బహువ్రీహి
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Telugu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Sanskrit बहुव्रीहि (bahuvrīhi, “much rice”), itself a bahuvrihi from बहु (bahu, “much”) + व्रीहि (vrīhi, “rice”), referring neither to much nor to rice, but to a person possessing an abundance of rice, that is, a wealthy person.
Noun[edit]
బహువ్రీహి • (bahuvrīhi) ? (plural బహువ్రీహులు)
- (grammar) One of the forms of Sanskrit grammatical composition in which two or more words are compounded to furnish an epithet or attributive, as ముక్కంటి (mukkaṇṭi).
References[edit]
"బహువ్రీహి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 874