Nigeria

See also Nigéria, Nígería, and Niger

English [edit]

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Nigeria

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Nigeria

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Etymology [edit]

Named after the Niger River, from a native term "Ni Gir" (meaning "River Gir"). The name has often been misinterpreted as derived from the Latin niger (“black”), a reference to the dark complexions of the inhabitants of the region.

Pronunciation [edit]

(UK) IPA: /naɪˈdʒɪə(ɹ).i.ə/, X-SAMPA: /naI"dZI@(r).i.@/
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Proper noun [edit]

Nigeria

Country in Western Africa, south of the country of Niger. Official name: Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Derived terms [edit]

Nigerian

Translations [edit]

in Western Africa

Arabic: نيجيريا (ar) (nijiiriya) f, نايجيريا (ar) (nayjiiriya) f

Egyptian Arabic: نايجيريا
Armenian: Նիգերիա (hy) (Nigeria)
Belarusian: Нігерыя (be) (Nihéryja) f
Bengali: নাইজেরিয়া (bn)
Breton: Nigeria (br)
Bulgarian: Нигерия (bg) (Nigérija) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 尼日利亞 (cmn), 尼日利亚 (cmn) (Nírìlìyà), 奈及利亞 (cmn), 奈及利亚 (cmn) (Nàijílìyà) (Taiwan)
Czech: Nigérie (cs) f
Danish: Nigeria (da)
Dutch: Nigeria (nl)
Esperanto: Nigerio (eo), Niĝerio (eo)
Finnish: Nigeria (fi)
French: Nigeria (fr) m
German: Nigeria (de)
Greek: Νιγηρία (el) (Nigiría) f
Hausa: Nijeriya (ha)
Hindi: नाइजीरिया (hi) (nā'ijīriyā)
Hungarian: Nigéria (hu)
Icelandic: Nígería (is) f
Igbo: Naigeria
Interlingua: Nigeria (ia)
Irish: An Nigéir (ga) f, Poblacht Chónaidhme na Nigéire (ga) f
Italian: Nigeria (it) f
Japanese: ナイジェリア (ja) (Naijeria)

Kalenjin: Nijeria
Kamba: Nijeria
Kikuyu: Nigeria
Korean: 나이지리아 (ko) (Naijiria)
Luhya: Nigeria
Luo: Nigeria
Macedonian: Нигерија (mk) (Nigérija) f
Maltese: in-Niġerja (mt)
Meru: Nigeria
Norwegian: Nigeria (no)
Persian: نیجریه (fa) (Nijeriye)
Polish: Nigeria (pl) f
Portuguese: Nigéria (pt) f
Romanian: Nigeria (ro) f
Russian: Нигерия (ru) (Nigérija) f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Нигерија (sh) f

Roman: Nigerija (sh) f
Slovak: Nigéria (sk) f
Slovene: Nigerija (sl) f
Spanish: Nigeria (es) f
Swahili: Nijeria (sw)
Swedish: Nigeria (sv)
Thai: ไนเธอเรีย (th)
Turkish: Nijerya (tr)
Ukrainian: Нігерія (uk) (Nihérija) f
Yoruba: Nàìjíríà (yo)

Finnish [edit]

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Nigeria

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Proper noun [edit]

Nigeria

Nigeria

Declension [edit]

Declension of Nigeria (type kulkija)

	singular	plural
nominative	Nigeria	–
genitive	Nigerian	–
partitive	Nigeriaa	–
accusative	Nigeria Nigerian	–
inessive	Nigeriassa	–
elative	Nigeriasta	–
illative	Nigeriaan	–
adessive	Nigerialla	–
ablative	Nigerialta	–
allative	Nigerialle	–
essive	Nigeriana	–
translative	Nigeriaksi	–
instructive	–	–
abessive	Nigeriatta	–
comitative	–	–
¹⁾ Rare.