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cigarro

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cigarro m (plural cigarros)

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

Further reading

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Interlingua

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Noun

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cigarro (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar
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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.[1][2]

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cigarro

Noun

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cigarro m (plural cigarros)

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

Etymology 2

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From cigarra.

Noun

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cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. (Madeira) locust

Etymology 3

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Verb

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cigarro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cigarrar

References

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  1. ^ “cigarro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  2. ^ “cigarro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

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Cuatro cigarros.

Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θiˈɡaro/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ro]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈɡaro/ [siˈɣ̞a.ro]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aro
  • Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rro

Noun

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cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar
    Synonym: puro
  2. cigarette

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Descendants

References

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  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

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