veena

Saraswati veena

Meaning

Noun

A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.

Origin

From Hindi वीणा, and its source, Sanskrit वीणा, which is related to Middle Persian wn'.

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