shehnai

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi/(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Urdu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian شهنای (šah-nây).

Noun

shehnai (plural shehnais)

  1. (music) An ancient reeded woodwind instrument from India with a long slim body and bulbous sound bowl, with or without keys.
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 125:
      The next seven days the shehnais played in the Naupatkhana and every morning I offered my prayers to the founder of our dynasty […].
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