# cigarette
## English
### Alternative forms

* cigaret (US spelling, rare, dated)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette

### Noun

cigarette (plural cigarettes)
* A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
** 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎:He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.
** 1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before? Patient: Um, what is it? Tobacconist: It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation. Patient: Infumation? Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it. Patient: What, like cigarettes? Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, called tobacco. Patient: But medicated? Tobacconist: Medicated? No. Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes? Tobacconist: That's right. Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they? Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you. Patient: Twenty a day? Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.
** 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:cigarette

#### Derived terms

* anticigarette
* cancerette
* cigalike
* cigarette beetle
* cigarette boat
* cigarette-boat
* cigarette burn
* cigarette camp
* cigarette card
* cigarette case
* cigarette deck
* cigarette end
* cigarette girl
* cigarette-holder
* cigarette holder
* cigaretteless
* cigarette lighter
* cigarettelike
* cigarette machine
* cigarette pants
* cigarette paper
* cigarette pastry
* cigarettism
* cigarettist
* cigaretty
* electronic cigarette (e-cigarette)
* jazz cigarette
* left-handed cigarette
* menthol cigarette
* niggerette
* noncigarette
* Russian cigarette
* straight cigarette

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: চিগাৰেট (sigaret)
* → Bengali: সিগারেট (śigareṭ)
* → Burmese: စီးကရက် (ci:ka.rak), စီးကလိပ် (ci:ka.lip)
* → Malay: sigaret, سيݢاريت
* → Mon: ၜံက်သဳဂါရိတ်, သဳဂါရိတ်
* → Gujarati: સિગારેટ (sigāreṭ)
* → Hindi: सिगरेट (sigreṭ)
* → Niuean: hikaleti
* → Sinhalese: සිගරෙට්ටුව (sigareṭṭuwa)
* → Telugu: సిగరెట్టు (sigareṭṭu)
* → Urdu: سگریٹ (sigareṭ)
* → Welsh: sigarét

#### Translations
### Verb

cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)
* (transitive, slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.
    Could someone cigarette me?

### See also

* cigar
* cigarillo
* smoke

## French
### Etymology

From cigare +‎ -ette.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /si.ɡa.ʁɛt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cigarette f (plural cigarettes)
* cigarette
    Synonyms: clope, sèche, garo
    Hyponyms: Gitane, Gauloise
    Meronyms: filtre, papier, tabac

#### Derived terms

* cigarette électronique
* cigarettier
* fume-cigarette

#### Descendants

* → Belarusian: цыгарэта (cyhareta)
* → Catalan: cigarret
* → Danish: cigaret
* → Dutch: sigaret (see there for further descendants)
* → English: cigarette (see there for further descendants)
* → Georgian: სიგარეტი (sigareṭi)
* → German: Zigarette (see there for further descendants)
* → Italian: sigaretta (see there for further descendants)
* → Luxembourgish: Zigarett
* → Norwegian: sigarett
* → Pashto: سګرېټ (segréṭ)
* → Persian: سیگارت (sigâret)
* → Romansch: zigareta, cigaretta (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
* → Russian: сигарета (sigareta) (see there for further descendants)
* → Sicilian: sicaretta
* → Swedish: cigarett

#### See also

* allume-cigare
* allumette
* briquet
* cartouche
* cendrier
* fumée
* fumer
* fumeur
* mégot
* paquet
* rouler

### Further reading

* “cigarette” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* “cigarette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.