dvandva द्वन्द्व – a pair, brace, couple

Original text · English · substantive neuter

dvandva dvandva, am, n. (a reduplicated form fr. dva), a pair, brace, couple; a couple of animals of different sexes, male and female; any two things taken together, any pair of qualities or conditions which are the opposite of one another (e. g. heat and cold, happiness and misery, &c.); strife, contention, bickering, dispute, quarrel, contest, fight; a fight between two persons, a duel; doubt, uncertainty; a stronghold, fortress; a secret; using sacrificial vessels ?; (as), m. (rarely n.) a form of compound or grammatical combination (samāsa) uniting two or more words which if uncompounded would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction ‘and,’ (this form of compound was called dvandva as originally combining couples or pairs of things, e. g. Rāma-lakṣmaṇau, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa; pāṇi-pādam, hand and foot); (as), m., N. of several Ekāhas; the sign of the zodiac Gemini; a species of disease, a complication of two disorders, a compound affection of two humors [cf. nir-d˚]; (am or ena), ind. two by two.

Original text · French · substantive neuter

dvandva dvandva n. (red. de dva) état de ce qui est double: paire; couple d'animaux; rapprochement des sexes; dispute, altercation; secret entre deux personnes. — M. n. composé copulatif [où les deux composants sont au même cas; ex. dampatī]. — M. les Gémeaux, signe du Zodiaque. Etat de l'âme partagée entre deux tendances. Maladie compliquée d'une autre. dvandvacara et dvandvacārin m. oie rougeâtre [qui va par couples]. dvandvamoha m. le trouble qu'engendre le doute. dvandvayuddha n. combat singulier.