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 egereou n-igereouen (“river of rivers”).[1][2]

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.[3]

• (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.[4][5]

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• Rhymes: -aɪd͡ʒə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)

Niger or the Niger

1. A country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria. Official name: Republic of the Niger.
2. A major river in West Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.
   • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 290:

     From here we can see the River Niger in the distance running across town, a long gleaming diamond in the horizon.

3. A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Minna.

• Subsahara

• (regions of Niger) region of Niger; Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey, Tahoua, Tillabéri, Zinder,

• Nigeria
• Nigerien
• Nigerois
• Proto-Volta-Niger
• Republic of Niger
• 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, situated to the north of Nigeria; capital: Niamey)

• Nigerees
• Nigers
• Nigeryn

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɪɡɛr]

Niger m inan (related adjective nigerský, demonym Nigeřan)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)

• 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/

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• Hyphenation: Ni‧ger

Niger n

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• Nigerees

From French Niger.

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

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• nigeriläinen

• IPA^(key): /ni.ʒɛʁ/

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Niger m

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• Nigérien (“Nigerien”), Nigérienne
• nigérien

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈniːɡɐ]

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der Niger m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Niger or des Nigers) or
Niger n (proper noun, genitive Nigers or (optionally with an article) Niger)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

   Synonyms: Republik Niger, (obsolete) Nigerien n

• Nigrer
• nigrisch

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

1. Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)

• Nigeria

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

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

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)

• nigeri

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

Niger m

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)

• nigerino

• negri, regni

From niger (“black, dark”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ɡer/, [ˈnɪɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate 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, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)
   • 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 quotation)

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, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• nigerer
• nigersk

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• nigerar
• nigersk

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲi.ɡɛr/

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• Rhymes: -iɡɛr
• Syllabification: Ni‧ger

Niger m

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)

• Niger in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

Nȉger m (Cyrillic spelling Ни̏гер)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)
2. Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)

Niger

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• (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/

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Niger n (genitive Nigers)

1. Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

• nigerer
• nigerier
• nigerisk
• nigeriska

• Inger, inger, regin, ringe