different between shenai vs shehnai

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shenai (plural shenais)

From Hindi/Urdu, from Persian ? (šah-nây).

shehnai (plural shehnais)

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

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