bahuvrihi, a composite word, meaning 'much rice'. Bidi through
List of English words of Sanskrit origin
List_of_English_words_of_Sanskrit_origin
Zoroastrian concept of a personal spirit of an individual
meanings of var- into consideration: Either as var- "to cover" that in a bahuvrihi with fra- "to ward" provides "protective valor," or a derivation from
Fravashi
Series of sketches on Saturday Night Live
the audience a topic for discussion, typically in the structure of a bahuvrihi ([two- or three-part phrase] is neither [first part], nor [second part]
Coffee Talk (Saturday Night Live)
Coffee_Talk_(Saturday_Night_Live)
God in Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism
Vietnamese, and Daikokuten (大黒天) in Japanese. Mahākāla is a Sanskrit bahuvrihi of mahā "great" and kāla "time/death", which means "beyond time" or death
Mahakala
Buddhist philosophical concept
to a person being a "womb" for or "container" of the tathagata. As a bahuvrihi it may refer to a person as having an embryonic tathagata inside. In both
Buddha-nature
Lexeme (word or sign) that consists of more than one stem
class) as their head, as in the case of doghouse. An exocentric compound (bahuvrihi in the Sanskrit tradition) is a compound where the semantic category (e
Compound_(linguistics)
Study about Hindu Vedas
demonstrates his skill in nirukta by parsing it in an unexpected way as the Bahuvrīhi compound gaṇana + atha meaning "the one the enumeration (gaṇanaṁ) of whose
Nirukta
Bengali saint and founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism
means 'having a white, yellowish, or golden complexion'. The term is a bahuvrihi compound from: 'Gaura' (Sanskrit गौर) which means 'fair', 'gold', 'yellow'
Gauranga
Horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Śrauta tradition of Vedic religion
Revisited by Kunal Kishore p. 24 Dineshchandra Sircar 1962, p. 263. as a bahuvrihi, saptāśva "having seven horses" is another name of the Sun, referring
Ashvamedha
Grammar of the Telugu language
Sambhavana purvapada karmadharaya samasam Dvigu Samasam. Dvandva Samasam. Bahuvrīhi Samasam. Amredita Samasam. Avyayībhāva Samasam Telugu Alankaram is a figure
Telugu_grammar
Suffix used in linguistics
form -ōnymos is that taken by ónoma when it is the end component of a bahuvrihi compound, but in English its use is extended to tatpuruṣa compounds. The
-onym
Diametrically opposite points on Earth's surface
"under the feet, opposite side" to "those with the feet opposite", i.e. a bahuvrihi referring to hypothetical people living on the opposite side of the Earth
Antipodes_on_Earth
Sage in Hinduism
Brihaduktha, and belongs to the lineage of Sage Angiras. Vamadeva is a bahuvrihi (Sanskrit compound) which means "he whose God (deva, देव) is beautiful
Vamadeva
although the two parts may be unrelated Ādur-farr Male Derived from a bahuvrīhi compound *Ātṛ-farnah-, meaning "one who has the light/glory of Ādur" Ādur-Farrbay
Personal names in the Sasanian Empire
Personal_names_in_the_Sasanian_Empire
Distinction between grammatical constructions
is a have-not. For a class of compounds described as exocentric, see bahuvrihi. The endo- vs. exocentric distinction is possible in phrase structure
Endocentric_and_exocentric
Aspect of Sanskrit grammar
-us, -u and śucis, -is, -i , as well as ones adapted from nouns like bahuvrīhis. They are inflected like the i- and u-stem nouns described above; occasionally
Sanskrit_nominals
Persian minister, counselor to Cambyses II (d. 522 BCE)
identifies Prexaspes as the Ionic Greek representation of the Old Iranian Bahuvrihi compound *Para.wakhsh.aspa, which translates to "one who possesses a croup
Prexaspes
Names of numbers in the Proto-Indo-European language
Special forms of the numerals were used as prefixes, usually to form bahuvrihis (like five-fingered in English): The ordinal numbers are difficult to
Proto-Indo-European_numerals
Buddhist scripture
be taken as a tatpuruṣa compound ("a sword which is a horn") or as a bahuvrīhi compound ("one who has a sword as a horn"). In the former case, the title
Rhinoceros_Sutra
Epithet of Hindu god Krishna
the gopīs." A Gaudiya interpretation of the name is that Gopinath is a bahuvrīhi compound meaning "Krishna whose masters are the gopīs." In many Krishna
Gopinath_(Krishna)
How English plurals are formed; typically -(e)s
linguist Steven Pinker discusses what he calls "headless words", typically bahuvrihi compounds, such as lowlife and flatfoot, in which life and foot are not
English_plurals
Reconstructed culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans
of compound words that in the Sanskrit tradition are called bahuvrihi. As in Vedic bahuvrihi (lit. 'much-rice', meaning 'one who has much rice'), those
Proto-Indo-European_society
Type of linguistic compound
Lyman's Law exception, the onset of the second element is not voiced. Bahuvrihi Difrasismo Merism "天地". jisho.org. Retrieved 25 January 2026.{{cite web}}:
Dvandva
part ends in -ti or -si in Greek or Sanskrit. It is on a par with the bahuvrihi and tatpurusha types. It is derived from a finite verbal phrase, the verbal
Terpsimbrotos
Category of words in Proto-Indo-European
"smalltalk" or "blackbird". Exocentric or possessive compounds, usually called bahuvrihis, denote something possessing something, as in "flatfoot = [somebody] having
Proto-Indo-European_nominals
One of the ancient Sanskrit scriptures of Hinduism
means "white horse" and "drawn by white steeds". Shvetashvatara is a bahuvrihi compound of (Śvetaśva + tara), where tara means "crossing", "carrying
Shvetashvatara_Upanishad
History of reform efforts in French orthography
together: if one element is a verb: porte-monnaie → portemonnaie (wallet) in bahuvrihi compounds (where the individual sense of the elements has changed): sage-femme
Reforms_of_French_orthography
Grammatical rules of the Vedic Sanskrit language
fire-God the divine twins presses/extracts the soma juice dvandva tatpuruṣa bahuvrīhi avyayībhava vacana puruṣa prayoga artha kāla eka·vacana dvi·vacana bahu·vacana
Vedic_Sanskrit_grammar
Proto-Indo-European language sound law
applied to sequences arising across morpheme boundaries, such as when the bahuvrīhi prefix *su- occurred before a noun beginning with *w- (e.g. *su-wiHro-
Sievers's_law
Aspect of English grammar
However, in another common type of compound, the exocentric (known as a bahuvrihi compound in the Sanskrit tradition), the semantic head is not explicitly
English_compound
Concept of Hinduism
(universe)", in which regard Adi Shankara states that the phrase, janamādi is a bahuvrihi compound where the subject presented is apprehended along with its attributes
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