- A
bahuvrihi compound (from Sanskrit: बहुव्रीहि, romanized:
bahuvrīhi, lit. 'having much rice',
originally referring to
fertile land but
later denoting...
- Nañ-tatpuruṣa Prādi and gati
Upapada Bahuvrīhi Dvigu Dvandva Avyayībhāva The
first two of these, tatpuruṣa and
bahuvrīhi, are Indo-European inheritances,...
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Chandragupta Maurya and his
grandson Emperor Ashoka. The word cakra-vartin- is a
bahuvrīhi compound word,
translating to "one
whose wheels are moving", in the sense...
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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...
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Kirtimukha (Sanskrit: कीर्तिमुख ,kīrtimukha, also kīrttimukha, a
bahuvrihi compound translating to "glorious face") is the name of a
swallowing fierce...
- putradevah, acharyadevah, and
atithidevah are one word each, and each one is a
Bahuvrihi samasta-pada. In
Sanatana Dharma personal God is
worshipped in five-step...
- "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...
- 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...
- the cup", to
refer to her
drinking of the cup's
contents Antonomasia Bahuvrihi Category mistake Conceptual metaphor Hendiadys Holonymy Hyponymy Merism...
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another might be
described as "John
Smith the short".
Animal epithet Bahuvrihi, a Proto-Indo-European
formation often used for
epithets Cognomen Honorific...
