As a Hindi name
वीणा · noun · feminine
प्राचीन काल का एक प्रसिद्ध बाजा । बीन · विद्युत् । बिजली · ज्योतिष में ग्रहों की एक विशेष अवस्थिति (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
वीणा · vīṇā · s.f.
The Indian lute (i.q. bīn or bīnā, qq.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1211
वीणा · feminine
a kind of Indian lute
Cited formation "वीणा" is वीण + -आ: वीण means "contrac. of next, q.v. (com. bīn, q.v.)", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "वीणा" is वीण + -आ: वीण means "contrac. of next, q.v. (com. bīn, q.v.)", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi वीणा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit वीणा (vī́ṇā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vīṇā f. (of doubtful derivation) the Vīṇā or Indian lute (an instrument of the guitar kind, supposed to have been invented by Nārada q.v., usually having seven wires or strings raised upon nineteen frets or supports fixed on a long rounded board, towards the ends of which are two large gourds; its compass is said to be two octaves, but it has many varieties according to the number of strings &c.), TS.; ŚBr. &c. &c.
(in astrol.) a partic. configuration of the stars (when all planets are situated in 7 houses), VarBṛS.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the Vīṇā or Indian lute (an instrument of the guitar kind, supposed to have been invented by Nārada q.v., usually having seven wires or strings raised upon nineteen frets or suppor…
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vīṇā f. (of doubtful derivation) the Vīṇā or Indian lute (an instrument of the guitar kind, supposed to have been invented by Nārada q.v., usually having seven wires or strings raised upon nineteen frets or supports fixed on a long rounded board, towards the ends of which are two large gourds; its compass is said to be two octaves, but it has many varieties according to the number of strings &c.), TS.; ŚBr. &c. &c.
(in astrol.) a partic. configuration of the stars (when all planets are situated in 7 houses), VarBṛS.
lightning, L.
N. of a Yoginī, Cat.
of a river, MBh.
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