Girl · Tamil
Venba
வெண்பாSay it VEN-baa
- Meaning
- A classical Tamil stanza form, one of the four principal kinds Tamil Lexicon, p. 3780
- Say it
- VEN-baa
- Spelling in Tamil
- வெண்பா
- Spelling in English
- Venba, Venpa, Venbaa
Venba
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Venba meaning
Venba (வெண்பா) is a Tamil girl's name.
A classical Tamil stanza form, one of the four principal kinds
Venba (வெண்பா) is the name of a classical Tamil verse form. The Tamil Lexicon lists veṇpā as one of the four principal kinds of stanza in Tamil prosody, citing the Tolkāppiyam, and builds the word from veṇ-, as in veṇmai, "whiteness" or "brightness", and pā, "verse, stanza, poem". The form follows strict rules of metre, and some of the best-loved works in Tamil are written in it: all 1,330 couplets of Thiruvalluvar's Tirukkural use its two-line kuṟaḷ veṇpā, and Pugazhendi's Nalavenba retells the story of Nala and Damayanti. As a girl's name, Venba belongs to the modern choice of pure Tamil names drawn from the language's literature. The 2023 video game Venba is named after its heroine, a Tamil mother who moves to Canada.
Source: Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (1924–36), p. 3780 · entry veṇpā (வெண்பா) · See the entry · checked 30 Oct 2026
References: Tamil Lexicon, veṇpā (வெண்பா), p. 3780 · Tamil Lexicon, pā (பா), p. 2577 · Tamil Lexicon, veṇmai (வெண்மை), p. 3782 · Wikipedia, Venpa · Wikipedia, Venba (video game)
Famous namesakes
- Venba, the Tamil mother at the centre of the 2023 video game Venba
Spellings
Venba · Venpa · Venbaa