As a Hindi name
वह
that; he, she, it; that one (distal third person singular personal pronoun)
Śabdasāgara also records: रामायण के अनुसार एक प्राचीन नदी का नाम जिसे पर्णसा भी कहते हैं · उशीर । खस
Cited formation "वेणा" is वेण + -आ: वेण means "= वेणु veṇu, 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 "वेणा" is वेण + -आ: वेण means "= वेणु veṇu, 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 tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit अदस् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Uncertain, but most likely from Old Hindi उहु (uhu), उहुं (uhuṃ), from Apabhramsa ओहु (ohu), from Prakrit अहो (aho), from Sanskrit अ॒सौ m (asáu, “that”). The inflected forms are formed by analogy with its proximal counterpart यह (yah) or with सो (so) ~ तिस (tis), the archaic thir…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
adas nom. m. f. asau (voc. asau, MaitrS.) (n. adas), (opposed to idam, q.v.), that, a certain
adas (adas) ind. thus, so, there.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Recorded as a personal name: a woman
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "veṇā" is the feminine form of "veṇa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
veṇā f. See next.
veṇā f. N. of a woman, HPariś.
of a river, MBh.; Kāv. &c.
veṇā N. of a river (joining the Kṛṣṇa).
veṇa m. (cf. veṇu and vīṇā) a worker in reed, Viṣṇ., Sch.
a musician (by caste, the son of a Vaideha and an Ambaṣṭhī), Mn. x, 19; 49 (cf. vaiṇa)
Alternative readings
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