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	Bahuvrihi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A bahuvrihi is a nominal compound, in which the compound meaning is not specified by any of its parts.
		Bahuvrihi is a Sanskrit word that literally means much rice and denotes a rich person -- a person who owns a lot of rice.
		In contrast to the bahuvrihi, the parts of most nominal compounds specifies the meaning of the compound.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/b/ba/bahuvrihi.html (91 words)

	Bahuvrihi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English bahuvrihis often describe people by referring to specific properties: flatfoot, half-wit, highbrow, lowlife, redhead, tenderfoot, longlegs, and white-collar.
		The last constituent in a Sanskrit bahuvrihi is a noun, more strictly: a nominal stem.
		The whole compound is an adjective and agrees in gender and number with the head.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bahuvrihi (138 words)

	NY Bahuvrihi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		undiscovered tribes sweltering in the jungles of Bahuvrihi.
		(bahuvrihi, "having a root like a man") first heavy rains.
		The name Zaraθ-uštra is probably a Bahuvrihi compound in the Avestan language.
	bahuvrihi.miobfp.com /NY-bahuvrihi.htm (324 words)

	Sanskrit language - vitalcoaching.com
		Bahuvrihi, or much-rice, denotes a rich person--one who has much rice.
		Bahuvrihi compounds refer to a thing which is not specified in any of the parts of which the compound is formed.
		A block-head, for example, is someone whose head is said to be as thick as a block.
	vitalcoaching.com /spirit/sanskrit/sanskrit_language.htm (1739 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Bahuvrihi, or "much-rice", denotes a rich person—one who has much rice.
		Bahuvrihi compounds refer to a compound noun with no head -- a compound noun that refers to a thing which is itself not part of the compound.
		For example, "low-life" and "block-head" are bahuvrihi compounds, since a low-life is not a kind of life, and a block-head is not a kind of head.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Sanskrit.html (2576 words)

	bahuvrihi - alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary
		A is usually an adjective and B, a noun, though A may be a noun, as in egghead.
		In the compound birdhouse, house is the head and bird, the modifier, because a birdhouse is a house.
		Alternatively, you could parry and thrust with this line: "Is that the best bahuvrihi you can come up with?" Then claim, "Touché," and walk away, leaving the aggressor in mental and spiritual disarray with no dictionary to shield himself.
	www.alphadictionary.com /goodword/word/bahuvrihi (355 words)

	Amazon.com: Bahuvrihi: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Compounds are of four general types: tatpurusa (determinative), dvandva (copulative), bahuvrihi (exocentric), and a type that is usually invariant (avyayibhava).
		passage is based on taking dharmaskandhli as a possessive compound (bahuvrihi); this interpretation is supported by the contrast drawn between it...
		Vedic a-mtrais a negative bahuvrihi compound formed directly from mitrd- `contract, alliance': our `enemies' are...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Bahuvrihi&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (790 words)

	Mumukshuppadi Sarartha Deepikai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In this sutra, bahuvrIhi samAsa is used to bring out another meaning.
		Through tatpurusha samAsa, it is gathered that He is the refuge of the eternal beings.
		Through bahuvrIhi samAsa, it can be gathered that He dwells within the eternal beings.
	www.acharya.org /vyakyanam/mumukshuppadi/mmp099.html (115 words)

	ZEFRANK.COM - message board - The Dictionary Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		bahuvrihi (n) buttock numbness, a yogic term from the Sanskrit bahu bottom + vrihi a-tingle.
		bahuvrihi: In Thailand, the street term for a prostitute with the sucking power of a good-quality vacuum cleaner.
		Daverbee and Ambo, embroiled in a particularly brutal bahuvrihi, exchanged icy insults at 20 paces for an hour before Ze finally declared it a draw.
	www.zefrank.com /bulletin/showthread.php?t=7884&page=76 (1309 words)

	puzzle solution, bahuvrihis, probability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sam Kantimathi recently suggested that a false compound might be called a BAHUVRIHI#.
		I feel compelled to point out that a bahuvrihi is one of a pentad of grammatical terms describing compound word formation, coined by Sanskrit pedants a few thousand years ago and still in use today by English-speaking linguists and computer scientists.
		A bahuvrihi is not a false compound, but rather a possessive one, in which the composition of two words NUMB+SKULL denotes not an instance of the latter (that is, not a kind of skull), but rather one who possesses such an item.
	www.math.toronto.edu /jjchew/cgp/misc/poslfit-00001.html (352 words)

