cigar

See also cigār, and čigar

English

Cigar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Four cigars

Etymology

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; perhaps from cigarra (“cicada”) or from Mayan [[sicar#Template:myn|sicar]] (“to smoke tobacco leaves”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

cigar (plural cigars)

1. Tobacco, rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 3, The Younger Set^[1]:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; … .

Synonyms

• stogie

Translations

tobacco

• Arabic: سيجار (ar) (sijaar, sigaar) m, سيكار (ar) (sikaar) m
• Armenian: սիգար (hy) (sigar) 
• Azeri: siqar (az)
• Bulgarian: пура (bg) f (pura)
• Catalan: cigar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪茄 (cmn) (xuějiā), 雪茄煙 (cmn), 雪茄烟 (cmn) (xuějiāyān)

• Czech: doutník (cs) m
• Danish: cigar (da) c
• Dutch: sigaar (nl) f
• Estonian: sigar (et)
• Faroese: sigar (fo) f, vindil (fo) m
• Finnish: sikari (fi)
• French: cigare (fr) m
• Georgian: სიგარა (ka) (sigara) 
• German: Zigarre (de) f
• Greek: πούρο (el) (poúro) n 
• Hebrew: סיגר (he) (sigar) m
• Hiligaynon: abáno
• Hungarian: szivar (hu)
• Icelandic: vindill (is) m
• Indonesian: cerutu (id)

• Irish: toitín (ga)
• Italian: sigaro (it) m
• Japanese: シガー (ja) (shigā), 葉巻 (ja) (はまき, hamaki), タバコ (ja) (tabako), 煙草 (ja) (たばこ, tabako)
• Macedonian: пура (mk) (pura) f
• Malay: cerut (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sigar (no) m

  Nynorsk: sigar (nn) m

• Polish: cygaro (pl) n
• Portuguese: charuto (pt) m
• Romanian: trabuc (ro) n
• Russian: сигара (ru) (sigára) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: siogàr (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: cigara (sh) f
• Slovene: cigara (sl) f
• Spanish: puro (es) m, cigarro (es) m
• Swedish: cigarr (sv)
• Tagalog: abano, tabako
• Taos: pùru’úna
• Telugu: చుట్ట (chuTTa)
• Turkish: puro (tr), cigar (tr)
• Volapük: zigar (vo)

See also

• cheroot
• cigarette
• cigarillo
• pink cigar

Anagrams

• Craig

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Noun

cigar m (plural cigars)

1. cigar

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From Spanish cigarro.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /siɡaːr/, [siˈɡ̊ɑːˀ]

Noun

cigar c (singular definite cigaren, plural indefinite cigarer)

1. cigar

Inflection

    Inflection of cigar

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	cigar	cigaren	cigarer	cigarerne
genitive	cigars	cigarens	cigarers	cigarernes