cigarette

English

a cigarette in an ashtray

Alternative forms

• cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)

Etymology

Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette

Noun

cigarette (plural cigarettes)

1. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.

   • 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 20:

     Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.

Synonyms

Related terms

• cancerette
• cancer stick
• cig
• ciggy
• rig (Canada)
• stick (Canada)
• coffin nail
• darb, durry (Sydney, Australia)
• dart, durben, smoke, rolly (Australia)
• death stick
• fag (UK)
• gaf (butcher’s slang)
• neen (Sydney Australian larrikins)
• straight, straighter
• tab
• smoke, stoag stoagie, boagie (US)
• square (US-slang)
• zig-zag (US-slang)

• See also Thesaurus:cigarette

Derived terms

Terms derived from cigarette

• cigarette beetle
• cigarette boat
• cigarette card
• cigarette case
• cigarette girl
• cigarette holder
• cigaretteless
• cigarette lighter
• cigarettelike
• cigarette machine
• cigarette pants
• cigarette paper

Descendants

• → Welsh: sigarét

Translations

cigarette

• Afrikaans: sigaret
• Albanian: cigare (sq) f
• Amharic: ሲጃራ (siǧara), ሲጋራ (sigara)
• Arabic: سِيجَارَة f (sījāra)

  Moroccan: ݣرو (garro)

• Armenian: ծխախոտ (hy) (cxaxot), սիգարետ (hy) (sigaret)
• Assamese: চিগাৰেট (sigaret)
• Azerbaijani: papiros, siqaret
• Bashkir: тәмәке (təməke)
• Belarusian: цыгарэ́та f (cyharéta), папяро́са f (papjarósa)
• Bengali: সিগারেট (śigareṭ)
• Brunei Malay: sigup
• Bulgarian: цига́ра (bg) f (cigára)
• Burmese: စီးကရက် (my) (ci:ka.rak), စီးကလိပ် (ci:ka.lip)
• Catalan: cigarret (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 煙仔／烟仔 (jin¹ zai²), 烟仔 (jin¹ zai²), 煙／烟 (jin¹), 烟 (jin¹), 香煙／香烟 (hoeng¹ jin¹), 香烟 (hoeng¹ jin¹)

  Dungan: янбонбонзы (i͡anbonbonzɨ), янбонбор (i͡anbonbor), янбонбон (i͡anbonbon)

  Hakka: 煙仔／烟仔, 菸仔／烟仔, 烟仔 (yan¹ zai³)

  Mandarin: 香煙／香烟 (zh) (xiāngyān), 香烟 (zh) (xiāngyān), 紙煙／纸烟 (zh) (zhǐyān), 纸烟 (zh) (zhǐyān), 捲煙／卷烟 (zh) (juǎnyān), 卷烟 (zh) (juǎnyān), 煙／烟 (zh) (yān), 烟 (zh) (yān) , 煙捲兒／烟卷儿 (zh) (yānjuǎnr), 烟卷儿 (zh) (yānjuǎnr) (colloquial)

  Min Dong: 薰囝 (hŏng-giāng), ^{(please verify)} 紙薰／纸薰, ^{(please verify)} 纸薰 (cāi-hŏng)

  Min Nan: 薰枝 (hun-ki), 薰 (zh-min-nan) (hun)

  Wu: 香煙／香烟, 香烟 (xian i)

• Chuvash: сигарет (sigaret), пирус (pirus)
• Cornish: cigarik m
• Czech: cigareta (cs) f
• Danish: cigaret (da) c
• Dutch: sigaret (nl) m or f, saffiaantje
• Elfdalian: sigarett m
• Esperanto: cigaredo
• Estonian: sigaret, suits (et), sigarett, pabeross, tobi (slang)
• Faroese: sigarett f
• Finnish: savuke (fi), tupakka (fi)
• French: cigarette (fr) f
• Georgian: პაპიროსი (ṗaṗirosi), სიგარეტი (sigareṭi)
• German: Zigarette (de) f, Kippe (de) f (colloquial)
• Greek: τσιγάρο (el) n (tsigáro)
• Greenlandic: cigaretti, sikaritsi
• Gujarati: સિગારેટ (sigāreṭ)
• Hebrew: סִיגַרְיָה (he) f (sigárya)
• Hindi: सिगरेट (hi) m or f (sigreṭ), सिग्रेट m or f (sigreṭ), सुट्टा m (suṭṭā) (slang)
• Hungarian: cigaretta (hu)
• Hunsrik: Zicker f
• Icelandic: sígaretta (is) f, sígó f (colloquial)
• Ido: sigareto (io)
• Indonesian: rokok (id)
• Interlingua: cigaretta
• Irish: toitín (ga) m
• Isthmus Zapotec: gueza
• Italian: sigaretta (it) f
• Japanese: タバコ (ja) (tabako), 煙草 (ja) (たばこ, tabako), 紙巻き煙草 (かみまきたばこ, kamimaki tabako)
• Javanese: udut, udud (jv)
• Kannada: ಸಿಗರೆಟ್ (sigareṭ)
• Kazakh: темекі (kk) (temekı), сигарета (sigareta), мүштіксіз темекі (müştıksız temekı)
• Khmer: បារី (km) (baarəy)
• Korean: 담배 (ko) (dambae), 궐련 (ko) (gwollyeon), 연초 (ko) (yeoncho)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani: جگەرە (cgere)

