As nouns the difference between ney and dey
is that ney is a type of end-blown flute while dey is a servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
As a pronoun dey is
eye dialect of from=African American Vernacular English lang=en.
As a proper noun Dey is
the tenth solar month of the Persian calendar.
ney
Alternative forms
* nai
* nay
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Noun
(
en noun)
(label) A type of end-blown flute.
Related terms
* zurna
dey
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) deye, deie, daie, from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* daie, deie, deye
Noun
(
en noun)
A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
(
en noun)
The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
*:the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
Etymology 3
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