यमक mfn. (
-कः-का-कं) Twin, fellow, one of a pair or twins.
m. (
-कः)
1. A religious obligation or observance.
2. A twin.
3. Restraint, check.
n. (
-कं)
1. A species of alliteration, the repetition of similar words or syllables either in a similar or a dis-similar sense in various parts of a stanza, beginning, middle, or end of each hemistich, pervading the whole verse: ten varieties are enumerated.
2. A couple of like articles; (in medicine,) serum and marrow; oil and ghee, (in diet,) &c.
3. A double bandage.
E. कन् added to the preceding.