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‖ tatpurusha Philol.|tætˈpʊrəʃə|
Also tatpuruṣ(h)a and with capital initial.
[Skr., lit. ‘his servant’.]
A compound in which the first element qualifies or determines the second, while the second retains its grammatical independence as noun, adjective, or participle.
1846M. Williams Elem. Gram. Sanscrit ix. 157 Native grammarians class compound nouns under five heads: the 1st they call Tatpurusha or those composed of two nouns. 1872[see bahuvrihi]. 1901A. A. Macdonell Sanskrit Gram. vi. 159 The past part{ddd}gata, ‘gone to’, is often used at the end of Tatpuruṣas in the sense of ‘relating to’, ‘existing in’. 1946Trans. Philol. Soc. 1945 86 From this combination we get the tatpuruṣa compounds śilōñcha- and śilōñchana-. 1957S. Potter Mod. Ling. iv. 91 Bookcase consists of substantival attribute + substantive. It belongs to that class of compounds known as tatpurusha to Indian grammarians because the first component determines or qualifies the second. 1969― Changing English ii. 58 It [sc. ‘year-book’] is a tatpurusha type of compound that has been in use in English for hundreds of years, written solid by Anglo-Saxon scribes. |