cigar

See also: cigār and čigar

English

Four cigars

Etymology

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɡɑɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ci‧gar

Noun

cigar (plural cigars)

2. A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.

   Synonym: stogie

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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 ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

3. (slang) The penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• a cigar is a cigar, a cigar is just a cigar
• Bondi cigar
• cigalike
• cigar beetle (Lasioderma serricorne)
• cigar box
• cigar-box cedar (Cedrela spp.)
• cigar box guitar
• cigar box guitarist
• cigar-chomping
• cigar comb jelly (Beroe spp.)
• cigar cutter
• cigardom
• cigared
• cigaresque
• cigar fish (Decapterus punctatus)
• cigar flower (Cuphea ignea)
• cigarless
• cigar lighter
• cigarlike
• cigarmaker
• cigarmaking
• cigar minnow (Decapterus punctatus)
• cigar plant (Cuphea ignea)
• cigar shark (Isistius brasiliensis)
• cigar smoke, cigar-smoke
• cigar store Indian
• cigar tree (Catalpa spp.)
• cigar wrasse (Cheilio inermis)
• close, but no cigar, close but no cigar
• e-cigar
• electronic cigar
• newspaper cigar
• paper cigar
• pink cigar
• sometimes a cigar is a cigar, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

Related terms

• cigarette
• cigarillo

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सिगार (sigār)

  Urdu: سگار (sigār)

• → Japanese: シガー (shigā)
• → Korean: 시가 (siga)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਗਾਰ (sigār)

  Shahmukhi script: سگار (sigār)

• → Swahili: sigara
• → Thai: ซิการ์ (sí-gâa)
• → Unami: sikas (from the plural)
• → Welsh: sigâr
• → Yoruba: sìgá

Translations

rolled bundle of tobacco made for smoking

• Albanian: puro (sq) f
• Arabic: سِيجَار m (sījār), سِيجَار m (sījār), سِيكَار m (sīkār)
• Armenian: սիգար (hy) (sigar)
• Azerbaijani: siqar
• Belarusian: цыга́ра f (cyhára)
• Bengali: চুরুট (bn) (curuṭ)
• Bulgarian: пу́ра (bg) f (púra)
• Burmese: ဆေးလိပ် (my) (hce:lip), ဆေးပြင်းလိပ် (my) (hce:prang:lip)
• Catalan: cigar (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎪᎦᏍᏗ (gogasdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雪茄 (syut³ gaa¹ / syut³ kaa¹)

  Mandarin: 雪茄 (zh) (xuějiā), 雪茄煙 / 雪茄烟 (zh) (xuějiāyān)

• Czech: doutník (cs) m
• Danish: cigar (da) c
• Dutch: sigaar (nl) f
• Elfdalian: sigarr m
• Esperanto: cigaro
• Estonian: sigar
• Faroese: sigar f, vindil m
• Finnish: sikari (fi)
• French: cigare (fr) m
• Friulian: zigar m
• Georgian: სიგარა (ka) (sigara)
• German: Zigarre (de) f; Glimmstängel (de) m
• Greek: πούρο (el) n (poúro)
• Greenlandic: sikaaq
• Haitian Creole: siga
• Hebrew: סִיגָר (he) m (sigár)
• Hiligaynon: abáno
• Hindi: सिगार (hi) m (sigār), चुरुट (hi) m (curuṭ)
• Hungarian: szivar (hu)
• Hunsrik: Scharutt m
• Icelandic: vindill (is) m
• Ido: sigaro (io)
• Indonesian: cerutu (id), sigar (id)
• Irish: todóg (ga) f, toitín (ga) m
• 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)
• Kazakh: сигара (sigara)
• Khmer: បារីស៊ីហ្គា (baarəy siigiə), ស៊ីហ្គា (siigiə)
• Korean: 여송연(呂宋煙) (yeosong'yeon), (North Korea) 려송연(呂宋煙) (ryeosong'yeon), 시가 (ko) (siga), 엽궐련(葉卷煙) (ko) (yeopgwollyeon), 잎궐련 (ipgwollyeon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çirût (ku), cigare (ku), puro (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сигара (sigara)
• Lao: ກອກຢາ (kǭk yā)
• Latin: sigarum m
• Latvian: cigārs m
• Lithuanian: cigaras m
• Luxembourgish: Zigar f
• Macedonian: пура f (pura)
• Malay: cerut, cerutu
• Māori: hikā, tikā
• Marathi: सिगार f (sigār)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сигар (sigar)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sigar m

  Nynorsk: sigar m

• Pannonian Rusyn: циґар m (cigar)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: سیگارِ بَرْگ (fa) (sigâr-e barg), سیگار (fa) (sigâr)

• Piedmontese: sigala f
• Polish: cygaro (pl) n
• Portuguese: charuto (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸਿਗਾਰ (pa) m (sigār)

• Romanian: trabuc (ro) n, țigară de foi (ro) f
• Romansh: cigara f
• Russian: сига́ра (ru) f (sigára)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: sigára

• Scottish Gaelic: siogàr m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цига́ра (sh) f

  Latin: cigára (sh) f

• Sicilian: sicarru m
• Silesian: cygara f
• Slovak: cigara f
• Slovene: cigara (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: cigara f

• Spanish: cigarro (es) m, puro (es) m, (Americanism) sharuto (es) m, (cigar from Cuba) habano (es) m, veguero m, tagarnina f, (Americanism) túbano m, breva (es) f, (Colombia) calilla (es) f, chicote (es) m, (cigar from the Phillipines) trompetilla (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: sigara
• Swedish: cigarr (sv)
• Tagalog: abano (tl), tabako
• Tajik: сигор (tg) (sigor), сигара (tg) (sigara)
• Tamil: சுருட்டு (ta) (curuṭṭu)
• Taos: pùruʼúna
• Telugu: చుట్ట (te) (cuṭṭa)
• Thai: ซิการ์ (th) (sí-gâa)
• Turkish: puro (tr), sigara (tr)
• Turkmen: sigara
• Ukrainian: сига́ра f (syhára)
• Unami: sikas
• Urdu: سِگار m (sigār)
• Uyghur: سىگار (sigar)
• Uzbek: sigara (uz)
• Vietnamese: xì-gà
• Volapük: zigar (vo)
• Welsh: sigâr (cy)
• Yiddish: ציגאַר m (tsigar)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kwekwe (sw), ^{(please verify)} biri, ^{(please verify)} siga

See also

• cheroot

Further reading

• “cigar”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “cigar”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “cigar”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “cigar”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “cigar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cigar, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• Craig, craig, Graci, argic, Agric., agric.

Catalan

Alternative forms

• cigarro

Etymology

Originally a learned modification of cigarro in order to avoid the Spanish-appearing termination -arro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [siˈɣar]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

cigar m (plural cigars)

1. cigar

Derived terms

• cigarrer
• cigarret

Further reading

• “cigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Spanish cigarro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siɡaːr/, [siˈɡ̊ɑːˀ]

Noun

cigar c (singular definite cigaren, plural indefinite cigarer)

1. cigar

Inflection

Declension of cigar

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cigar	cigaren	cigarer	cigarerne
genitive	cigars	cigarens	cigarers	cigarernes