cigarro
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.
Pronunciation
Noun
cigarro m (plural cigarros)
Further reading
- “cigarro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “cigarro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Interlingua
Noun
cigarro (plural cigarros)
Related terms
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (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.[1][2]
Noun
cigarro m (plural cigarros)
Derived terms
- cigarreiro
- cigarrinho
- cigarro eletrônico
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From cigarra.
Noun
cigarro m (plural cigarros)
Etymology 3
Verb
cigarro
- first-person singular present indicative of cigarrar
References
- ^ “cigarro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- ^ “cigarro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain,[1] or from a Mayan language, compare Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sik'ar (“to smoke”).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θiˈɡaro/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ro] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /siˈɡaro/ [siˈɣ̞a.ro] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aro
- Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rro
Noun
cigarro m (plural cigarros)
Derived terms
- cigarrillo (diminutive)
- cigarrito (diminutive)
- cigarro de papel
Descendants
Descendants
- → Catalan: cigar, cigarro
- → Danish: cigar
- → English: cigar
- → French: cigare
- → 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
References
Further reading
- “cigarro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024