| 释义 |
bahuvrihi, a. (n.) Gram.|bæhuːˈvriːhɪ|
[Skr., lit. having much rice, f. bahú much + vrīhí rice.]
Of a word: composed of an adjective and a substantive so as to form, principally, a possessive adjective, like the word bahuvrihi itself; also gen., forming a compound that is a part of speech different from its head member; absol., such a compound.
1846Monier-Williams Elem. Gram. Sanscr. ix. 157 Native grammarians class compound nouns under five heads:..The 5th, Bahuvríhi, or those formed of any number of words associated to form an epithet to a noun. 1872― Skr.-Eng. Dict. p. xii, When a student is in doubt whether to translate compounds like Indra-śatru as Bahuvrīhis or Tatpurushas. 1914Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. II. 148 In (bahuvrihi) compounds we have formal plurals denoting one single being and used as singulars, as in a sly-boots,..a lazybones. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. vi. 163 Possessive compounds (also called by the native Sanskrit grammatical term bahuvrīhi..) result, in the main, from the transformation of a compound noun into an adjective with the meaning ‘possessing (or possessed of) so-and-so’, e.g...Greek ῥοδοδάκτυλος ‘rose-fingered’, ἄ-παις ‘child-less’; Latin magnanimus ‘great-minded’,..and such English words as those just given as translations. 1944Mod. Lang. Notes LIX. 525 Today we are witnessing a rebirth of the Bahuvrīhi type in..high-potency vitamins. |