veṇa

  1. a worker in bamboo Pv-a.175.
  2. a member of a low & despised class (cp. pukkusa) Vin.iv.6; SN.i.93 (˚kula); AN.ii.85 (id.); AN.iii.385 Pp.51; f. veṇī Ja.v.306 (= tacchikā C.); Pv.iii.1#13 (read veṇī for veṇiṃ).

cp. *Sk. vaiṇa, dial.