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veenas

veenas is the plural of veena.

Meaning of veena

Noun

veena (plural veenas)

  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.
    • When he wanted to test any of the principles he was enunciating or elucidating, he went over to the veena which sits in a glass case now and played for hours and substantially extended the vocabulary and scope of the instrument.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 339

Questions about veenas

What is veenas the plural of?
Veenas is the plural of veena.

Words near veenas in the dictionary

  1. veela
  2. veeled
  3. veeling
  4. veels
  5. veena
  6. veenas
  7. Veendam
  8. Veenendaal
  9. Veenhof
  10. veenite
  11. Veenstra

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