Niger Etymology
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] 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.[3]
Proper noun
Niger or the Niger
A country in West Africa , situated to the north of Nigeria . Official name: Republic of the Niger .
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.
A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Minna .
Translations
river
Afrikaans: Nigerrivier
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: نهر النيچر m ( nahr en-náyjar )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 尼日爾河 / 尼日尔河 (zh) ( Nírì'ěr Hé )
Dutch: Niger (nl) m
Esperanto: Niĝero (eo)
French: Niger (fr) m
Fula: please add this translation if you can
Galician: Níxer (gl) m
German: Niger (de) m
Greek: Νίγηρας (el) n ( Nígiras )
Hausa: Kwara
Ibibio: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: Nígerfljót n
Igbo: Òrìmili
Izon: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: ニジェール (ja) ( Nijēru )
Kanuri: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: Nigeris (lt) m
Macedonian: Нигер m ( Niger )
Nupe: Èdù
Portuguese: Níger (pt) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Нигер m
Roman: Niger (sh) m
Slovak: Niger m
Swedish: Niger (sv)
Tagdal: please add this translation if you can
Tuareg: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: Nijer (tr)
Yoruba: Ọya
Zarma: please add this translation if you can
See also
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 ]
References
compare: The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of useful Knowledge , vol. 16 (Murillo—Organ), 1840, NIGER, or rather NIGIR