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veena.

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.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈviːnə/UK
  1. 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.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Hindi and Sanskrit वीणा (vīṇā), which is related to Middle Persian wn' (win, “veena, lute”).

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