	Wordsmith.org: Wordsmith Talk: collocation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		You could say something like Jheem bahuvrihi meaning Jheem who possesses a lot of rice.
		Not that Jheem is a noun and bahuvrihi is an compound adjective in this example.
		(I'd argue that that's just an orthographic convention in English.) And dvandva and bahuvrihi are just linguistic terms that Indian grammarians came up with, but which linguists still use for languages other than Sanskrit.
	wordsmith.org /board/showthreaded.php?Number=122285 (319 words)

	compound verb Information Center - sentence with compound verbs
		For example, the what is compound compound verb sentence example verb English compound white-collar is neither a kind of collar nor a white thing.
		In the Sanskrit tradition, this is called a bahuvrihi compound; another (modern) term is exocentric compound, meaning that the concept represented by the compound lies outside its parts.
		In an exocentric compound, the word class is determined lexically, disregarding the class of the constituents.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_A_-_Co/compound_verb.html (822 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.101: Bahuvrihi Compounds, Romanian LA Corpora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Dear linguists, While studying bahuvrihi compounds in English I have dug out some problems.
		In some papers I've found that bahuvrihi and exocentric compounds are the same.
		Others say that bahuvrihi are used to denot persons, animals (plants) and things only.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/11/11-101.html (182 words)

	Gregory Nagy, section 2
		Although such a substantive is not directly attested in the Rig-Veda itself, there is no reason to doubt its archaism and we may safely derive the Rig-Vedic adjective a/kSiti- as a BahuvrIhi built from it, meaning 'who/which has no kSiti-'.
		The substantive is attested from the Atharva-Veda onward, with the accentuation (kSi/ti-) characteristic of compound ti- substantives which had switched to the status of non-compounds.
		In the following brief grammatical discussion, I will use the Indic grammatical term 'BahuvrIhi'; the name means 'who/which has much rice' and is applied to compounds with parallel semantic interrelation of components.
	www.stoa.org /hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0007:part=2:chapter=7:section=2&highlight= (1297 words)

	Srivaishnava Articles
		In the first shloka, in the phrase "njAna vairAgya rAshayE", the common meaning that most would think of is that Nathamunigal is a collection of such qualities as njAna and vairAgya.
		Periyavachchan Pillai considered the bahuvrIhi samAsa here and taking the meaning of rAsi as a samUha, applied it to both njAna and vairAgya and said that he posseses collections of njAna and vairAgya.
		Considering that njAna and vairAgya are single, he then questioned himself whether they can be refered to as collections.
	acharya.org /articles/PeriyavachchanPillaiSriSuktisAndDesikan.html (1747 words)

	Mumukshuppadi Sarartha Deepikai (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The meaning from the tatpurusha samAsa shows His paratva quality, while the meaning from the bahuvrIhi samAsa shows His Saulabhya quality.
		The bahuvrIhi samAsa that shows that He dwells in all beings, shows His Saulabhya quality.
		The quality of such a superior being making Himself easily accessible to all is seen from the fact that He dwells in everything.
	www.acharya.org.cob-web.org:8888 /vyakyanam/mumukshuppadi/mmp100.html (125 words)

	zoroaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Scholarly estimates are usually roughly near 1200 BC, making him a candidate as the founder of the earliest religion based on revealed scripture, while others place him anywhere between the 18th and the 6th centuries BC.
		The name ZaraÎ¸-uÅ¡tra is probably a Bahuvrihi compound in the Avestan language, of zarÉta- "old" and uÅ¡tra "camel", translating to "having old camels, the one who owns old camels".
		A variant of this is the translation "Golden Star", assuming the second part of his name is a variant of Aster, or Akhtar; in modern Persian, Setareh means Star.
	www.petso.com /wiki/?title=Zoroaster (2901 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Zoroaster
		Others however give earlier estimates, making him a candidate as the founder of the earliest religion based on revealed scripture.
		The name zaraθ-uštra is a Bahuvrihi compound in the Avestan language, of zarəta- "feeble, old" and uštra "camel", translating to "having old camels, the one who owns old camels".
		The first part of the name was formerly commonly translated as "yellow" or "golden", from the Avestan "zaray", giving the meaning "having yellow camels".
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Zoroaster (777 words)

