तल्लज

{ tallajḥ }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

तल्लज  m.  m. ifc. an excellent specimen of. e.g. कुमारी-, ‘an excellent maiden’ [L.] Sch.
गो    cf.-
मतल्लिका   .

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

तल्लजः [tallajḥ]   1 Excellence, superiority, happiness.
(At the end of comp.) Excellent (in this sense the word is always masculine, whatever be the gender of the first member of the compound); गोतल्लजः 'an excellent cow'; so कुमारीतल्लजः 'an excellent maiden'.

Shabda-Sagara

तल्लज  m.  ( -जः) Excellence, happiness; also attributively, Excellent, happy: used in apposition as an epithet, the gender is not chang- ed, as कुमारीतल्लजः an excelent maiden.
E. तत् that, (that which is every thing,) and लज् to attain, affix अच् . तत् प्रसिद्धं यथा तथा लजति लज कान्तौ अच् . प्रशस्ते .

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तत् लज् अच् . तत् प्रसिद्धं यथा तथा लजति लज कान्तौ अच् . प्रशस्ते .