English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪˌlɛkˈtʃɹɑːnɪk ˈsɪɡɚˌɛt/
Noun
electronic cigarette (plural electronic cigarettes)
- A cylindrical battery-powered device that provides inhaled doses of nicotine by way of a vaporized solution.
- Synonyms: e-cig, e-cigarette, vape, vape pen, vapor pen
2015 January 18, Sally Satel, “Will the F.D.A. kill off e-cigs? [print version: International New York Times, 20 January 2015, p. 6]”, in The New York Times[1]:Electronic cigarettes, battery-powered devices that convert a solution of nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor that can be inhaled, or "vaped," have the potential to wean a vast number of smokers off cigarettes. […] The problem is, not enough smokers are switching to e-cigarettes, despite their relative safety – and understandably so. Smokers are barraged with news about inaccurate labeling, shoddy counterfeits and poorly made e-cigarettes that emit toxins and cancer-causing chemicals in vapor.
Translations
electronic cigarette
- Arabic: سِيجَارَة إِلِكْتْرُونِيَّة f (sigāra ʔiliktrōniyya)
- Armenian: էլեկտրոնային ծխախոտ (ēlektronayin cxaxot), էլեկտրոնային սիգարետ (ēlektronayin sigaret)
- Belarusian: электро́нная цыгарэ́та f (eljektrónnaja cyharéta)
- Bengali: বৈদ্যুতিন সিগারেট (bōiddutin śigareṭ)
- Bulgarian: електро́нна цига́ра f (elektrónna cigára)
- Catalan: cigarret electrònic m, cigarreta electrònica f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電子煙 / 电子烟 (zh) (diànzǐyān), 電子香煙 / 电子香烟 (diànzǐ xiāngyān)
- Czech: elektronická cigareta (cs) f
- Esperanto: e-cigaredo
- Estonian: elektrooniline sigaret (et)
- Finnish: sähkötupakka (fi), sähkösavuke (fi)
- French: cigarette électronique (fr) f, vapoteuse (fr) f
- Georgian: ელექტრული სიგარეტი (elekṭruli sigareṭi)
- German: elektrische Zigarette f, elektronische Zigarette f, E-Zigarette (de) f
- Greek: ηλεκτρονικό τσιγάρο n (ilektronikó tsigáro)
- Hebrew: סִיגַרְיָה אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִית (he) f (sigárya elektrónit)
- Hindi: इलेकट्रॉनिक सिगरेट m or f (ilekaṭrŏnik sigreṭ)
- Hungarian: elektronikus cigaretta (hu), e-cigaretta (hu)
- Icelandic: rafsígaretta f
- Indonesian: rokok elektronik, rokok elektrik
- Italian: sigaretta elettronica (it) f
- Japanese: 電子たばこ (でんしたばこ)
- Korean: 전자 담배 (jeonja dambae)
- Malay: rokok elektronik, e-rokok, vap
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цахилгаан тамхи (caxilgaan tamxi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: e-sigarett m
- Nynorsk: straumsigarett m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: سیگارِ اِلِکْتِرونیکی (sigâr-e elekteroniki)
- Polish: papieros elektroniczny (pl), e-papieros (pl)
- Portuguese: cigarro eletrônico (pt) m (Brazil), cigarro eletrónico m (Portugal)
- Romanian: țigară electronică f
- Russian: электро́нная сигаре́та (ru) f (elektrónnaja sigaréta), вейп (ru) m (vɛjp)
- Slovak: elektronická cigareta f
- Spanish: cigarrillo electrónico (es) m, cigarro electrónico m
- Swedish: e-cigarett (sv) c, elektronisk cigarett c
- Tagalog: dagisiking sigarilyo
- Thai: ยาสูบอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ (yaa-sùup-ì-lék-trɔɔ-nìk)
- Turkish: elektronik sigara, elektronik puro, e-sigara, e-puro
- Ukrainian: електро́нна сигаре́та f (elektrónna syharéta)
- Vietnamese: thuốc lá điện tử
- Welsh: e-sigarét (cy) f
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