The story
- hi,sa · borrowed fromवीणा
- English todayveena
Borrowed from Hindi and Sanskrit वीणा (vīṇā), which is related to Middle Persian wn' (win, “veena, lute”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
veena
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
hi,sa वीणा