different between veena vs violin

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

English

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?va???l?n/, [?va?????l?n]
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?v?e?l?n/, /?v?e.??l?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

violin (plural violins)

1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.

   Synonym: fiddle
2. (music) A violinist.

   The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

Derived terms

Related terms

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (baiorin)
• ? Korean: ???? (baiollin)

Translations

Verb

violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

See also

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola

Anagrams

• olivin

Catalan

Verb

violin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
2. third-person plural imperative form of violar

Danish

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /violi?n/, [vio?li??n]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

1. violin

Declension

References

• “violin” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “violin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?li?/

Noun

violin m (plural violin)

1. violin