🔤 Bahuvrihis

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URDU

وصفی مرکب الفاظ، کسی صفت کے مالک شخص یا چیز کو بیان کرنے والے الفاظ، خارجی مرکبات
🅰️ Roman Urdu:
wasfi murakkab alfaaz, kisi sifat ke malik shakhs ya cheez ko bayan karne wale alfaaz
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ENGLISH

📚noun
bahuvrihis
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PRONUNCIATION

Standard: /ˌbɑːhuːˈvriːhiz/
Phonetic: /bah hoo vree heez/
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DEFINITION

possessive compounds, exocentric compounds, compounds describing something by a characteristic
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Bahuvrihis describe a person or object through a characteristic expressed by their components. The grammar lesson introduced bahuvrihis as compounds with meanings beyond their individual words. Examples of bahuvrihis include words describing people through physical or personal qualities. Students identified several bahuvrihis while analyzing compound expressions in classical languages. The teacher explained that bahuvrihis usually have meanings outside their grammatical heads.
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SYNONYMS

exocentric compounds possessive compounds descriptive compounds

ANTONYMS

endocentric compounds
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