బహువ్రీహి

Telugu

Etymology

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

బహువ్రీహి • (bahuvrīhi) ? (plural బహువ్రీహులు)

1. (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

"బహువ్రీహి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 874