Nigeria

See also: Nigéria, Nígería, and Nigèria

Contents

EnglishEdit

Coat of arms of Nigeria

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin Nigeria (“country by the Niger River”). For further information, see the etymology of Niger.

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /naɪˈdʒɪə.ɹɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /naɪˈdʒɪɹ.i.ə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /naɪˈdʒiː.ɹi.ə/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ge‧ria

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

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

HypernymsEdit

• Subsahara

Derived termsEdit

• Nigerian

TranslationsEdit

a country in Western Africa

• Afrikaans: Nigerië
• Albanian: Nigeri (sq) f
• Amharic: ናይጄሪያ (nayǧeriya)
• Arabic: نِيجِيرِيَا‏‎ f (nījēriyā, nīgīriyā), نَايْجِيرِيَا‏‎ f (nayjīriyā)

  Egyptian Arabic: نايجيريا‏‎

• Armenian: Նիգերիա (Nigeria)
• Azeri: Nigeriya (az)
• Belarusian: Ніге́рыя f (Nihjéryja)
• Bengali: নাইজেরিয়া (naijeriya)
• Breton: Nigeria
• Bulgarian: Ниге́рия f (Nigérija)
• Burmese: နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယား (nuinggyi:ri:ya:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼日利亞 (zh), 尼日利亚 (zh) (Nírìlìyà), 奈及利亞, 奈及利亚 (Nàijílìyà) (Taiwan)

• Czech: Nigérie (cs) f
• Danish: Nigeria (da)
• Dhivehi: ނައިޖީރިއާ‏‎ (naijīriā)
• Dutch: Nigeria (nl)
• Esperanto: Nigerio, Niĝerio (eo)
• Estonian: Nigeeria (et)
• Finnish: Nigeria (fi)
• French: Nigeria (fr) m
• Galician: Nixeria (gl) f
• Georgian: ნიგერია (nigeria)
• German: Nigeria (de) n
• Greek: Νιγηρία (el) f (Nigiría)
• Hausa: Nijeriya, Najeriya
• Hawaiian: Naigeria
• Hebrew: ניגריה‏‎ f (nigerya)
• Hindi: नाइजीरिया (hi) (nāijīriyā)
• Hungarian: Nigéria (hu)
• Icelandic: Nígería (is) f
• Igbo: Naigeria, Naìjíríyà
• Indonesian: Nigeria (id)
• Interlingua: Nigeria
• Irish: An Nigéir f, Poblacht Chónaidhme na Nigéire f
• Italian: Nigeria (it) f
• Japanese: ナイジェリア (ja) (Naijeria)
• Kalenjin: Nijeria
• Kamba: Nijeria
• Kazakh: Нигерия (Nïgerïya)
• Khmer: នីហ្សេរីយ៉ា (niizeeriiyaa)
• Kikuyu: Nigeria

• Korean: 나이지리아 (Naijiria)
• Kyrgyz: Нигерия (Nigeriya)
• Lao: ໄນຈີເລຍ (nai chī līa)
• Latvian: Nigērija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Nigerija (lt) f
• Luhya: Nigeria
• Luo: Nigeria
• Macedonian: Ниге́рија (mk) f (Nigérija)
• Malay: Nigeria
• Maltese: in-Niġerja
• Maori: Ngāitiria
• Meru: Nigeria
• Mongolian: Нигери (Nigeri)
• Norman: Nigérie f
• Norwegian: Nigeria (no)
• Persian: نیجریه‏‎ (nijeriye)
• Polish: Nigeria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Nigéria (pt) f
• Romanian: Nigeria (ro) f
• Russian: Ниге́рия (ru) f (Nigérija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нигерија f

  Roman: Nigerija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: නයිජීරියාව (nayijīriyāva)
• Slovak: Nigéria (sk) f
• Slovene: Nigerija (sl) f
• Spanish: Nigeria (es) f
• Swahili: Nijeria (sw)
• Swedish: Nigeria (sv)
• Tagalog: Niheriya
• Tajik: Ниҷерия (Nijeriya)
• Tatar: Нигерия (Nigeriya)
• Thai: ไนจีเรีย (th) (nai-jii-riia)
• Tigrinya: ናይጂሪያ (nayǧiriya)
• Turkish: Nijerya (tr)
• Turkmen: Nigeriýa
• Ukrainian: Ніге́рія (uk) f (Nihérija)
• Urdu: نائجیریا‏‎ (nā'ijīriyā)
• Uzbek: Nigeriya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ni-giê-ri-a
• Yiddish: ניגעריע‏‎ (nigerye)
• Yoruba: Nàìjíríà

See alsoEdit

• Abuja
• Countries of the world

Further readingEdit

• Nigeria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nigeria on the Simple English Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^simple

AnagramsEdit

• Igraine

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FinnishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

1. Nigeria

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of Nigeria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Nigeria	—
genitive		Nigerian	—
partitive		Nigeriaa	—
illative		Nigeriaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Nigeria	—
accusative	nom.	Nigeria	—
	gen.	Nigerian
genitive		Nigerian	—
partitive		Nigeriaa	—
inessive		Nigeriassa	—
elative		Nigeriasta	—
illative		Nigeriaan	—
adessive		Nigerialla	—
ablative		Nigerialta	—
allative		Nigerialle	—
essive		Nigeriana	—
translative		Nigeriaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Nigeriatta	—
comitative		—	—

Derived termsEdit

• nigerialainen

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English Nigeria

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

1. Nigeria

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria n (genitive Nigerias)

1. Nigeria

Derived termsEdit

• Nigerianer
• Nigerianerin
• nigerianisch

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ItalianEdit

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria f

1. Nigeria

Related termsEdit

• nigeriano

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LatinEdit

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria f (genitive Nigeriae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Nigeria

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Nigeria
genitive	Nigeriae
dative	Nigeriae
accusative	Nigeriam
ablative	Nigeriā
vocative	Nigeria

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

1. Nigeria

Related termsEdit

• nigerianer
• nigeriansk

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

1. Nigeria

Related termsEdit

• nigerianar
• nigeriansk

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɲiˈɡɛrja/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria f

1. Nigeria

DeclensionEdit

declension of Nigeria

	singular
nominative	Nigeria
genitive	Nigerii
dative	Nigerii
accusative	Nigerię
instrumental	Nigerią
locative	Nigerii
vocative	Nigerio

Derived termsEdit

• Nigeryjczyk m, Nigeryjka f
• adjective: nigeryjski

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SpanishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria f

1. Nigeria

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SwedishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

1. Nigeria