cigarro

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [siˈɣa.ru]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [siˈɣa.ro]

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

1. Alternative form of cigar
2. (colloquial) cigarette

   Synonyms: cigarret, cigarreta

Further reading

• “cigarro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cigarro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Interlingua

Noun

cigarro (plural cigarros)

1. cigar

Related terms

• cigarretta

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.hu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.hu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.χu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁo/ [siˈɡa.ho]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɣa.ʁu]

• Rhymes: -aʁu
• Hyphenation: ci‧gar‧ro

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

cigarro

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

1. cigarette

Related terms

• cigarreiro, cigarrilha, cigarrilho

Etymology 2

From cigarra.

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

1. (Madeira) locust

Etymology 3

Verb

cigarro

1. first-person singular present indicative of cigarrar

Spanish

Cuatro cigarros.

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain, or from a Mayan language, compare Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sik'ar (“to smoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiˈɡaro/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ro]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siˈɡaro/ [siˈɣ̞a.ro]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rro

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

1. cigar

   Synonym: puro

2. cigarette

Derived terms

• cigarrillo (diminutive)
• cigarrito (diminutive)
• cigarro de papel

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: cigar, cigarro
• → Danish: cigar
• → English: cigar
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: सिगार (sigār)

    Urdu: سگار (sigār)

  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਗਾਰ (sigār)

    Shahmukhi script: سگار (sigār)

  • → Thai: ซิการ์ (sí-gâa)
  • → Welsh: sigâr
  • → Yoruba: sìgá
• → French: cigare
  • → Dutch: sigaar
  • → German: Cigarr (obsolete)
  • → Russian: сигара (sigara)
    • → Armenian: սիգար (sigar)
• → German: Cigarro (obsolete)
  • ⇒ German: Zigarre (via the plural)
• → Estonian: sigar
• → Faroese: sigar
• → Italian: sigaro
• → Norwegian Bokmål: sigar
• → Ottoman Turkish: سیغاره (sigara)
  • Turkish: sigara
• → Portuguese: cigarro
• → Sicilian: sicarru

Further reading

• “cigarro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014