different between guitar vs veena

English

Alternative forms

• guittar (obsolete)
• gittar (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic ?????????? (q???ra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t??/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /???.t??/
• IPA^(key): /?i?t??/
• IPA^(key): /???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

  Hyphenation: gui?tar

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

2. (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Synonyms

• axe (slang)
• gat (New Zealand slang)

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lute
• stringed instrument

Hyponyms

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

• 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

1. (rare) To play the guitar.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• Ugarit

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?itar/, [???it????]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

Inflection

English

Alternative forms

• vina

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (v???), and its source, Sanskrit ???? (v???), which is related to Middle Persian wn' (win, “veena, lute”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?vi?n?/

Noun

veena (plural veenas)

1. (music) 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.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 339:

     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.

   • 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 375:

     Shanmugavadivu continued to earn her income through her veena performances, and by introducing her daughters to the stage as soon as they were able.

Anagrams

• Neave, naeve, næve

Estonian

Noun

veena

1. essive singular of vesi

Finnish

Noun

veena

1. (music) veena (instrument)

Declension

Anagrams

• eevan