ney

See also: Ney

English

ney

Alternative forms

• nai
• nay
• nāy

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نی (ney).

Noun

ney (plural neys)

1. (music) A type of endblown flute.
   • 2013, Helen Cox, ‎Peter Roberts, The Harp and the Ferryman

     A few weeks later Adille phoned me to say that he had just met a person who had begun to make neys from special reeds that he found on an island in the Yarra River in Melbourne, of all places.

Related terms

• zurna

Translations

a type of flute

• Arabic: نَاي (nāy)
• Azerbaijani: ney (az)
• Bambara: neyi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西笛子 (xīdízi)

• Danish: langfløjte c
• French: ney (fr) m
• Hebrew: נאי m (nay)
• Japanese: ナーイ (nai)
• Kyrgyz: най (nay)
• Ottoman Turkish: نای (nây), نی (ney)
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• Persian: نی (fa) (ney)
• Polish: nej (pl) m
• Portuguese: ney m
• Russian: ней (ru) m (nɛj)
• Tajik: най (tg) (nay)
• Turkish: ney (tr)
• Ukrainian: най m (naj)
• Urdu: نای (nāy)
• Uyghur: نەي (ney)
• Uzbek: nay (uz)

Anagrams

• -yne, NYE, Nye, eny, nye, yen

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Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛj/

Noun

1. ney

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Portuguese

Noun

ney m (plural s)

1. ney (a type of flute)

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Shabo

Adjective

ney

1. this