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shanai

shanai is the alternative form of shehnai.

Meaning of shehnai

Noun

shehnai (plural shehnais)

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

Forms of shanai

pluralshanais

Questions about shanai

What is shanai the alternative form of?
Shanai is the alternative form of shehnai.

Words near shanai in the dictionary

  1. Shanae
  2. Shanafelt
  3. Shanafelts
  4. Shanahan
  5. Shanahans
  6. shanai
  7. shanais
  8. Shanaiyah
  9. shanbogue
  10. shanbogues
  11. Shancheng

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shanai (page history and authors); shehnai (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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