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Meaning of ney | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. A type of endblown flute.
  2. A surname.
  3. Nickname for Neymar (born 1992), Brazilian association football player.

Equivalents

العربية ناي
Ελληνικά νέι
Français Ney
日本語 ナーイ
Português ney
Русский ней
Türkçe ney
Українська най

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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