cigarro

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

Pronunciation

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. alternative form of cigar
  2. (colloquial) cigarette
    Synonyms: cigarret, cigarreta

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

cigarro (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar

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)

  1. cigarette
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Kabuverdianu: sigaru
  • Tetum: sigaru

Etymology 2

From cigarra.

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. (Madeira) locust

Etymology 3

Verb

cigarro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cigarrar

References

  1. ^ cigarro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032025
  2. ^ cigarro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082025

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)

  1. cigar
    Synonym: puro
  2. cigarette

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Roberto Ignacio Díaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature (2002), page 169
  2. ^ Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish (2007, edited by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries), pages 67-68

Further reading