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ney

ney noun: a type of endblown flute.

ney: a type of endblown flute
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Noun

ney (plural neys)

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

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ney

Ney (plural Neys)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ney

Ney

  1. Nickname for Neymar (born 1992), Brazilian footballer

ney meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Arabic and Persian

ney in Tamil

நாடுபடுதிரவியம்

ney in Urdu

type of flute
نای nāy

ney in Arabic

type of flute
نَاي nāy

ney in Persian

type of flute
نی ney

Forms of ney

Noun
pluralneys
alternative formnai
alternative formnay
alternative formnāy
Proper noun
pluralNeys

Origin of ney

Borrowed from Persian نی (ney).

* As an English surname, variant of Nye. * As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from the source of McNee. * As a north German and Jewish surname, variant of Neu. Sometimes shortened from Neuberger.

From Portuguese Ney, a clipping of Neymar.

Questions about ney

What does ney mean?
Ney means a type of endblown flute.
What is ney in Tamil?
Ney in Tamil is நாடுபடுதிரவியம். See Ney meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ney?
Ney can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ney?
The plural of ney is neys.

Words near ney in the dictionary

  1. nexus flips
  2. nexuses
  3. nexusses
  4. nexûs
  5. nexūs
  6. ney
  7. neyanda
  8. Neyer
  9. Neyers
  10. neyghbor
  11. neyghbore

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ney (page history and authors); Ney (page history and authors); ney (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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