Nigeria

See also: Nigéria, Nígería, and Nigèria

EnglishEdit

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

Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

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)
Azerbaijani: 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
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 (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)
Pashto: نايجېريا‎‎ f (nāyǰeryã)
Persian: نیجریه‎‎ (nijeriye)
Polish: Nigeria (pl) f
Portuguese: Nigéria (pt) f
Romanian: Nigeria (ro) f
Russian: Ниге́рия (ru) f (Nigérija)
Scots: Nigerie
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)
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)
Urdu: نائجیریا‎‎ (nā'ijīriyā)
Uyghur: نىگېرىيە‎‎ (nigëriye)
Uzbek: Nigeriya (uz)
Vietnamese: Ni-giê-ri-a
Yiddish: ניגעריע‎‎ (nigerye)
Yoruba: Nàìjíríà

AnagramsEdit

Igraine

FinnishEdit

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Nigeria

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Proper nounEdit

Nigeria

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	—
accusative	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		—	—