Niger

Etymology
Commonly linked by folk etymology to 🇨🇬, which likely influenced the modern spelling.

Some sources give the term to roots, deriving it from a claimed  or. Compare Tarifit --.

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.

Pronunciation

 * or, for the country, also
 * , or, for the country, also ,
 * The second pronunciations of the country's name follow how it is pronounced in French, the official language of Niger.

Proper noun

 * 1)  that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.
 * 1)  that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Niger
 * Amharic: ኒጄር
 * Arabic: النِّيجَر
 * Egyptian Arabic: نيچير النيچر
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܼܓ̰ܲܪ
 * Armenian: Նիգեր
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Ні́гер
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: Niger
 * Bulgarian: Ни́гер
 * Burmese: နိုင်ဂျာ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: Nìger
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ނީޖަރު
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, Niĝerlando
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Niger
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Fula:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: Nijar
 * Hebrew: ניז׳ר
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: Niger
 * Irish: Nígir, Poblacht na Nígire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalenjin: Naija
 * Kamba: Naija
 * Kanuri:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: Naija
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: Нигер
 * Latgalian: Nigereja
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: Naija
 * Luo: Naija
 * Macedonian: Нигер
 * Maori: Ngāika
 * Meru: Naija
 * Mingrelian: ნიგერი
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Нигер
 * Norman: Niger
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Persian: نیجِر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ни̏гер
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: නයිජර්
 * Slovak: Niger
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Niher
 * Tagdal:
 * Tajik: Ниҷер
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ናይጀር
 * Tuareg:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, Ніґе́р
 * Urdu: نائجر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Ni-giê
 * Yoruba: Náíjà
 * Zarma:


 * Afrikaans: Nigerrivier
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: نهر النيچر
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Fula:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: Kwara
 * Ibibio:
 * Icelandic: Nígerfljót
 * Igbo: Òrìmili
 * Izon:
 * Japanese:
 * Kanuri:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: Нигер
 * Nupe: Èdù
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Нигер
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Niger
 * Swedish:
 * Tagdal:
 * Tuareg:
 * Turkish:
 * Yoruba: Ọya
 * Zarma:

Etymology
Probably borrowed from.

Etymology
From.

Proper noun
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Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) A Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
 * (, Aquilius Niger)