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vina

/vee-nah, -nuh/US // ˈvi nɑ, -nə //UK // (ˈviːnə) //

维娜,维纳,阴道,维那

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a musical stringed instrument of India, made of rosewood or ebony, consisting of a long, hollow, fretted stick to which one, two, or three gourds are attached to increase the resonance.

Examples

  • “But fire is treated like an act of God,” Vina Drennan has noted.

  • And old Aunt Vina and her two sons would not have lost their wages, nor the church its annual liberal check.

  • The islet we visited bore one of the most celebrated vina-devis, and so, of course, was proclaimed sacred.

  • As the Vina speaketh music, by musicians tuned aright, Let thy sounding bow and arrows speak thy deeds of matchless might!

  • Vina, the principal national instrument of the Hindus, also known as the Bengalese vina, strung with wire.

  • In the mythology of the Hindus the god Nareda is the inventor of the vina, the principal national musical instrument of Hindustan.