द्वंद्व n. n. (the repeated
nom. of
द्व) pair, couple, male and female,
[TS.] ;
[Br.] ;
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c. (
°अ॑म्ind.,
°द्वेind., or
°द्वेनind. by two, face to face, secretly)
a pair of opposites (
e.g. heat and cold, joy and sorrow &c.),
[Up.] ;
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] ;
[R.] &c.
strife, quarrel, contest, fight (
esp. between two persons, a duel),
[MBh.] ;
[R.] ;
[Hit.] stronghold, fortress,
[L.] द्वंद्व n. m. (
scil. समास; rarely
n.) a copulative compound (or any
c° in which the members if uncompounded would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction, ‘and’
cf. देवता-,
नक्षत्र-),
[Pāṇ. 2-2, 29; 4, 2] द्वंद्व m. m.N. of
sev. एकाहs,
KātyŚr.the sign of the zodiac Gemini,
[Gol.] (in music) a kind of measure
a species of disease, a complication of two disorders, a compound affection of two humours,
[L.]