different between metonymy vs bahuvrihi

English

Etymology

From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (met?numí?, “change of name”), from ???? (metá, “other”) + ????? (ónoma, “name”).

Noun

metonymy (countable and uncountable, plural metonymies)

1. (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.

   Coordinate term: metaphor

   Hypernyms: trope, figure of speech

   Hyponyms: synecdoche, synecdochy
2. (countable) A metonym.

Derived terms

• metonymous
• metonym
• metonymic
• metonymically

Translations

See also

• metalepsis
• Category:English metonyms
• hyponymy

Further reading

• metonymy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• metonymy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Alternative forms

• Bahuvrihi, bahuvr?hi, Bahuvr?hi

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit ????????? (bahuvr?hi, “rich, wealthy”, literally “[possessing] much rice”), itself an example of a bahuvrihi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bahu??v?i?hi/
• Hyphenation: ba?hu?vri?hi

Noun

bahuvrihi (plural bahuvrihis)

1. (grammar, also attributive) A type of nominal compound in which the first part modifies the second and neither part alone conveys the intended meaning.

Translations

See also

• exocentric
• metonymy
• Category:Bahuvrihi compounds by language

Further reading

• bahuvrihi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bahuvrihi at OneLook Dictionary Search
• bahuvrihi in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.