نی

نی • (ní)

1. now

• انوں (annõ)
• انی (anní)
• نون (nún)
• نیں (ní̃)

From Proto-Dravidian *nīn.

نی (nī)

1. you (singular)

نَی (nəy)

1. Arabic spelling of nəy (“what”)

نَی (nəy)

1. Arabic spelling of nəy (“why”)

From Middle Persian KNYA / nʾd (nay, “reed, cane”), nʾd (nāy, “tube, flute, clarion”); see نای (nây) for more.

• نای (nāy / nây)

نی • (nay / ney) (plural نی‌ها (nay-hā / ney-hâ), Tajik spelling най)

1. reed
2. cane
3. straw
4. ney
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 1:

     بشنو این نی چون شکایت می‌کند
     از جدایی‌ها حکایت می‌کند

     bišunaw īn nay čūn šikāyat mē-kunad
     az judāyi-hā hikāyat mē-kunad

     Listen to the reed how it tells a tale,
     complaining of separations—

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

5. flute

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “nay; nāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 58

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭫𐭠 / 𐭭𐭩 (nē), from Proto-Iranian *ná, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ná, from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”).

نی • (nē / ni) (Tajik spelling не)

1. (formal in Dari and Tajik; archaic in Iran) no

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “نی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “نی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “نی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

نی (nī)

1. negation

نی (nī)

1. not

نی (nī)

1. no