cigar

See also: cigār and čigar

English

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Four cigars

Etymology

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Noun

cigar (plural cigars)

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

Synonyms

• stogie

Derived terms

• 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 just a cigar

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सिगार (sigār)

  Urdu: سگار (sigār)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਗਾਰ (sigār)

  Shahmukhi script: سگار (sigār)

• → Thai: ซิการ์ (sí-gâa)
• → Welsh: sigâr
• → Yoruba: sìgá

Translations

tobacco product

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

  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) (curuṭ)
• Hungarian: szivar (hu)
• Hunsrik: Scharutt m
• Icelandic: vindill (is) m
• Ido: sigaro (io)
• Indonesian: cerutu (id)
• Irish: toitín (ga)
• Italian: sigaro (it) m
• Japanese: シガー (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), 려송연(呂宋煙) (ryeosong'yeon) (North Korea), 시가 (ko) (siga), 엽궐련(葉卷煙) (ko) (yeopgwollyeon), 잎궐련 (ipgwollyeon)
• 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
• Maori: hikā, tikā
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сигар (sigar)

• Northern Sami: sigára
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sigar m

  Nynorsk: sigar m

• Persian: سیگار برگ (fa) (sigâr-e barg), سیگار (fa) (sigâr)
• Piedmontese: sigala f
• Polish: cygaro (pl) n
• Portuguese: charuto (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਿਗਾਰ (pa) m (sigār)
• Romanian: trabuc (ro) n, țigară de foi (ro) f
• Romansch: cigara f
• Russian: сига́ра (ru) f (sigára)
• Scottish Gaelic: siogàr m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цига́ра f

  Roman: cigára (sh) f

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

  Upper Sorbian: cigara f

• Spanish: puro (es) m, cigarro (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: sigara
• Swedish: cigarr (sv)
• Tagalog: abano (tl), tabako
• Tajik: сигор (tg) (sigor) (also cigarette)
• Taos: pùruʼúna
• Telugu: చుట్ట (te) (cuṭṭa)
• Thai: ซิการ์ (th) (sí-gâa)
• Turkish: puro (tr), sigar (tr)
• Turkmen: sigara
• Ukrainian: сига́ра f (syhára)
• Urdu: سگار 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
• cigarette
• cigarillo

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]

Noun

cigar m (plural cigars)

1. cigar

Derived terms

• cigarrer
• cigarret

Further reading

• “cigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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