# cigar
## English

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### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /sɪˈɡɑɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: ci‧gar

### Noun

cigar (plural cigars)
* 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.’
* (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

* → 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

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### 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: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [siˈɣar]

### Noun

cigar m (plural cigars)
* cigar

#### Derived terms

* cigarrer
* cigarret

### Further reading

* “cigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “cigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Etymology

From Spanish cigarro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siɡaːr/, [siˈɡ̊ɑːˀ]

### Noun

cigar c (singular definite cigaren, plural indefinite cigarer)
* cigar