different between rebab vs veena

English

Alternative forms

• rabab

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Ultimately from Arabic.”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???bæb/

Noun

rebab (plural rebabs)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, related to the lute, used especially in Islamic countries
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 62:

     A last cricket scratched mournfully at its rebab.

Related terms

• rebec

Translations

Anagrams

• Baber, Ebarb, bebar

Romanian

Etymology

From French rébab.

Noun

rebab n (plural rebaburi)

1. rebab

Declension

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