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vina

vina is the alternative form 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

Proper noun capitalized: Vina

Vina (countable and uncountable, plural Vinas)

  1. A surname from Spanish.
  2. A census-designated place in Tehama County, California, United States.

Forms of vina

Noun
pluralvinas
Proper noun
pluralVinas

Origin of vina

From Sanskrit and Hindi वीणा (vīṇā).

Borrowed from Spanish Viña.

Phrases with vina

Questions about vina

What does vina mean?
Vina means a surname from Spanish.
What is vina the alternative form of?
Vina is the alternative form of veena.
What part of speech is vina?
Vina is a proper noun.

Words near vina in the dictionary

  1. vin du pays
  2. vin jaune
  3. vin ordinaire
  4. vin santo
  5. vin-
  6. vina
  7. vinaceous
  8. vinaceous dove
  9. vinaceous doves
  10. vinaconic acid
  11. vinage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vina (page history and authors); Vina (page history and authors); veena (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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