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Veena

2 stages from Sanskrit to English.

Today it means a plucked stringed instrument used in South Indian classical music
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Stage 1 of 2
vina
Sanskrit · ancient
"a plucked stringed instrument"
a plucked stringed instrument central to Indian classical music
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Stage 2 of 2
veena
English · 1800s
"a plucked stringed instrument of South Indian classical music"
adopted directly for the classical South Indian stringed instrument
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