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dvandvas

dvandvas is the plural of dvandva.

Meaning of dvandva

Noun

dvandva (plural dvandvas)

  1. A copulative or coordinative type of compound in which members, if not compounded, would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction and. Common in languages such as Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese, but less so in English.
    • Tatpuruṣa and dvandva compounds regularly have a single gender, that of the final constituent, although a subgroup of dvandvas has the gender of the first constituent.2003, Dhanesh Jain, George Cardona, The Indo-Aryan Languages, Routledge, page 153

Questions about dvandvas

What is dvandvas the plural of?
Dvandvas is the plural of dvandva.

Words near dvandvas in the dictionary

  1. Duzan
  2. Duzans
  3. DV
  4. DV8
  5. dvandva
  6. dvandvas
  7. Dvapara Yuga
  8. DVB
  9. DVC
  10. DVCS
  11. DVD

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