Nay or NAY may refer to:
- Ney (also nay, nye, nai), a wind instrument
- Nay, Manche, a place in the Manche département of France
- Nay, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a place in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
- Nay-ye Olya, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Nay-ye Sofla, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Nay, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Kalateh-ye Nay, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Ernst Wilhelm Nay, German abstract painter
- an abbreviation for the Mexican state Nayarit
- Beijing Nanyuan Airport, People's Republic of China; IATA airport code NAY
- Newton Aycliffe railway station, England; National Rail station code NAY
- An archaic form of no, used mainly in oral voting, and the opposite of yea.
Famous quotes containing the word nay:
“Years were not required for a revolution of public opinion; days, nay hours, produced marked changes in this case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)