Niger
n. 尼日尔 [化] 皂脚
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释义与例句
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1.
A country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria. Official name: Republic of the Niger.
尼日尔
尼日
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A major river in West Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.
尼日尔河
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3.
A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Minna.
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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”). 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.
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