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Ney

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    Nickname for Neymar (born 1992), Brazilian association football player.
Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian نی (ney).

Etymology 2

* 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.

Etymology 3

From Portuguese Ney, a clipping of Neymar.

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