Nigeria

See also: Nigéria, Nígería, Nigèria, and nigerià

English

Etymology

From Niger +‎ -ia, coined by British journalist Flora Shaw in 1897.

Pronunciation

• (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
• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Nigeria

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

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Nigerian
• Niggeria (offensive)

Translations

a country in Western Africa

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

  Egyptian Arabic: نايجيريا‎

  Hijazi Arabic: نِيجِيرْيَا‎ f (nījīrya)

• Armenian: Նիգերիա (Nigeria)
• Azerbaijani: Nigeriya (az)
• Belarusian: Ніге́рыя f (Nihjéryja)
• Bengali: নাইজেরিয়া (bn) (naijeriẏa)
• Breton: Nigeria
• Bulgarian: Ниге́рия f (Nigérija)
• Burmese: နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယား (nuinggyi:ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Nigèria (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼日利亞 (zh), 尼日利亚 (zh) (Nírìlìyà), 奈及利亞 (zh), 奈及利亚 (zh) (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 (ka) (nigeria)
• German: Nigeria (de) n
• Greek: Νιγηρία (el) f (Nigiría)
• Hausa: Nijeriya, Najeriya
• Hawaiian: Naigeria
• Hebrew: נִיגֶרְיָה‎ (he) 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
• Italian: Nigeria (it) f
• Japanese: ナイジェリア (ja) (Naijeria)
• Kalenjin: Nijeria
• Kamba: Nijeria
• Kazakh: Нигерия (Nïgerïya)
• Khmer: នីហ្សេរីយ៉ា (km) (niizeeriiyaa)
• Kikuyu: Nigeria
• Korean: 나이지리아 (ko) (Naijiria), 나이제리아 (ko) (Naijeria) (North Korea)

• 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)
• Pashto: نايجېريا‎ f (nāyǰeryã)
• Persian: نیجریه‎ (nijeriye)
• Polish: Nigeria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Nigéria (pt) f
• Romanian: Nigeria (ro) f
• Russian: Ниге́рия (ru) f (Nigérija)
• Rusyn: Ніґе́рія f (Nigérija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нѝге̄рија f

  Roman: Nìgērija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: නයිජීරියාව (nayijīriyāwa)
• Slovak: Nigéria (sk) f
• Slovene: Nigerija (sl) f
• Spanish: Nigeria (es) f
• Swahili: Nigeria (sw)
• Swedish: Nigeria (sv) n
• Tagalog: Niheriya
• Tajik: Ниҷерия (Nijeriya)
• Tamil: நைஜீரியா (naijīriyā)
• Tatar: Нигерия (Nigeriya)
• Thai: ไนจีเรีย (th) (nai-jii-riia)
• Tibetan: ནི་ཇི་རི་ཡ (ni ji ri ya)
• Tigrinya: ናይጂሪያ (nayǧiriya)
• Turkish: Nijerya (tr)
• Turkmen: Nigeriýa
• Ukrainian: Ніге́рія (uk) f (Nihérija), Ніґе́рія f (Nigérija)
• Urdu: نائجیریا‎ (nā'ijīriyā)
• Uyghur: نىگېرىيە‎ (nigëriye)
• Uzbek: Nigeriya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ni-giê-ri-a
• Yiddish: ניגעריע‎ (nigerye)
• Yoruba: Nàìjíríà

See also

• Abuja
• 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) [edit]}

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Igraine

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Nigeria

1. Nigeria (a country in Africa)

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Finnish

Proper noun

Nigeria

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Declension

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		—	—

Possessive forms of Nigeria (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Nigeriani	Nigeriamme
2nd person	Nigeriasi	Nigerianne
3rd person	Nigeriansa

Derived terms

• nigerialainen

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French

Alternative forms

• Nigéria m (less common)
• Nigérie f (obsolete)

Etymology

From English Nigeria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.ʒɛ.ʁja/, /ni.ʒe.ʁja/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Nigeria m

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

   Synonym: République fédérale du Nigeria

Derived terms

• Nigérian, Nigériane
• nigérian, nigériane

See also

• Nigérien, Nigérienne
• nigérien, nigérienne

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈɡeːʁia/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Nigeria n (proper noun, genitive Nigerias or (optionally with an article) Nigeria)

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

   Synonym: Bundesrepubik Nigeria

Derived terms

• Nigerianer
• nigerianisch

See also

• Niger
• Nigrer
• nigrisch

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈd͡ʒɛ.rja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Hyphenation: Ni‧gè‧ria

Proper noun

Nigeria f

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• nigeriano

Anagrams

• Garinei

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Latin

Proper noun

Nigēria f sg (genitive Nigēriae); first declension

2. (New Latin) Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nigēria
Genitive	Nigēriae
Dative	Nigēriae
Accusative	Nigēriam
Ablative	Nigēriā
Vocative	Nigēria

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Nigeria

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• nigerianer
• nigeriansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Nigeria

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• nigerianar
• nigeriansk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲiˈɡɛ.rja/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Syllabification: Ni‧ge‧ria

Proper noun

Nigeria f

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Declension of Nigeria

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

Derived terms

nouns

• Nigeryjczyk
• Nigeryjka

 

adjective

• nigeryjski

 

Further reading

• Nigeria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Nigeria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈxeɾja/, [niˈxe.ɾja]
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ge‧ria

• Audio

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Proper noun

Nigeria f

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• nigeriano

Anagrams

• ingiera
• ingería

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Swahili

Alternative forms

• Nijeria

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Nigeria

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

• Mnigeria

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡeːrɪa/

Proper noun

Nigeria n (genitive Nigerias)

2. Nigeria (a country in West Africa)

Related terms

• nigerian
• nigeriansk
• nigerianska