• Kyrgyz: тамеки (ky) (tameki), сигарет (ky) (sigaret)
• Lao: ຢາສູບ (lo) (yā sūp), ບຸຫລີ່ (bu lī), ກອກຢາ (kǭk yā)
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• Latin: sigarellum n
• Latvian: cigarete f, papiross m
• Lithuanian: cigaretė f, papirosas m
• Luxembourgish: Zigarett f
• Macedonian: цигара f (cigara)
• Malay: rokok, sigaret
• Malayalam: സിഗരട്ട് (sigaraṭṭŭ)
• Maltese: sigaretti
• Manx: tudjeen m
• Marathi: सिगारेट (sigāreṭ)
• Mongolian: тамхи (mn) (tamxi), янжуур (mn) (janžuur)
• Nauruan: tebeke
• Nepali: सिगरेट (sigareṭ)
• Northern Sami: sigareahtta
• Norwegian: sigarett (no) m, sigg
• Oriya: ^{(please verify)} କାହାଲୀ (or) (kāhāli)
• Pashto: سګرېټ m (segréṭ)
• Persian: سیگار (fa) (sigâr), سیگارت (fa) (sigâret) (rare)
• Polish: papieros (pl) m
• Portuguese: cigarro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਿਗਰੇਟ (sigreṭ)
• Romanian: țigară (ro) f, țigaretă (ro) f
• Romansch: cigaretta f
• Russian: сигаре́та (ru) f (sigaréta), папиро́са (ru) f (papirósa), сига́рка (ru) f (sigárka)
• Rusyn: циґаре́тля f (cygarétlja)
• Sanskrit: तमाखुनालि f (tamākhunāli)
• Scottish Gaelic: toitean m, toiteag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цигарета f

  Roman: cigareta (sh) f

• Sinhalese: සිගරෙට්ටුව (sigareṭṭuwa)
• Slovak: cigareta (sk) f
• Slovene: cigareta (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: cigareta f

• Spanish: cigarrillo (es) m
• Swahili: sigara (sw)
• Swedish: cigarett (sv) c
• Tagalog: sigarilyo, yosi (tl)
• Tajik: сигарета (sigareta), тамоку (tamoku)
• Tamil: சிகரெட் (cikareṭ)
• Tatar: тәмәке (tt) (tämäke)
• Telugu: సిగరెట్టు (sigareṭṭu)
• Thai: ยาสูบ (th) (yaa-sùup), บุหรี่ (th) (bù-rìi)
• Tibetan: ཤོག་དྲིལ་དུ་བ (shog dril du ba), ཐ་མག (tha mag), བཞེས་ཐག (bzhes thag)
• Tigrinya: ሽጋራ (šəgara)
• Turkish: sigara (tr), çilim (tr)
• Turkmen: çilim, papiros
• Tuvan: таакпы (taakpı), папирос (papiros)
• Ukrainian: сигаре́та f (syharéta), цига́рка f (cyhárka), папіро́с m (papirós), папіро́са f (papirósa)
• Urdu: سگریٹ m or f (sigreṭ)
• Uyghur: سىگارت (sigart), تاماكا (tamaka)
• Uzbek: sigareta (uz), tutun (uz), sigaret
• Vietnamese: điếu thuốc lá, thuốc lá (vi)
• Volapük: zigarül (vo)
• Welsh: sigarét (cy) f
• Yiddish: פּאַפּיראָס (papiros)
• Yup'ik: kuingiq, melugkaq, puyurtaq, sapeq
• Zhuang: iencaej, iencaij, ien

Verb

1. (slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.

Could someone cigarette me?

See also

• cigar
• cigarillo
• nonmailable
• smoke

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French

Etymology

From cigare +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ɡa.ʁɛt/

• audio:

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Noun

cigarette f (plural cigarettes)

1. cigarette

Synonyms

• clope (colloquial)

Descendants

• Dutch: sigaret
• English: cigarette
• German: Zigarette

Further reading

• “cigarette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.