	Wordsmith.org: Wordsmith Talk: collocation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Not sure how many English professors it takes to reverse a binomial, and some of their math colleagues may take issue with hijacking one of their terms, but it should be fun and besides the mouthfullness of the moniker most folks quickly understand what you're talking about.
		The Indian (Sanskrit) Grammarians studied compounds in depth, and I've always loved their technical terms for two different kinds of compounds: dvandva 'pair, couple' (called by Whitney copulative compounds, i.e., two words smashed together that would normally be connected by a conjunction) and bahuvrihi '(possessing) much rice' (or possessive compounds).
		I was surprised to see that bahuvrihi is listed in the A-H. The example they give is high-fiber diet, with high-fiber being a bahuvrihi compound, as in a diet possessing (or consisting) of high fiber.
	wordsmith.org /board/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=122257&an=0&page=9 (1001 words)

	Language in India
		Mother tongue is a compound at two levels, namely, grammatical and semantic.
		Grammatically, it is a 'Bahuvrihi' compound with 'mother' as normal attribute to the head noun 'tongue'.
		Semantically, it is a compound of metaphor and metonymy.
	www.languageinindia.com /aug2004/kannadamothertongue2.html (1946 words)

	American Oriental Society: Abstracts of Communications presented at the 207th Meeting 3
		However, if we examine all the passages in the text of the Rksamhita containing the word and its cognates like sunrta (adj.), sunrtavat, sunrtavari, sunara (adj.), etc., we shall come to a different conclusion about its derivation and meaning.
		It will prove to be a bahuvrihi compound, with a special use in the feminine gender condensing a Vedic myth of Indo-European origin into a short formula, and indicating some important cycles of time in the ritual calendar.
		At the 1996 meeting of the society, Elizabeth Carter, Bruce Zuckerman, and I reported on the discovery, initial photography, and preliminary decipherment of the extremely significant 8th century BCE commemorative stela and royal inscription found in the vicinity of the boundary between the Neo-Hittite states of Que (Adana/Cilicia) and Gurgum (Marash).
	www.umich.edu /~aos/abs973.htm (4501 words)

	Dvigu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its first constituent is a numeral, in the case of dvigu, itself an example for the type:-
		(The meaning "having two cows" is a bahuvrihi.)
		This page was last modified 04:25, 24 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dvigu (89 words)

	Stuffed Plush Smilodon from Stuffed Legends
		Smilodon SMILE-o-don (a bahuvrihi from Greek: σμιλη "knife" and (Ionic) οδων "tooth") is an extinct genus of large machairodontine saber-toothed cats that are understood to have lived between approximately 3 million to 10,000 years ago in North and South America.
		They are the only known successors to Machairodus.
		The Smilodon is the prehistoric cat that researchers know the most about.
	www.stuffedlegends.com /smilodon.htm (138 words)

	Blogs - carisoprodol bahuvrihi order carisoprodol (soma) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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	www.blinkbits.com /bits/viewtopic/carisoprodol_bahuvrihi_order_carisoprodol_(soma)?t=9626012 (211 words)

	The Wordwizard Portal: Jerome Burne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The rule/memory division also explains another group of tricky
		combinations, known technically by the Sanskrit term Bahuvrihi, these are
		Bahuvrihi - first noted by ancient Sanskrit scholars - are a good example
	www.wordwizard.com /jeromeburne.htm (888 words)

	bahuvrihi - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com
		We found no English translation for 'bahuvrihi' in our French to English Dictionary.
		Or did you want to translate 'bahuvrihi' from English to French?
		Forum discussions with the word(s) 'bahuvrihi' in the title:
	www.wordreference.com /fren/bahuvrihi (41 words)

	Rhizome.org: few ideas on language devices in rushdie --not a poem -
		That is, despite the fact that he has a lexicon in his mouth, he has a heavy use of devices and speech patterns found in English-as-second-language, importing other lang’s as well as film, radio, TV.
		pots-and-pans) conjuncts commas lack bahuvrihi (compound that, when the words are together, refers to something that is none of the words involved ex.
		I'm sure the average Rhizomer is better versed than I am...so tell me what you think --Vijay
	rhizome.org /thread.rhiz?thread=7635&page=1 (152 words)

	Linguist List - Dissertation Abstracts
		I argue that suru is not a lexical verb, but a spell-out of a functional category whose main function is to introduce an external possessor.
		I show that a similar construction can be found in Yaqui bahuvrihi possessives and English possessional adjectives, albeit in slightly different forms.
		Please report any bad links or misclassified data
	linguistlist.org /pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=750 (383 words)

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