a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
Origin: < Skt tatpuruṣa lit., his man, his servant; equiv. to the two words tasya + puruṣaḥ; an example of the compound used to name the compound type
[tat-poo
r-uh-shuh, tuht-] 