Niger

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
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• General-American: nīʹjər
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• General-American: /ˈnaɪ.d͡ʒɚ/
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• General-American: nēzhârʹ
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• rhymes with -aɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• /ˈnaɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
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• CMU ARPABET: N AY1 JH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”). Compare Tarifit iɣzar-n-iɣezran. 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.

From the name of the Niger River, from Latin Nigris. See further etymology at Niger.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: Niger — country
• Amharic: ኒጄር (niǧer) — country
• Arabic: النِّيجَر (an-nījar) — country
• Arabic: نيچير f النيچر (nijēr) — country
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܼܓ̰ܲܪ (nījar) — country
• Armenian: Նիգեր — country
• Asturian: Níxer — country
• Azerbaijani: Niger — country
• Belarusian: Ні́гер (Níhjer) — country
• Bengali: নাইজার (naijar) — country
• Breton: Niger — country
• Bulgarian: Ни́гер (Níger) — country
• Burmese: နိုင်ဂျာ (nuinggya) — country
• Chinese Mandarin: 尼日爾 /尼日尔 (Nírì'ěr) — country
• Chinese Mandarin: 尼日 (Nírì) — country
• Corsican: Nìger — country
• Czech: Niger — country
• Danish: Niger — country
• Dhivehi: ނީޖަރު (nījaru) — country
• Dutch: Niger — country
• Esperanto: Niĝero — country
• Esperanto: Niĝerlando — country
• Estonian: Niger — country
• Faroese: Niger — country
• Finnish: Niger — country
• French: Niger — country
• Galician: Níxer — country
• Georgian: ნიგერი (nigeri) — country
• German: Niger — country
• Greek: Νίγηρας (Nígiras) — country
• Hausa: Nijar — country
• Hebrew: ניז׳ר (nijer) — country
• Hindi: नाइजर (nāijar) — country
• Hungarian: Niger — country
• Icelandic: Níger — country
• Interlingua: Niger — country
• Irish: An Nígir — country
• Irish: Poblacht na Nígire — country
• Italian: Niger — country
• Japanese: ニジェール (Nijēru) — country
• Kalenjin: Naija — country
• Kamba: Naija — country
• Kazakh: Нигер — country
• Khmer: នីហ្សេ (niizee) — country
• Kikuyu: Naija — country
• Korean: 니제르 (Nijereu) — country
• Kyrgyz: Нигер — country
• Latgalian: Nigereja — country
• Latvian: Nigēra — country
• Lithuanian: Nigeris — country
• Luhya: Naija — country
• Luo: Naija — country
• Macedonian: Нигер — country
• Māori: Ngāika — country
• Meru: Naija — country
• Mingrelian: ნიგერი (nigeri) — country
• Mongolian: Нигер — country
• Norman: Niger — country
• Norwegian Bokmål: Niger — country
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Niger — country
• Persian: نیجِر (nijer) — country
• Polish: Niger — country
• Portuguese: Níger — country
• Romanian: Niger — country
• Russian: Ни́гер (Níger) — country
• Russian: Ниге́р (Nigér) — country
• Serbo-Croatian: Ни̏гер — country
• Serbo-Croatian: Nȉger — country
• Sinhalese: නයිජර් (nayijar) — country
• Slovak: Niger — country
• Slovene: Niger — country
• Spanish: Níger — country
• Swahili: Nijeri — country
• Swedish: Niger — country
• Tagalog: Niher — country
• Tajik: Ниҷер (Nijer) — country
• Thai: ไนเจอร์ (nai-jə̂ə) — country
• Tigrinya: ናይጀር (nayǧär) — country
• Turkish: Nijer — country
• Ukrainian: Ні́гер (Níher) — country
• Ukrainian: Ніґе́р (Nigér) — country
• Urdu: نائجر — country
• Uzbek: Niger — country
• Vietnamese: Ni-giê — country
• Yoruba: Náíjà — country
• Afrikaans: Nigerrivier — river
• Arabic: نهر النيچر (nahr en-náyjar) — river
• Bulgarian: Ни́гер (Níger) — river
• Chichewa: Mtsinje wa Niger — river
• Chinese Mandarin: 尼日爾河 /尼日尔河 (Nírì'ěr Hé) — river
• Dutch: Niger — river
• Esperanto: Niĝero — river
• French: Niger — river
• Galician: Níxer — river
• German: Niger — river
• Greek: Νίγηρας (Nígiras) — river
• Hausa: Kwara — river
• Icelandic: Nígerfljót — river
• Igbo: Òrìmili — river
• Japanese: ニジェール (Nijēru) — river
• Lithuanian: Nigeris — river
• Macedonian: Нигер — river
• Nupe: Èdù — river
• Portuguese: Níger — river
• Serbo-Croatian: Нигер — river
• Serbo-Croatian: Niger — river
• Slovak: Niger — river
• Swedish: Niger — river
• Turkish: Nijer — river
• Yoruba: Ọya — river