Niger

Commonly linked by folk etymology to Latin niger (“black”), which likely influenced the modern spelling.

Some sources give the term to Tuareg roots, deriving it from a claimed gher n-gheren or ì-ɡərw-ɑn, .[1][2][3]

Older sources derive Niger, via a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, from Ptolemy's descriptions of the wadi Gir (in modern Algeria) and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir") to the south (which may both derive from the same source as ì-ɡərw-ɑn).[4]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/ or, for the country, also /niːˈʒɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: nīʹjər, IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪ.d͡ʒɚ/ or, for the country, also enPR: nēzhârʹ, /niːˈʒɛɚ/

  The second pronunciations of the country's name follow how it is pronounced in French, the official language of Niger.[5][6]

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• Rhymes: -aɪd͡ʒə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)

Niger

1. A country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria. Official name: Republic of Niger.
2. A major river in West Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.
3. A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Minna.

• Subsahara

• Nigger (offensive)

• Nigeria
• Nigerien
• Nigerois
• Transnigerian

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

• Niger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Grein, Negri, Reign, nigre, re-nig, reign, renig, ringe

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa; capital: Niamey)

• Nigerees
• Nigers
• Nigeryn

Niger

1. Niger (a country in Africa)

Niger

1. Niger (a country in Africa)

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɪɡɛr]

Niger m inan (related adjective nigerský, demonym Nigeřan)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa; capital: Niamey)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa)

• Niger in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Niger in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• Niger in Internetová jazyková příručka

Probably borrowed from French Niger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.ɣər/, /ˈni.ɣɛr/
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ger

Niger n

1. Niger

• Nigerees

From French Niger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniɡer/, [ˈniɡe̞r]
• Rhymes: -iɡer
• Syllabification^(key): Ni‧ger

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)

• nigeriläinen

• IPA^(key): /ni.ʒɛʁ/

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Niger m

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)

• Nigérien (“Nigerien”), Nigérienne
• nigérien

• Nigérian (“Nigerian, resident or native of Nigeria”), Nigériane
• nigérian

• IPA^(key): [ˈniːɡɐ]

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Niger m or n (proper noun, strong, genitive Nigers)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)

   Synonyms: (obsolete) Nigerien n; Republik Niger (“Republic of the Niger”)

• Nigrer (“Nigerien, person from Niger”)
• nigrisch

der Niger m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Niger or des Nigers)

1. Niger (a major river in West Africa)

• Nigeria

• Nigerianer (“Nigerian, person from Nigeria”)
• nigerianisch

• IPA^(key): [ˈniɡɛr]
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ger
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)
2. Niger (a river in West Africa)

• nigeri

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.d͡ʒer/
• Rhymes: -idʒer
• Hyphenation: Nì‧ger

Niger m

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa)

• nigerino

• negri, regni

From niger (“black, dark”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ɡer/, [ˈnɪɡɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.d͡ʒer/, [ˈniːd͡ʒer]

Niger m (genitive Nigrī); second declension

1. A Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
   • (Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger, Aquilius Niger)

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Niger m sg (genitive Nigris); third declension

1. Niger (a major river in West Africa)
   • 1534, Joachim Vadianus, Epitome trium terrae partium Asiae, Africae et Europae compendiariam...:

     Efficit autem hoc suo flexu, ut etiam ultra Athlantem Africa ad usque Nigrim fluuium excurrat, Plinio & Ptolemaeo.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Niger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “Niger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Niger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)

• nigerer
• nigersk

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)

• nigerar
• nigersk

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲi.ɡɛr/

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• Rhymes: -iɡɛr
• Syllabification: Ni‧ger

Niger m

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa)

• Niger in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Niger in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /nîɡer/
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ger

Nȉger m (Cyrillic spelling Ни̏гер)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa)

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

• IPA^(key): /niːɡɛr/

Niger n (genitive Nigers)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa)

• nigerer
• nigerier
• nigerisk
• nigeriska

• Inger, inger, regin, ringe