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- Sanskrit · borrowed fromतत्पुरुष
- English todaytatpuruṣa
Borrowed from Sanskrit तत्पुरुष (tatpuruṣa), itself an example of tatpuruṣa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tatpuruṣa
Today it means: A dependent determinative compound, i.e. a compound XY meaning a type of Y which is related to X in a way corresponding to one of the grammatical cases of X. Full definition →
Sanskrit तत्पुरुष