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.dʒə(ɹ)/ or, for the country, also /niːˈʒɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: nīʹjər, IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪ.dʒɚ/ 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: -aɪdʒə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)

Niger

1. A country in Western Africa situated to the north of Nigeria. Official name: Republic of Niger.
2. A river in Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.

• Subsahara

• Nigeria
• Nigerien
• Nigerois
• Transnigerian

• Appendix:Countries of the world

• Niger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Niger m

1. Niger (country)
2. Niger (river)

• nigerský
• Nigeřan

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

Niger

1. Niger (country)

• nigeriläinen

• IPA^(key): /ni.ʒɛʁ/

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Niger m

1. Niger (country)

• Nigérien (“Nigerien”), Nigérienne
• nigérien

• Nigérian (“Nigerian, person from Nigeria”), Nigériane
• nigérian

• IPA^(key): [ˈniːɡɐ]

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Niger m or n (genitive Nigers)

1. Niger (country)

• Nigerien n (obsolete)
• Republik Niger (“Republic of the Niger”)

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

Niger m (genitive Nigers)

1. Niger (river)

• Nigeria

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

Niger m

1. Niger (country)
2. Niger (river)

• nigerino

• negri
• regni

From niger (“black, dark”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ɡer/, [ˈnɪ.ɡɛr]

Niger m (genitive Nigrī); second declension

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

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

Niger m (genitive Nigris); third declension

1. the river Niger in 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.

Third declension.

• 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 (country)

• nigerer
• nigersk

Niger

1. Niger (country)

• nigerar
• nigersk

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲi.ɡɛr/

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Niger m

1. Niger (country)
2. Niger (river)

• (#1) Nigerczyk m, Nigerka f
• adjective: nigerski

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

Nȉger m (Cyrillic spelling Ни̏гер)

1. Niger (country, river)

Niger n (genitive Nigers)

1. Niger (country)