Veena (disambiguation)

Veena may refer to the following:

Plucked musical instruments from the Indian sub-continent

The word veenaa (Sanskrit वीणा) or veenai (Tamil வீணை) is in India a generic name for a string instrument. The earliest veenaa was an instrument of the harp type whose type survives in the Burmese harp, whereas in the last centuries and nowadays, the word has tended to be applied to instruments of the lute type or even, recently, to certain kinds of guitars developped in India.

With frets

• Rudra veena, plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music
• Saraswati veena, plucked string instrument used in Carnatic music

Fretless

• Vichitra veena, plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music
• Chitra veena or gottuvadhyam, plucked string instrument used in Carnatic music

Guitar

• Mohan veena, slide guitar

Other

• Yazh, or Shatatantri veena, Ancient Indian form of Santoor
• Saptatantri veena

Male personal name

• Veena Kuppayyar (1798–1860), Indian exponent of Veena and composer of Carnatic music
• Veena Venkatagiriyappa (1887-1961), Indian musician

Female personal name

• Veena (actress) (1926-2004) also known as Veena Kumari, Indian actress
• Veena Das (born 1945), American professor of anthropology
• Veena Sahasrabuddhe (born 1948), Indian vocalist and composer of Hindustani classical music
• Veena Verma (born 1960), UK-based Punjabi short-story writer
• Veena Goel (born 1981), American beauty queen
• Veena Malik (born 1984 as Zahida Malik), Pakistani actress, model and comedienne
• Veena V (born 1987), British radio and TV presenter
• Veena Rawat, Canadian electrical engineer
• Veena Talwar Oldenburg, Indian-born American history professor
• Veena Sud, Canadian-born American television writer, director, and producer
• Veena Sood, Kenyan-born Canadian-based film and television actress of Punjabi descent

See also

• Vina (disambiguation)